Working with Effects in Illy

[3Deep]

Got a question here, I did this before but for the life of me I can't remember how I did it, I'm using an effect in Illy on a pc of art the texture effect, how do I get that effect to print as a vector from illy alone with the rest of the art maybe expand it? or do i need to take the whole pc into photoshop which I think I had to do before. I'm posting a pic and the art that is the texture effect is the green and white everything else is spot colors.

[Doug S]

Taking it into PS is the only way I've ever been able to do it but I'm interested also if someone else has a different solution.

[zanegun08]

Not sure what effect you used, but if you are able to assign a spot color to the effect, it can typically be output straight from illustrator.

I do this with outer glows for neon effects often, but you need to be able to assign a spot color.

It looks like you did a textured effect in the grass, so you could take that into photoshop and make a bitmap overlay and use the rest of the image from illustrator just with the texture overlay.

[Sbrem]

This is what I would do to; you could save the texture as either a grayscale or bitmap tiff, and import it into Illy, and you are able to use any of the colors in your pallet on it.

Steve

[3Deep]

Ok I'll try those ideas, but I created the effect in Illy to start with, so I may have to take into photoshop and save it then bounce back to Illy.