Adobe Illustrator CS3 - Manual (Page 364)

ILLUSTRATOR CS3
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Rough Pastels Makes an image appear as if stroked with colored pastel chalk on a textured background. In areas of
bright color, the chalk appears thick with little texture; in darker areas, the chalk appears scraped off to reveal the
texture.
Smudge Stick Softens an image using short diagonal strokes to smudge or smear the darker areas of the images.
Lighter areas become brighter and lose detail.
Sponge Creates images with highly textured areas of contrasting color as if painted with a sponge.
Underpainting Paints the image on a textured background, and then paints the final image over it.
Watercolor Paints the image in a watercolor style, simplifying details and using a medium brush loaded with water
and color. Where significant tonal changes occur at edges, the filter saturates the color.
See also
“Effects and filters quick reference” on page 354
“Use texture and glass surface controls” on page 362
Blur filters and effects
The commands in the Blur submenu in the Effect menu are raster-based and use the document’s raster effects
settings whenever you apply the effect to a vector object.
Gaussian Blur Quickly blurs a selection by an adjustable amount. This filter removes high-frequency detail and can
produce a hazy effect.
Radial Blur Simulates the soft blur created by a zooming or rotating camera. Choose Spin to blur along concentric
circular lines, and then specify a degree of rotation; Zoom to blur along radial lines, as if zooming in or out of the
image, and specify an amount from 1 to 100. Blur quality ranges from Draft for the fastest but grainy results to Good
and Best for smoother results, which are indistinguishable except on a large selection. Specify the origin of the blur
by dragging the pattern in the Blur Center box.
See also
“Effects and filters quick reference” on page 354
Brush Strokes filters and effects
The Brush Strokes effects are raster-based and use the document’s raster effects settings whenever you apply the
effect to a vector object.
Accented Edges Accentuates the edges of an image. When the Edge Brightness control is set to a high value, the
accents resemble white chalk; when set to a low value, the accents resemble black ink.
Angled Strokes Repaints an image using diagonal strokes. The lighter areas of the image are painted in strokes going
in one direction, while the darker areas are painted in strokes going the opposite direction.
Crosshatch Preserves the details and features of the original image while adding texture and roughening the edges
of the colored areas in the image with simulated pencil hatching. The Strength option controls the number of
hatching passes (from 1 to 3).
Dark Strokes Paints dark areas of an image closer to black with short strokes, and paints lighter areas of the image
with long, white strokes.
Ink Outlines Redraws an image with fine narrow lines over the original details, in pen-and-ink style.