so for today's tutorial I drew inspiration from the design I saw online
to bring you a tutorial on how to place yourself in an 80s vector pattern we're
going to first make a patch in Adobe Illustrator and then we're going to
cross way with the Photoshop to show you how to cut yourself out of an image
professionally and then place it on a document for a 4k resolution so first in
Adobe Illustrator we want a large 4k document here too so take note or the
pixel dimensions that I'm using and use them for your design so here is our
canvas that we're gonna be working on today for an 80 star pattern design now
choose a bright or bold purple color in the color palette as a fill and then
press M for the rectangle tool
oh and also you won't activate your smart guides and here are my settings
that I'm using today the smart guides will show you when you are perfectly
positioned in the corner of the canvas
so cover the artboard and then send the rectangle to the back and lock it on a
place
keeping with the 80 star theme choose a bright and bold yellow color and then
press P for the pen tool we will carefully draw a segment like so using
the pen tool then select a bright and bold deep pink and then draw in another
segment with a pen tool to add to the 80s style design
later we're going to be tackling the halftone process as well as using
clipping mask and illustrator for parts of the design but for now and go ahead
and draw a straight line perfectly like so select off of the line and then press
C for the scissors tool and click to add an anchor point right here we can in
select the top section of this line and delete it as it's now two parts access
the pen tool again and continue drawing the line like so until you've made a
third shape for UAT star pattern select everything apart from the new shape by
holding down shift and then lock it down so essentially have the new triangle
only activated on your canvas I'm also going to add a white stroke to it so I
can easily see it on the design away and off off the canvas use the pen tool and
hold down shift to draw a perfectly straight line and then beef it up a bit
by increasing the stroke weight
hold down the alt/option key and duplicate this line once and then press
command or control D to repeat the process over and over again
outline the stroke of all the lines so they're turned from a vector stroke path
into a vector shape you want to add a deep dark purple to your set up lines
and actually I'm unlocking my design so it can change the leftmost shaped color
as I want it to match with the lines color in harmony you'll see what I mean
very shortly so if you're enjoying today's tutorial give the video a thumbs
up and also share on social media after you finish watching also I'm making
adjustments to the pink shape here and I'm adding an anchor point with this
tool so I can actually use a direct selection tool to manipulate the shape
further
now that I'm happy with the composition I will again lock everything apart from
the white line triangle select all of the lines and then open up the
Pathfinder window and use the unite in before rotating them slightly from here
flick the triangle from a stroke to a fill and then turn into a compound path
place a triangle over the set of lines and then select everything you can now
write or control-click the selection and use a clipping mask now you can overlay
this part the design onto your canvas
now we're going to make the half to an effect which represent the dots as you
can see on the far right the design so grab the ellipse tool with L on your
keyboard and then hold down shift and click and drag to make a circle add a
gradient fill and leave it as a black to white gradient for the gradient window
you should add a radial gradient and change it to the black areas inside the
middle then go through effect pixelate and choose color halftone in the new box
that appears the first top number is the size of your dots and the rest you need
to keep the same I'm gonna use ninety for my numerals and if like mine the
dots are too small go back and change the first number or you can do this in
the appearance panel this is actually now a bitmap rather than a vector so to
change that first go up to object image trace and make and then open up the
image trace window with the shape door selected
we want to ignore white and then click preview to see the changes now you don't
have to play around your settings but I've realized it's near enough
impossible to get all of the circles perfectly round the smaller ones can
become distorted I've actually looked online about the half-day method to
check if I'm doing something wrong but everybody else out there on YouTube has
said the same with this method but once you're happy go up to object
image trace and expand
then and group everything and delete the white background
if there is still white areas left over like so use the magic one tool to select
all black areas and then drag them off to the side
if you press command or control G on your keyboard
you're gonna group the selection together now use the eyedropper tool the
keyboard Shaka being eye on your keyboard and then sample the yellow
color from your design it's just a case of placing your dots on the 80 star
pattern where you feel they fit best and once you've done that grab the rectangle
tool and draw a box around the canvas carefully switch it to a fill and then
turn into a compound path select the box and the dots together and then varietal
ctrl click the selection and again create a clipping mask you can expand
and ungroup the dots so you can then delete the deform sections and draw in
your own circles manually depending on how well you move trace went now we're
going to move over to photoshop for the next part of this tutorial so here's a
picture of yours truly and try to snap a picture of yourself with a high-quality
resolution for maximum results because our design is going to be 4k remember so
create a new document of the 4k measurements and keep the color modes
RGB seeing as this is gonna be a web-based
graphic
back over to illustrator unlock your design and then select everything and
press command or control C to copy it
then you can paste it into Photoshop with command or control V we want to use
a smart object to maximize quality once you positioned it press ENTER and then
drag your image onto the 80 star pattern design there are many ways to cut out a
person from a background of Photoshop but today we're going to be using a
layer mask to ensure non-destructive workflow you will find the layer mask at
the bottom of the layers panel here you simply then press B for the brush tool
and then using a black color you can paint over the background you need to
take your time with this and at first use a large brush to remove most of the
background and then as you get closer to yourself an image use a smaller brush
with the soft setting if you make a mistake to switch the black to a white
and then paint over the areas that you want to add back in we're almost
finished with today's 80 star patterns tutorial and I've got one final touch to
add open the gradient slider here and create a gradient of a kind of peach
color to a vibrant pink
then create a new layer name is something like gradient you simply then
draw across the layer like so with the gradient tool duplicate this layer with
command or control J and then change the blend mode of one layer to screen and
change the other blend mode to overlay lower and adjust the pasty of these two
layers until you're happy with your design finally I've added some text that
I feel works best with an 80 star design you can check on the screen for the
funds in case you want to download them and use them for yourself so this has
been an 80 star pattern design tutorial which you can place yourself into
brought to you by Satori graphics so there is today's tutorial on the 80s
star pattern in a day of Illustrator what did you guys think of today's video
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