today we're going to be making some really cool water colour designs that
are going to be vectorized I'm gonna take you on a journey from making the
watercolors on paper to vectorizing them in Adobe Illustrator and finally
overlaying those vectors on your typography and logo designs that's
coming right up here at Satori graphics
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to me having a cold so I apologize in advance for that before we kick off
today's tutorial on making watercolor vector designs in Adobe Illustrator I
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now how to vectorize watercolors poor logo and typography designs in adobe
illustrator so the first stage in today's watercolor vector tutorial in
Illustrator is pretty straightforward grab some paint some water a brush and
some paper you can experiment with different amounts of water and paint and
see what colors blend well together the trick is to get some good solid brush
strokes and gradients down on paper I rushed this stage a bit so I'm simply
showing you guys how to make watercolor vectors and typography but you should
take your time making sure you have some interesting and beautiful watercolor
samples the next step in today's water color better tutorial it's it takes some
high quality images with a decent camera I would advise using a flash on your
pitches because the paper needs to be as white as possible around the watercolor
design as you can see I haven't paid close
attention to making sure the paper is crisp and white all around but we can
fix that in Photoshop so open up your designs in Photoshop and play around
with things such as exposure brightness and also hue in saturation the idea is
to get the watercolor popping off your paper with a white surrounding air once
you've edited your watercolor images save them as JPEGs and then open them up
in Illustrator
because we're turning the watercolor designs into vectors we want to downsize
image so you complete two dozen end up working super slow this next step will
put your machine brew some serious exercise that's for sure open up the
image trace window illustrator and with the water color selected choose color
and then choose full tone
I like to use the ignore words option which will make sure that anyway on your
image is not going to be vectorized and then click preview I've sped up things
for the purposes of today's tutorial because it might take a while for this
to process as you can see my multicolored image is now made up of
lots of different individual vector shapes once you're happy kerbs object
image trace and expand
again this may take a while to process but once it's finished you've created
some multicolored vectors in Illustrator
you'll probably want to ungroup everything and then delete unwanted
areas if you are better than me at taking the initial images of the
watercolors you have an easier job on your hands but delete aspects of the
images that you don't want only leaving the watercolor vector so once you have a
watercolor vector sample you will need to locate the pathfinder window which is
here in the toolbar or you can find it the top drop-down menu motor the layers
together of your watercolor vectors like so which as before it might take a long
time to complete
you can then bring it over to your typography or your logo designs
but make sure your typography or logo is united in the Pathfinder window and that
has been brought to the front of all layers
once you've done that with the typography selected go to object and
compound path and then make finally select both typography and the
watercolor vectors and create a clipping mask like so and there you have it some
watercolor vector typography as a vector design illustrator so there was my
tutorial how to vectorize watercolors in adobe illustrator to use over the top of
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