To get rid of the gray areas we will make some changes to the levels. We want to have the ink splatters as black, and the paper as white so that it will allow us to create a splatter that can be used on any background. To start with, there are some gray areas that need to be made white. Here is a look at my image at this stage: Step 3: Clean Up the Image in PhotoshopĪs you can see from the image above, we have the splatter but it needs some work before it will be usable. Once the ink is completely dried, scan it at 300 DPI and open it in Photoshop. I allowed about 24 hours for the ink used in this tutorial to dry. Some types of ink are pretty thick, so be sure that you give it adequate time to dry before scanning, or else you can damage your scanner. Once you have a bunch of ink on the paper allow it to dry. You’ll probably want to do this several times to get a good amount of ink. Gather some ink in the tube or straw and splatter it on your paper. Your bottle of ink may come with a tube for dispensing the ink, or you can use a simple straw to collect the ink. You may want to put it on a table covered with newspaper, on your basement or garage floor, or somewhere that is protected from the ink splatters. Take a piece of paper (I’d recommend either photo paper or a heavy piece of white paper) and place it somewhere that can get a little bit messy. This is probably the most fun part, and it’s definitely the messiest. So as you can see it is not an overly complicated process, you just need some patience to let the ink dry and to complete the needed adjustments in Photoshop. Tracing the image and saving it as a vector file.In a moment we’ll be going over the specific steps and the details of each, but first, let’s take a look at the basic process: To improve your skills with Illustrator, see Learn Adobe Illustrator. Paper (photo paper or heavy white paper).A bottle of ink (I used black India ink from a craft shop).UNLIMITED DOWNLOADS: 50+ Million Add-Ons & Design AssetsĭOWNLOAD NOW Creating the Splatter Vector: Things You Will Need These splatter vectors are fun to create, and since the end result is in vector format it is highly versatile. Here is a preview of the final result of this tutorial.
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