How to Add Live and Editable Grain Texture to Objects and Gradients in Adobe Illustrator

Whether you refer to adding analog style textures to your work in Adobe Illustrator as noise, grain, stipple or mezzotint, this video demonstrates our quick and easy method for converting clean vector shapes and gradients into more aged, vintage looking, chunky dot patterns. And the best part is that everything stays live and editable in Illustrator, so you can continue to edit your work even after the textures are applied!
You can learn more of our tips and techniques from our online tutorials on Skillshare here: skl.sh/dkng_sk

[@Shadow-Violet]

Thank you sm! ive been looking for this exact effect for such a long time.

[@SSjx3lw]

You have no idea how many tutorials I sifted through to find one clear and purposeful like this.

[@DKNGstudio]

That means a lot! We will def make more.

[@sajithkumara3308]

We need your full course in skillshare. Thank you.

[@adamstuartclark]

Clear explanations are worth their weight in gold. Great tutorial.

[@DKNGstudio]

Glad you think so!

[@donclkm8919]

More tutorials from you guys. Great work like always.

[@DKNGstudio]

More to come!

[@dannyblessinger7428]

Oh my God I guess this is my new favorite channel. Thank you so much.

[@DKNGstudio]

Wow, thank you!

[@johnsoreilly]

thanks for sharing!!!

[@DKNGstudio]

My pleasure!!

[@MACH_SDQ]

Very good thanks !!!!!

[@DKNGstudio]

Thank you too!

[@CatalinGulan]

First time in your channel..but guess what..You got another subscriber.😀 Thank you for sharing.

[@DKNGstudio]

Thanks for subbing!

[@doggonestudios]

And I'm still sitting over here with 100 hard mix layers in photoshop 🤣 This is awesome, thank you!!

[@DKNGstudio]

Happy to help!

[@stefanbogner6237]

I could follow this quite easily. Some follow up questions still remain. In your video it seems as if the texture is much finer than in my document. Can I somehow influence the appearance, meaning how fine the pixels are shown? Secondly: is there a follow up tutorial on how to apply the texture onto more complex forms like in your poster at the beginning? THANK YOU for this tutoria though, great help.

[@stefanbogner6237]

And as always, I stumbled over the answer by accident. It seems to be in the Effects-Dropdown, must be something like "Document Grid Preferences" (I use german as app language). There you can use different DPI numbers. Maybe this helps other...

[@DKNGstudio]

That's the answer! The Document Raster Settings need to be higher. We just released a new Editable Texture Download that allows for smooth chunky dots like this at a high 300 ppi resolution. Check it out here: www.dkngstudios.com/store/mezzo-editable-grain-textures

[@tonymontana7100]

I Just subscribed

[@DKNGstudio]

Thank you!

[@MatthewCallaghan-nd6lv]

Is there a way to make this work in Affinity Designer?

[@DKNGstudio]

Good question! I’m not familiar with affinity designer though.

[@thedevilwearspandas]

Whenever I try this, the dots don't seem to turn out quite as fine. Anyone have an idea why that is?

[@DKNGstudio]

Make sure your view setting in Illustrator are on "Preview" and your document raster settings are at 300 ppi