March 2012 Xara Vector Grunge Effects by iamtheblues Guest Tips and Trick Tutorial

**avalon** · 17 March 2012, 01:10 AM

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Some grunge...reduced in size.

**wizard509** · 17 March 2012, 03:09 PM

Gare I like your grunge logo. That's pretty neat.

**Gare** · 17 March 2012, 03:22 PM

Thanks, Larry.

Hey, I arrived at an interesting, large, almost sponge-like piece of "grunge". It sort of looks like an old school composition book cover.

Here is is for anyone to play with, attached.

You can make a logo or something and clip it to this shape.

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My Best,

Gary

**wizard509** · 17 March 2012, 07:44 PM

Originally Posted by Gare

My Best,

Gary

That gives your shape almost a cork, or Swiss cheese look. Cool!

**angelize** · 17 March 2012, 08:25 PM

I played with your composition book file and well... Grunge can be pretty!

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**handrawn** · 17 March 2012, 10:02 PM

great

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Bob.. thanks !

**iamtheblues** · 20 March 2012, 02:45 PM

A bit late getting back to all the comments. Memory problems (PC not me!) and decorating the study preventing me getting access to the PC, plus a Super Saturday of rugby. Anyway, I'm pleased to see that you all enjoyed the tutorial. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Gare for giving the tutorial the extra zip that my original was lacking with his skillful editing.
I have attached a variation on the theme, where I used a bitmap fill of some grunge and vectorized that. The font I chose is Letterhead Fonts (LHF) Becker Rounded. Not free, I'm sorry to say, but I'm a big fan of their fonts (see here). What I like about this grunge method is that it is possible to make changes to different instances of the same letter to give the lettering more variety.
Bob.