Distressed or Cracked Effect on Vector Shapes

**Egg Bramhill** · 03 September 2009, 12:58 PM

Xcellent, any chance of reposting your tutorial, it's to small to read at present ;-)

**Xcellent** · 03 September 2009, 01:13 PM

Egg, that's why i posted the .xar, it's all in there

**Egg Bramhill** · 03 September 2009, 01:41 PM

Stupid me, I didn't see the xar attachment

**Su Lawrence** · 03 September 2009, 05:24 PM

Gary: Your 'distressed G' looked familiar to me so I had a quick search round out of curiosity.

I couldn't find a specific tutorial for it either, but found this image/effect in a few TG threads from Feb 2002 ... Which I think was just after the original glazed/crackled effect tutorial you did in the XXone.

Simple Corroded Copper Effect Tutorial
Rust and peeling crackled paint
Rusty Wallpaper Challenge - Continued

Regards

Su

**ivan louette** · 04 September 2009, 02:16 PM

Old but remains of actuality :

http://talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=6003

http://talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=9898

http://talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=14110

kindly,

ivan

**Holger** · 15 October 2009, 01:41 PM

Perfect ideas, especially the tut and brush by Xcellent brought me to the grunge universe immediately. thanks a lot.

**masque** · 16 October 2009, 01:26 PM

A quick attempt at distressed text. Three different ways.
Derek

**Albacore** · 17 October 2009, 10:04 AM

I am a lazy person! Why not use a distressed font there are now just a bout a thousand out there now?

**Holger** · 17 October 2009, 11:38 AM

Oh my god! If you would not be a mod, they already would have killed you.
to tell this in a forum where people just reinvent everything, that is already inventeted for thousands of years, but not done yet in Xara.
use a font - huh! what kind of horseplay is that?
it must be done with nearly 25 steps, each one very difficult and tricky, overusing hard- and software every minute.
and - most important thing - it must convince everybody's wife, that five additonally hours in front of the PC are abolutely unavoidable. as a minimum - and right now!

**masque** · 17 October 2009, 12:35 PM

The question was, how to make a "vector shape" distressed, with a font as an example of the sort of effect. Using a distressed font is fine if its text you are looking to distress.
Also its not unreasonable for people to discuss how to do it in Xtreme given that this is the Xtreme forum and thats what most people coming here are interested in reading and learning about.
Derek