distressed text

**Egg Bramhill** · 14 July 2014, 08:15 PM

Never thought of using bitmap traces Albacore, in fact one of the only real-world uses for the trace I can think or. Here's one I made using a trace of a star-field to gain the distressed effect. Thank's for the idea

EDIT: Link to the star-field image used to create the distressed effect.

**gwpriester** · 14 July 2014, 09:12 PM

Mike - Need more help?

**mikerawlinson** · 14 July 2014, 09:33 PM

As always so many diff ways to do the same job ......Thank you for showing me how to do this ...... was really helpful.
I can now distress text and other things .

Mike

**iamtheblues** · 15 July 2014, 09:06 AM

Back in January this year I uploaded a vector wooden plank texture and this can be ungrouped into various shapes and if you select what you need and regroup them they can be placed over some text and and sliced to create a nice vector result.
Bob.