Graphics Programs Reference
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With this complex compound path prepared, McGarry placed his underwater JPG
image. Using the Layers panel he positioned his logo path above his placed image.
McGarry then selected both the logo and the image, then used -7/Ctrl-7 to make all
of his logo objects into a clipping group. Then he renamed the layer “logo masked.”
3 Assembling the objects and finishing touches.
To add finishing details, McGarry creat-
ed two more layers. On one layer (“speargun”) he put additional type; into the “board
edge” layer he moved a copy of board outline path (by holding Option/Alt while
dragging the object proxy to the new layer); and then increased the stroke weight. He
then created the light-to-dark edging around the board by applying a wood gradient
to the stroke (from Swatch Libraries> Gradients) and in the Gradient panel. He en-
abled the first Stroke option (Apply gradient within stroke), and adjusted the angle in
the field below to create the desired lighting effect. Finally, with the board edge out-
line still selected he chose the Draw Inside drawing mode to constrain his paint and
used a charcoal art brush (Window> Brush Libraries> Artistic> Artistic_ChalkChar-
coalPencil) to paint rough white streaks on the board surface (see the
Expressive
Strokes
chapter for more about how to do this). Finally, McGarry made sure that
Paste Remembers Layers was enabled (from the Layers panel pop-up menu), and
with both documents open, McGarry used drag and drop to move his logo into his
surfboard document, automatically adding the layer names as well. He positioned his
logo on top of the surfboard and resized it to fit.
3
The surfboard outline after adding white streaks and applying a
wood gradient to the edging path
