: Giving a light brown/fazed/grained effect to images in AI-CS5 (disorting/pixelization of images on purpose) In reverse engineering a letterhead, the actual image is as follows scanned as 300 dpi.
In reverse engineering a letterhead, the actual image is as follows scanned as 300 dpi.
This is what I have come up with.
It is achieved by placing high resolution images, drawing rectangles and creating a clipping mask.
As it comes with Clients, no matter how hard I explain that the new (bottom) is actually better than the old (top), my Client made it very clear that he needs for the images to be 100% (not the term he used, but "as close as you can get them to be to show us that we are paying the right guy" was the term actually used) indenticall.
I guess my question is how would I go about giving the images a fuzzy effect. I have already applied the "feather effect" to achieve the white-ish borders in AI-CS5.
Maybe it is the fault of the scanner. But a ideal solution would be is to give some kind of mask/filter (I don't know these terms, but they come around often in PS & AI) to give a indentical/same color effects to all the images.
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The reason the original looks fuzzy is because the original printout had the colors misaligned. The yellow channel is offset to the top-left. This can be recreated in Photoshop by converting the image to CMYK then selecting the Yellow channel and moving it slightly:
I'm 99% sure this is the result of a sloppy color registration, not a design decision. There was a recent question regarding misalignment as a style choice: Name for style of text logo where two colours overlap imperfectly?. However, this does not look like it was done for the style, it looks like an error.
I do not know of a way to achieve this effect in Illustrator. However, I would nix even trying to do so and explain to the client that your re-creation is how the print was intended to look.
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