2 Replies Latest reply: Jun 25, 2012 12:51 PM by mhossey RSS

    Offset Path Leaving Undesired Result

    mhossey Community Member

      CS5

      Mac

       

      The logo you see at the top picture has been made a compound path, this is how the logo normally looks. The bottom logo, is a duplicate of the top with the offset path applied. I am essentially wanting to add a silver shine around the edges by adding 1 px borders using the offset path method, using the stroke option leaves it a little funky so this is why I opted for this method.

       

      Once I use the offset path on my logo it comes out as a big black object instead of keeping the grunge detail, how do I fix this. Joins is Miter, and limit is 4. Let me know any info you need to help understand the problem more

       

      ThanksScreen Shot 2012-06-25 at 11.28.23 AM.png

        • 1. Re: Offset Path Leaving Undesired Result
          Mike Gondek2 Community Member

          That is because your grunge is a compound path. You would need to break the compound and fill the grunge with the background color. Then run offset path once for the black shapes, and a second time for the grunge.

           

          Are you sure you cannot accomplish the same with stroke? You can change the stroke to go outside\inside\center and also adjust the caps & joins. Should be able to recreate what offset path would do with strokes.

          • 2. Re: Offset Path Leaving Undesired Result
            mhossey Community Member

            The problem with a stroke is that I need to add gradients to each stroke, after I expand the stroke I need to run one fluid gradient across all of the strokes, as if the strokes were all grouped together, but AI wont let me group inside of groups, when I try to group the different strokes this is what It tells me.


            Walk me through it from this point:

            -I lay my grunge texture over the logo

            -opacity mask the grunge and logo

            -make logo compound path

             

            Where would I need to insert steps in my creative process to achieve what I'm looking for? Do I simply need to create my "metal shine" effect around the edges before I make the opacity mask with the grunge texture? Or is there another more simple way to do this

             

            Michael