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1. Re: Offset Path Leaving Undesired Result
Mike Gondek2 Jun 25, 2012 10:27 AM (in response to mhossey)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.
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2. Re: Offset Path Leaving Undesired Result
mhossey Jun 25, 2012 12:51 PM (in response to Mike Gondek2)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


