Custom Tina’s Question (36 Viewers)

[caballo993]

Been experimenting with creating my own inlays and chips in Illustrator. I was wondering how any of the designers in the community go about adding molds to their designs.

I’m mostly interested in hybrid molds, but I would also like to experiment with faux molds in the future. Any advice on either would be appreciated.

 

[slowplay]

Not a designer, but I always just outline the mold I am going for and drop it on top with decreased opacity:

With faux molds you'd need to do the same but for black & white

 

[Colquhoun]

In order for a faux mold to look authentic, it needs a shadow edge and a highlight edge around the mold art.
I originally made faux molds using Illustrator and making a thin offset for the highlight and a thin offset for the shadow. However, it was fairly labor intesive, and didn't produce great results.

I am now using Photoshop to make faux molds, it is SO much better at beveling and embossing, and I can tweak the values exatly how I like them on the fly. I place the psd file over the chip in Illustrator and it prints great.

Here's an example of the Photoshop faux mold on the vector chip:

 

[Cratty]

In order for a faux mold to look authentic, it needs a shadow edge and a highlight edge around the mold art.
I originally made faux molds using Illustrator and making a thin offset for the highlight and a thin offset for the shadow. However, it was fairly labor intesive, and didn't produce great results.

I am now using Photoshop to make faux molds, it is SO much better at beveling and embossing, and I can tweak the values exatly how I like them on the fly. I place the psd file over the chip in Illustrator and it prints great.

Here's an example of the Photoshop faux mold on the vector chip:
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This is the way.