adding noise to illustrator gradients?

[M***@adobeforums.com]

Is there an easy way to add noise to illustrator gradients? I'm trying to accomplish an effect similar to the airbrush look of 20s/30s posters. you can see the same effect on much of Quiznos in-store graphics too.

[J***@adobeforums.com]

Effects>Texture>Grain?

JET

[M***@adobeforums.com]

you can't apply that effect to vector art-only to bitmaps you've imported.

[Dee Holmes]

I can in AI9. Are you in RGB Mode? It won't work in CMYK.

Maybe it's changed?

[W***@adobeforums.com]

Matt that is Filter>Artistic>Film Grain that you can only apply bitmaps, Effect>Artistic>Film Grain can be applied to Vector objects.

Which if you look carefully is what James wrote. He is seldom wrong about technique
actually I think the closest he has come to being wrong is that there has been an alternative method to a technique that he had suggested.

[J***@adobeforums.com]

Effect>Artistic>Film Grain can be applied to Vector objects.




Moreover, it can be applied to grad-filled vector objects and used in conjunction with transparency. Of course it is a raster effect and will be rasterized at print time or upon export. But it's live while in the native AI document.

JET

[m***@adobeforums.com]

but as Dee said, it only works in RGB...

[Dee Holmes]

You could get it the way you want and then rasterize it and convert it to CMYK.