Documenting The Illustrative Design ProcessCreated by Von. R. Glitschka

Round Off Technique

08.11.06 | Free Tutorials



This tutorial will show you how to take your finalized illustrative logo mark and replace the tell-tale signs of computer driven design with all it’s sharp clean points and give your art a very custom and sophisticated feel by rounding them off. It’s an easy but effective technique you’ll find yourself using for years to come.

Keywords: Technique, Round, Logo, Design, Fly, Face

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  1. xris wrote: August 25, 2006 at 8:01 am

    QUALITY IS IN THE DETAILS!

    This technique definately makes thw work look more refined and print-friendly.

    I have many logos I would like to go back to and tweak with this technique but I cannot locate the INSET PATH TOOL in Adobe Illustrator 11.0.

    PLEASE HELP.

  2. reverend wrote: August 26, 2006 at 1:47 pm

    Very interesting technique and a sure shortcut to doing this by hand. I have tried this in Illustrator (CS) and must report that this does not seem to work all the time. I haven’t quite figured out why and under what circumstances, so if you do have any insights, please do share. Thanks.

  3. admin wrote: August 26, 2006 at 5:07 pm

    Yes, I added new information to the notes file with a suggested work around and sample image. On some angles it’s too extreme and no rounding will occur. On those areas you’ll have to go in and do it manually.

    In the past Illustrator had a plug-in called ‘Round Corners’ which worked great but it stopped working after version 8. I wish they’d add that feature back in because you could round any type of shape irregular or not.

  4. admin wrote: August 31, 2006 at 11:39 am

    In CS2 Illustrator go to the menu at the top of the screen and follow this path and you’ll find the tool.

    OBJECT>PATH>OFFSET PATH

    There you’ll find the controls referred to in the tutorial. Under the ‘Joins’ drop down menu in the window that comes up you’ll want to select ‘Round’.

  5. boludo wrote: September 11, 2006 at 11:58 am

    Illustrator HAS the Round Corners plugin (or effect, as you want to call it).

    Filter > Stylize > Round Corners

  6. josh mishell wrote: December 20, 2006 at 5:54 pm

    I’ve also found that if you ever use Live Trace in illustrator the round corners takes a lot of the sharp edges out of it. Live Trace works well in some situations, but miserably in others. Round corners is definitely something to check out.

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