How to Distress a Font in Illustrator

[@andrewmcbride88]

Awesome tutorial! Can customize the effect pretty easily by adjusting the effects individually as well as the image trace settings.

[@envatotuts]

Hi! Glad you enjoyed it 😄 Adjusting the effects really opens up a lot of creative options! Cheers!

[@everetstewart2518]

Did they change the photocopy effect? I can't seem to get mine to look like yours with the second method no matter how many different ways I've tried now. The inner glow part looks exactly the same but once I add photocopy its completely blown out with white with just a black outline. Thoughts?

[@inner_anna]

a lot of steps but was really useful for me and the result doesn't look cheap☝thank you!

[@envatotuts]

You very welcome.

[@Elguzman27]

Thank you! This helped me a LOT!

[@lbjmedia2151]

Hey, after the Image Trace options are set, it just turns to a black box. Any suggestions why?

[@lbjmedia2151]

In the first two steps, your distressed whites are a lot larger than mine. Thanks for any suggestions.

[@sqorpy]

make sure its 254 not 255 (had the same issue)

[@Aprendizzz2009]

Thank you... 👍👍👍👍

[@dineshm8368]

nice

[@sqorpy]

first method killed my illustrator... thx :-)

[@quackquack8538]

First

[@TrEndFeVeR22]

this sucks, too many effects applied and making illustrator slow.