{"id":38366,"date":"2016-10-26T10:43:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T15:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=38366"},"modified":"2016-10-26T12:51:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T17:51:06","slug":"creative-cloud-design-tips-low-poly-portrait-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/38366-creative-cloud-design-tips-low-poly-portrait-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Cloud Design Tips: Low Poly Portrait, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"adobeThis fall we are sharing a series of Creative Cloud Design Tips<\/a> for those who have some experience but want to learn new workflows for Illustrator, Photoshop, or After Effects. Rather than setting up a tutorial where you follow a \u2018recipe\u2019 and end up with our design instead of your own, we show core workflow steps that allow you to try different looks. Where we found pitfalls or caveats, we note them so that you can avoid problems. The idea is to get you experimenting with these powerful apps and enjoying the creative process!<\/i>\"screen-shot-2016-10-25-at-10-33-56-am\"\u00a0<\/strong>Picking up where we left off: <\/strong>In Part 1<\/a> of this article, we introduced the concept of a low-poly portrait including how to set up your document in Illustrator and which tools to use to map a polygon grid over your base photograph. In this article, we\u2019ll wrap up the process by connecting the polygon mesh, removing small gaps between the polygons, and filling the polygons with colors sampled from the image<\/p>\n

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Step 5) Fine-tune polygon placement.<\/strong>
\nOnce you\u2019ve applied polygons over the entire image, you will typically find that some of the corners on polygon corners extend too far or overlap, or you may find that one polygon is too small (i.e. has larger gap than the neighboring polygons). While these can sometimes be smoothed out automatically by the averaging technique we\u2019ll use later, avoid a potential headache by removing any unusual gaps or overshoots ahead of time. Use the Direct Selection Tool (A) to stretch or shrink a polygon by selecting and dragging its edges, its corner points, or both. It may help to check your work on Outline View (Cmd-Y for Mac, Ctrl-Y for PC).<\/p>\n

Taking these extra steps will often lead to a nicer looking mesh at the end of the process. The short clip below shows examples of how existing polygons can be modified if they don\u2019t fit quite right, in both the standard view and Outline View.<\/p>\n