Adding your own custom flavors is an important process in design. Here are some simple techniques you can use to put personal touches on existing illustrations, imagery, and fonts—try these effects to make them your own.

1. In Illustrator Starting from the original image, we selected the dress, made a copy, and brought it to the front.
Tip: If you’re dealing with multiple shapes, we suggest uniting them in the Pathfinder palette by holding down Option and clicking on the Unite/ Add to shape area icon.
2. Choose a pattern that you want the selected shape to be filled with. We opted to fill the woman’s dress with the honeycomb pattern.
3. Drag your pattern onto the selected shape, and it automatically fills the area.
4. Finally, add some finishing touches. In the Transparency palette, we lowered the Opacity to 30 percent, and set the Blending Mode to Screen. Image 014C1104LL.