Tutorial #9




how to make textures

Step One:
 Doodle. example. Motion blur: angle 0 & distance 597. Try to just spread the colors and get it to cover the white spots of the canvas. example.
Color Balance. (ctrl + b) I used +100, -42, +100 example

Step Two:
 Duplicate the image. Then sharpen x15 (after you do it the first time, press Ctrl+F). Desaturate, set it to softlight. Motion blur. example.

Step Three:
 New layer, stamp all visible (ctrl+alt+shift+e). Edit>transform> distort. Play. Press enter. Set it to softlight. Repeat as you like. Try duplicating, rotating, changing the color, or erasing. example.

Step Four:
 New layer, doodle, blur, screen, and adjust color. New layer, stamp visible, filter>distort>shear, softlight. New layer, fill dark blue, exclusion, opacity to 58%. New layers, softlighted with gray or black spots. example.

Step Five:
 New layer, black spots. Stamped a new layer, change the color, Overlay. Stamp new layerm, invert, multiply. Flatten, image>adjust>brightness/contrast. Duplicate x3. Bottom up its screen, screen, softlight. Flatten. Blur, stamp a new layer, filter>distort>waves softlight, erase. Flatten. Color balance. Duplicate, blur. Rotate. Multiply. Erase. Flatten, duplicate softlight. Flatten, Motion Blur. example.

Step Six:
 Duplicate, sharpen a few times. New layer and soflighted some white spots. filter>distort>waves. FINISHED RESULT

You don't have to follow all the steps. It was to show you how to manipulate your colors, and play around with some of those millions of settings. Normally you can get things done a lot quicker than that.