Invitation Tutorial, Challenge 39, by rissa_jennings
Many thanks to pensnest for the tutorial invite! This is written for Photoshop 7 and should be translatable to other versions of Photoshop; however, it does use filters, and having never used PSP or Gimp, I’m not sure how well it will translate to other programs.
We’ll be going from the fashion image to textures like these:
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I started out by cropping down the original image. There was a lot to focus on, and I knew I wanted to blur out a lot of the details of the picture, so I focused on the bright yellow swath of fabric. This is the base image I used:
Duplicate the base and add a Gaussian Blur to this layer, with a radius of 30 px. I set this layer to Linear Burn at 100 percent opacity. This darkened the image a lot, to the point where you could still see the folds in the fabric, but you couldn’t really see the woman on the right anymore, which was what I wanted. (Sad but true, I thought the fabric was more interesting for textures than she was!) The result:
Next, I duplicated the base layer again and dragged it to the top of the layer palette. On this layer, I used the Difference Clouds filter, found under Filter < Render < Difference Clouds. When you use this filter, it’ll use the two colors in your layer palette at the time to color the image; I used a pale yellow (#FEF862) as my foreground and black (#000000) as my background color. Set this layer to hard light at 100 percent opacity to get:
At this point, I copied all my layers together via Copy Merged and pasted this as a new layer on top of everything and used, you guessed it, another filter. This time I used the Color Halftone filter, found under Filter < Pixelate < Color Halftone. I set this layer to Luminosity at 100 percent opacity:
I liked the halftone effect, but all the pretty colors were gone and the image looked kind of blah now. So, I duplicated that Gaussian blur layer from a couple steps back and dragged it to the top of the image, setting that to Hard Light at 100 percent opacity. Now that looked bright and colorful, just like I wanted:
With the image properly altered, decimated, what have you, I cut out my textures. I picked out the parts of the image that looked the most interesting to me, trying to vary colors and details when I could. To do this, I selected 100x100 pixel areas of the image and Copy Merged, pasting these images into a new document to save them as separate textures. (If there’s an easier way to do this, please let me know - I’m still new to texture making.) The highlighted areas show what parts of the image the textures came from:
And the full texture set:
Questions? Comments? Please let me know, I’ll do what I can to help!
We’ll be going from the fashion image to textures like these:
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I started out by cropping down the original image. There was a lot to focus on, and I knew I wanted to blur out a lot of the details of the picture, so I focused on the bright yellow swath of fabric. This is the base image I used:
Duplicate the base and add a Gaussian Blur to this layer, with a radius of 30 px. I set this layer to Linear Burn at 100 percent opacity. This darkened the image a lot, to the point where you could still see the folds in the fabric, but you couldn’t really see the woman on the right anymore, which was what I wanted. (Sad but true, I thought the fabric was more interesting for textures than she was!) The result:
Next, I duplicated the base layer again and dragged it to the top of the layer palette. On this layer, I used the Difference Clouds filter, found under Filter < Render < Difference Clouds. When you use this filter, it’ll use the two colors in your layer palette at the time to color the image; I used a pale yellow (#FEF862) as my foreground and black (#000000) as my background color. Set this layer to hard light at 100 percent opacity to get:
At this point, I copied all my layers together via Copy Merged and pasted this as a new layer on top of everything and used, you guessed it, another filter. This time I used the Color Halftone filter, found under Filter < Pixelate < Color Halftone. I set this layer to Luminosity at 100 percent opacity:
I liked the halftone effect, but all the pretty colors were gone and the image looked kind of blah now. So, I duplicated that Gaussian blur layer from a couple steps back and dragged it to the top of the image, setting that to Hard Light at 100 percent opacity. Now that looked bright and colorful, just like I wanted:
With the image properly altered, decimated, what have you, I cut out my textures. I picked out the parts of the image that looked the most interesting to me, trying to vary colors and details when I could. To do this, I selected 100x100 pixel areas of the image and Copy Merged, pasting these images into a new document to save them as separate textures. (If there’s an easier way to do this, please let me know - I’m still new to texture making.) The highlighted areas show what parts of the image the textures came from:
And the full texture set:
Questions? Comments? Please let me know, I’ll do what I can to help!