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Techniques For Creating Custom Textures In Photoshop

Techniques For Creating Custom Textures In Photoshop


  • By Stephen Petrany

  • July 3rd, 2014

  • PhotoshopTechniquesTutorials

  • 3 Comments

Textures are everywhere — a petrify of a sidewalk, a fabric on your chair, even a potion (or plastic) aspect of a shade you’re staring during right now. It’s healthy that textures interest to us since we see and feel them any day. And it’s no warn because textures have turn such an critical component in settlement — so important, in fact, that we wish to share with we a tricks and collection to emanate your possess textures regulating Photoshop.


Photoshop isn’t usually for retouching images or utilizing photos. It can be used for so many more, such as formulating your possess textures — as prolonged as we know where to look. In this article, we will benefaction a substructure of techniques to assistance we build tradition textures. I’ll go over 3 Photoshop facilities that we rest on to do many of my texturing — filters, covering styles and brushes. Before we burst in, we wish to denote a significance of textures. Consider a picture below:


A comparison of textures.1
A comparison of textures. (View vast version2)

In a picture above, we see a stage with no textures. (OK, there is one texture, prosaic gray. Without during slightest one texture, a picture would not exist.) The second picture (right) shows a stage entirely textured (the timber on a frame, a dry list top, a fabric on a chair, etc.). In fact, this whole picture was combined in Photoshop (without a use of outmost images), regulating many of a techniques summarized in this article. Note that this essay explores how to emanate textures, though if you’re meddlesome in training some-more about regulating hardness as an component in design, some additional reading is enclosed during a finish of this article.


Texturing With Filters


Filters are still noticed by many as inexpensive gimmicks that have no genuine germane duty in Photoshop. (I know, we used to be on that side of a fence.) On a contrary, Photoshop filters are intensely absolute effects that, when used properly, can furnish some extraordinary results. If filters are not a partial of your normal Photoshop workflow, we inspire we to take another demeanour during these underappreciated effects and use a tips subsequent to get started.


Apply a Filter to a Filter


No one ever pronounced that we can request usually one filter. Instead, try adding a second or third or more. Experiment with mixed filters and see how they correlate with any other to emanate new effects. The Filter Gallery row (Filter → Filter Gallery) even has a filter smoke-stack where we can preview how mixed filters work together. The picture subsequent demonstrates how a Craquelure filter becomes many some-more engaging simply by requesting it to a Reticulation filter around a Filter Gallery.


The Craquelure filter practical to a Reticulation filter in a Filter Gallery panel.3
The Craquelure filter practical to a Reticulation filter in a Filter Gallery panel. (View vast version4)

Let’s take another demeanour during how some filters work together to emanate tradition textures. The picture subsequent shows a elementary instance of this.


A counterfeit hardness combined with mixed filters.5
A counterfeit hardness combined with mixed filters. (View vast version6)

The picture subsequent depicts a stairs compulsory to reconstruct this texture. The hardness starts with a vacant board (left). Adding a Noise filter (Filter → Noise → Add Noise) (middle) introduces randomness to a stage and sets adult a good substructure for a subsequent filter. Because filters work by utilizing a pixels on a layer, a sequence in that we request filters is important. So, by requesting a Emboss filter (Filter → Stylize → Emboss) on tip of a Noise filter, a new hardness is combined (right).


Three stairs to emanate a elementary texture.7
Three stairs to emanate a elementary texture. (View vast version8)

Furthermore, some filters usually furnish improved formula when practical some-more than once. Consider a picture subsequent of a circled grid. Applying a Spherize filter (Filter → Distort → Spherize) produces usually a amiable outcome (middle). However, requesting it a second time creates a some-more plausible globe (right).


Some filters work improved when practical some-more than once.9
Some filters work improved when practical some-more than once. (View vast version10)

Tip: Convert a covering to a Smart Object before requesting a filter to capacitate Smart Filters. Smart Filters are non-destructive and can be edited on a fly.


Experiment with opposite combinations of filters to see how they correlate with any other. Soon, you’ll be means to envision how a filter competence work with another filter to emanate a sold effect. Lets pierce on to a subsequent tip.


Some Filters Naturally Tile


Tiling textures, while desirable, mostly takes a lot of time and bid — because not let Photoshop do many of a work for you? Some filters (such as Clouds and Noise) will naturally tile when a request is sized in powers of 2 (for example, 256 × 256, 512 × 512, even 512 × 1024). If we start with one of these textures as a bottom and build on tip of it, you’ll find that we can fast emanate some formidable textures that tile with tiny or no additional effort. The picture subsequent shows an instance of a hardness that was combined by regulating a Clouds filter as a starting point.


Wood hardness combined with a Clouds filter as a base.11
Wood hardness combined with a Clouds filter as a base. (View vast version12)

As stated, this hardness starts with a Clouds filter (Filter → Render → Clouds) practical to a request that’s sized to 1024 × 1024 pixels. Similar to Noise, a Clouds filter provides some randomness that works simply with other filters.


Clouds filter practical to a vacant document.13
Clouds filter practical to a vacant document. (View vast version14)

At this point, we are giveaway to adjust a measure of a picture though harming a ability to tile. Therefore, by adjusting a distance around Image → Image Size, we can smash a hardness while gripping it tileable (left). Now, if we supplement a Posterize outcome (Image → Adjustment → Posterize), we can mangle adult a hardness into a series of gray shades with some-more tangible edges (middle). The Find Edges filter (Filter → Stylize → Find Edges) will besiege usually those edges, producing a start of a timber pellet settlement (right).


A stretched Clouds filter becomes timber grain.15
A stretched Clouds filter becomes timber grain. (View vast version16)

To learn a whole routine of how this hardness was created, check out my “Custom Wood Texture in Adobe Photoshop17” tutorial.


Texturing With Layer Styles


Layer styles are another approach to deliver hardness into a scene. They offer additional options to overstate a essence of a layer. Experimenting with any environment in a Layer Styles row in sequence to learn how they work is always a good practice. Below are some tricks we use when operative with covering styles.


Blending Modes


When building textures in Photoshop, consistent modes do accurately what they say: blend. Multiple layers of textures can seamlessly mix into a single, formidable texture, as seen below:


The hardness on a tabletop was combined by consistent mixed textures.18
The hardness on a tabletop was combined by consistent mixed textures. (View vast version19)

Tip: Working with grayscale textures when regulating consistent modes creates consistent many easier to control (color can always be combined later).


When you’re perplexing to build formidable textures, knocking it out in one try can be difficult. Instead, try to mangle down a formidable hardness into a set of easier sub-textures. Consider a hardness of a tabletop in a 4 images below. Each picture represents a elementary hardness that was blended together with a others to emanate a some-more formidable final texture.


The hardness on a tabletop was combined by consistent mixed textures.20
The hardness on a tabletop was combined by consistent mixed textures. (View vast version21)

Advanced Blending and “Blend If” Options


Using covering styles competence be an apparent choice, though many people mostly omit a “Advanced Blending” territory in a default Layer Styles panel. Hidden in plain steer are some of a some-more absolute consistent options. Here, we can confirm how a covering facade will impact a style: Will it censor a covering character or usually obstruct it to a manifest apportionment of a layer? Towards a bottom of a menu are a “Blend If” sliders. These sliders can simply furnish formidable consistent effects.


The Layers Style row contains a mostly ignored “Advanced Blending” and “Blend If” options.22
The Layers Style row contains a mostly ignored “Advanced Blending” and “Blend If” options. (View vast version23)

Take a picture below. The silken hardness on a paint was combined with minimal bid regulating a “Blend If” sliders.


An picture of a paintbrush combined regulating several techniques in Photoshop.24
An picture of a paintbrush combined regulating several techniques in Photoshop. (View vast version25)

The “Blend If” sliders control how a covering is blended into a layers underneath it, as illustrated in a images below. The initial covering of paint (left) appears too prosaic though has usually adequate movement to concede a “Blend If” sliders to work. Next, extended areas of white are embellished onto a new covering (right) to conclude where a consistent will take place. Adjusting a “Blend If” sliders of a white covering will furnish that silken outcome in a picture above.


Steps in formulating a silken texture.26
Steps in formulating a silken texture. (View vast version27)

Tip: When regulating a “Blend If” sliders, reason Option or Alt while adjusting a sliders to apart them, creation for a smoother blend.


The “Blend If” sliders separated.28
The “Blend If” sliders separated.

To learn some-more about how this picture was created, check out my “Create a Paint Brush in Photoshop29” tutorial.


Duplicate Layer Styles


Sometimes a covering will advantage from carrying dual of a same covering styles with opposite settings. In past versions of Photoshop, accomplishing this though regulating mortal techniques was difficult. With a introduction of Smart Objects in CS2 — and now with a ability to supplement covering styles to covering groups in CS6 — Photoshop creates it easy to use and reuse mixed covering styles on a same layer. This technique was used to emanate a potion and a potion bottle in a stage below.


Wine bottles and booze eyeglasses combined with a assist of transcribe covering styles.30
Wine bottles and booze eyeglasses combined with a assist of transcribe covering styles. (View vast version31)

Examining usually a potion from a scene, it starts with a general figure on a possess covering (left). The Inner Shadow and Gradient Overlay covering styles were reserved to a covering (middle). The covering was converted to a Smart Object, that allows we to revise a covering styles in future. Next, a same dual covering styles (Inner Shadow and Gradient Overlay) were reapplied to a Smart Object (right) regulating opposite settings to grasp a some-more formidable effect.


The potion figure with transcribe covering styles.32
The potion figure with transcribe covering styles. (View vast version33)

Examining a picture above, we can see how artistic we can get with covering styles. For example, in a center image, a Gradient Overlay covering character was practical as a large, soothing slope that acts roughly as a vignette around a tip and bottom of a shape. In a final panel, a Gradient Overlay was treated many differently. It’s practical as a small, parsimonious slope that becomes a normal tuber figure on a bottom of a booze bottle.


To learn some-more about how this was created, check out my “Create a Wine Bottle and Glass With Smart Objects34” tutorial.


Texturing With Brushes


Using brushes is a good approach to request textures manually. If you’re into digital painting, afterwards we substantially know of several techniques regulating a Brush tool. However, being gifted during digital portrayal is not compulsory to effectively use a Brush tool. The following tips will exhibit some some-more modernized methods of regulating this tool.


Learn a Brushes Panel


This competence sound flattering basic, though many people usually hang to a “Hardness” and “Size” settings. Adjusting a settings in a Brushes row (Window → Brush) can fast extend a use of any brush. It gives we a options to fine-tune a function of a brush, creation it some-more pointless and, thus, some-more natural. This is how we combined some of a elements in a picture subsequent (such as a pencil’s highlights).


A pencil and paper stage combined in Photoshop.35
A pencil and paper stage combined in Photoshop. (View vast version36)

To emanate a picturesque highlights, we practiced a “Shape Dynamics” and a “Scattering” settings in a Brushes row (left). By changing a settings and size, we was means to furnish a series of brush strokes that demeanour some-more fragmented and some-more healthy (right). Each brush cadence represents a opposite prominence that went into a pencil.


Different brush strokes constructed with a Brushes panel.37
Different brush strokes constructed with a Brushes panel. (View vast version38)

Tip: Another good underline of a Brushes row is that it allows we to exam a brush while modifying it, that creates discerning work of environment adult a right brush for a job.


To learn some-more about how this stage was created, check out my “Create a Realistic Pencil Illustration in Adobe Photoshop39” tutorial.


Consider Custom Brush Shapes


Sometimes, usually tweaking a settings of an existent brush isn’t enough. Creating a new brush figure (via Edit → Define Brush Preset) opens adult some-more possibilities for achieving natural-looking textures. Brush shapes don’t have to be formidable to be effective — we typically work with elementary shapes and adjust a settings to fit my needs. A good instance of this is a scratches that seem on a paintbrush’s wooden hoop in a picture below.


The unsettled hoop of a paintbrush.40
The unsettled hoop of a paintbrush. (View vast version41)

The scratches were combined by sketch a elementary shape, usually like a one in a picture subsequent (left). Selecting Edit → Define Brush Preset will supplement a brush figure to your brushes library. Using a technique from a prior step and adjusting a “Shape Dynamics” and “Scattering” settings in a Brushes panel, we can emanate a brush that shows scratches (middle). The picture on a right shows a brush in use.


A tradition brush figure used to supplement texture.42
A tradition brush figure used to supplement texture. (View vast version43)

Use a Brush Tool to Paint With Layer Styles


This subsequent technique allows we to literally paint with texture. It combines a Brush apparatus and covering styles to simply emanate some formidable texturing effects. The pretence is to set a layer’s “Fill” environment to 0% in sequence to censor a brush strokes and concentration on a covering style. The picture subsequent demonstrates a technique. In this case, we used a technique to paint dents onto a steel frame.


Worn-out pointer with dented steel frame.44
Worn-out pointer with dented steel frame. ( View vast version45)

The technique works best when we use a brush figure that already has some variation. This could be a tradition brush or one of Photoshop’s several preset brushes, such as a “Charcoal 59 px” brush seen in a picture below.


The Charcoal preset brush.46
The Charcoal preset brush. (View vast version47)

Following one of a prior techniques, I’ve used a Brushes row to adjust a “Shape Dynamics” and “Scattering” settings to furnish some-more movement in a brush’s tangible stroke, as seen in a picture subsequent (left). Before regulating a brush, usually emanate a new covering with a Bevel and Emboss covering style, and afterwards set a “Fill” environment to 0% (which will censor a cadence tone though keep a covering character visible). Now, when portrayal on this layer, we can literally paint with hardness (right).


Using a tradition paintbrush to paint with texture.48
Using a tradition paintbrush to paint with texture. (View vast version49)

To learn some-more about how a steel pointer was created, check out my “Create a Retro Sign from Scratch Using Advanced Techniques in Photoshop50” tutorial.


Texturing With Images


While these textures technically weren’t combined from scratch, we suspicion this was critical adequate to address. Using textures from existent photos or scans can be a discerning and effective approach to work. However, a many common pitfalls are regulating a textures in a wrong perspective, regulating them with improper lighting or creation them seem flat. Fortunately, these are easy to equivocate and some good articles residence this.


Conclusion


As we have seen, formulating high-quality textures for art or settlement doesn’t need a talent of an workman painter. All it takes is a tiny bargain of Photoshop and believe of a collection and how to manipulate them to get a outcome we desire. Hopefully, you’ve schooled some new tricks and techniques that will assistance we in your subsequent project.


Additional Reading


  • “How to Create a Beautiful Mixed Media Illustration51,” Andreas Preis, Tuts+

  • “Playing With a Displace Filter in Photoshop52,” Abduzeedo

  • “The Whys and a Hows of Texture Design53,” Jon Savage and Simon Birky Hartmann, Smashing Magazine

  • “Using Texture to Get a Most Out of Design54,” Abduzeedo

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Footnotes


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