help with light textures/settings/tricks

[shalowater]

I used this tutorial to make these textures but lost my settings in Photoshop CS5 since then since and the tutorial is not online anymore. I would like to recreate these textures with my CS5 or something very similar in either CS5 or Paint Shop Pro. Does anyone have any brush settings that will produce these results? Or a brush even that will

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[chuckles0505]

To get something like the 2nd set of textures I tried this on PS:

- I selected white as the foreground color and a dark orange (#f4530b) as the background color using the color picker.
- I used a 10px hard round brush
- I used the same scatter and shape settings as in the above comment. In addition under color dynamics, I set "Foreground/Background Jitter" to 80% and "Saturation Jitter" to 20% and left the rest at 0%
- I added an orange color layer (#f67222) and set it to color dodge to get that dark outer border as well as brightening each of the dots.



Feel free to play around with the settings a bit more to get something more to your tastes.

I really like the resources you share (the blue box icon textures are a personal favorite) so I hope any of this is useful :)

[shalowater]

what blue box icon textures? show me? also, i really like your white dots in the above example, what i want to make would those with a slightly softer edge, i think.

thanks for all your help. my userpic is my kitty. lol.

[chuckles0505]

I wasn't quite sure how to get the thin outline that the textures you linked have. Perhaps instead of color dodge, setting the color layer to overlay might produce a softer result. A softer brush and then a stroke effect might work too.

The textures I was referring to are from this post:
http://shalowater.livejournal.com/208558.html

Cute kitty!

[shalowater]

oh those purple/blue box textures. those were made with a tutorial too. http://icon-tutorial.livejournal.com/9255263.html#cutid1