Winner's Tutorial, Challenge 39, by immortalje
This is my tutorial for my winning set (see at the end for a reminder). I think I made this originally in PS CS3 (using PS7 to compare with my notes and make the pictures used in this tutorial) using primarily filters.
Warning: This tutorial is image heavy!
Texture Tutorial
Going from
to
Note: Unless otherwise stated, layers are set at 100%
Note2: This was the first time I did textures, so I simply tried one filter after another. Most of the time I tried filters with different values until I liked it.
Step 1:
I copied the background (original) layer and set the new layer (1) to Overlay before using the Radial Blur.
I used the following settings:
Strength - 70
Method - spin
Quality - good
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Step 2:
I copied the background again and set the new layer (2) to Screen. This time I used the filter Crystallize with the value 10.
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Step 3:
Once again, I copied the background to create another layer (3) blending it as Linear Light. I used the Patchwork filter with the following values:
squaresize: 8
relief: 21
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Step 4:
At this point I saved the file with a slight extension to the name (so I would know where it belonged to) before merging the layers. I tend to do this before merging in case I want to redo something or forgot how I got the result.
For this I used the key-combination Ctrl+Shift+e.
The layers before the merge:
I merged the layers because I wanted the following effects to work on the combined picture and not just one of the individual layers.
Step 5:
Now I used the filter Polar Coordinates going from square to polar on the merged layer
to
Step 6:
Once again I used the Radial Blur, leaving the values from before (70, good) while switching from spin to zoom.
to
Step 7:
I liked the result of the last step already, but thought it wasn't smooth enough so I did a Gaussian Blur at 8,0 to get a nicer result:
to
Step 8:
Now I went wild with cropping 100x100 pieces out of it by setting the cropping tool to 100x100 and picking various spots in various original sizes... I ended up with 31 textures out of which I picked the 8 I liked best.
Winning set:
Feel free to ask questions if anything is unclear or just because :)
Warning: This tutorial is image heavy!
Texture Tutorial
Going from
to
Note: Unless otherwise stated, layers are set at 100%
Note2: This was the first time I did textures, so I simply tried one filter after another. Most of the time I tried filters with different values until I liked it.
Step 1:
I copied the background (original) layer and set the new layer (1) to Overlay before using the Radial Blur.
I used the following settings:
Strength - 70
Method - spin
Quality - good
to
Step 2:
I copied the background again and set the new layer (2) to Screen. This time I used the filter Crystallize with the value 10.
to
Step 3:
Once again, I copied the background to create another layer (3) blending it as Linear Light. I used the Patchwork filter with the following values:
squaresize: 8
relief: 21
to
Step 4:
At this point I saved the file with a slight extension to the name (so I would know where it belonged to) before merging the layers. I tend to do this before merging in case I want to redo something or forgot how I got the result.
For this I used the key-combination Ctrl+Shift+e.
The layers before the merge:
I merged the layers because I wanted the following effects to work on the combined picture and not just one of the individual layers.
Step 5:
Now I used the filter Polar Coordinates going from square to polar on the merged layer
to
Step 6:
Once again I used the Radial Blur, leaving the values from before (70, good) while switching from spin to zoom.
to
Step 7:
I liked the result of the last step already, but thought it wasn't smooth enough so I did a Gaussian Blur at 8,0 to get a nicer result:
to
Step 8:
Now I went wild with cropping 100x100 pieces out of it by setting the cropping tool to 100x100 and picking various spots in various original sizes... I ended up with 31 textures out of which I picked the 8 I liked best.
Winning set:
Feel free to ask questions if anything is unclear or just because :)