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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[unreal]

Hope this works in CS5
http://draconis393.deviantart.com/art/Light-Texture-Tutorial-for-PS-32917826

[shalowater]

thanks for the link. i have that one in favorites but it didn't produce the results i was looking for. i will try it again. you make great textures, have you ever considered making a tutorial for them?

[unreal]

I never have since I never really thought some people would be interested in. Anything particulair you want to see a tutorial of?

[shalowater]

i went to your tumblr because i could not find them on your livejournal but the style of the textures i like are like the following rainbows, nothing changed, taste like candy, warm feeling, black and white. they look colorful and foggy or cloudy with a bit of grunge mixed in. they are a really nice style. thanks so much.

[chuckles0505]

You could play around with the brush settings (shape dynamics and scattering) to see what works for you.

For example with PS, I clicked twice with a 20 px white, soft round brush with these scatter settings (scatter: %1000, both axes, control: off; count: 7, count jitter: 100%, control: off) and these shape settings (size jitter: %80, control: off, minimum diameter: %40).
Then added a light orange color layer (#fdca68) set to color burn to produce this:

[shalowater]

For the second set of textures additionally change the foreground to background jitter under the color dynamics brush setting to range your dots between 2 colors.

thanks so much. can you explain further what you said there (above) maybe with an example or screen cap? i think that that is what i am looking for.

i like the one you made too. i will try those settings. the article is great also.

[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.

[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