Scratch Texture Tutorial
How to make my scratch textures.
How to Make Scratch Textures with Light
by 51291 @ livejournal.com
Hiya! I'm Kiera, of course many of you know that. But many of you know me as, 51291. i feel like a robot or something because my nickname on here is in numbers. haha. You can call me Kia. A very nice person asked me if I could make a tutorial of how I make my scratch textures. Now I'm going to write this tutorial from scratch , no pun intended. But if you'd like to learn how I learned to make basic scratch textures, you can check this lovely tutorial here by ippai_kitai at livejournal.com
Information on this Tutorial
Level: Medium , you must know what the pen tool is what the stroke option is etc.
Tools being used: The pen tool and Brush tool. As well as the Brush Strokes -- Sprayed Strokes filter.
1. Open up Photo shop. Done? Okayyy, good! Now open a new document when doing so make sure the color of the document is black. It can be any size but I'll use 800x600 for now.
2. Once you do that make a new layer, and select the 1 px round brush. What I did here .
3. Okay now select the pen tool , you shouldn't of done anything with the brush tool because that comes later. Make sure you have these settings on your pen tool.
4. Now on your new layer start making random lines ( make sure the lines are white ) like I did here . Go crazy if you want, you cna tell I kind of did.
5. Alright now right click on the lines and select "Stroke Path" where it says tool select "Brush" and make sure you have "Simulate Pressure" selected, click okay. You're not done yet.
6. Now right click on the lines again and select "Delete Path" , you should have something like this now.
7. Now press SHIFT+CTRL+ALT+E ( or SELECT WHOLE IMAGE -- EDIT -- COPY MERGED -- PASTE ) all at once. A new layer should of appeared. Now go to Filter -- Brush Strokes -- Sprayed Strokes. Have these settings . Now click okay and you should have the black layer with noise looking dots.
8. Set that top layer to Screen, play around with the opacity. Now go to the scratch lines layer and set that to screen, also play around with Opacity settings. I got this .
9. You're not done XD. Go to the top layer and make a new layer, now select a 300 px soft round brush. Use a dark red color and use the round brush anywhere. I used the middle. I did this .
10. Go to the Gaussian Blur option and play around with the setting I used "70.0" as my choice. I also clicked okay. Then I set the round red circle layer to LIGHTEN and lowered the FILL opacity a bit , like this.
11. Now you should of gotten something like this . now I hate odd numbers so..
12. And that's how you make my version of colored light textures. Whoo! I suggest you also play with different colors, and Desaturate the colored layers and stuff to get other versions of my scratch textures. Show me what you did ^^.