Week 3 - Creating Natural Textures in Unnatural Ways

Textures and patterns - two of my favorites! Oh boy, a fun week.

Assignment A: Making Stone

Here's my first attempt at a stone texture. I'd never used the Lighting Effects filter before and didn't realize I could drag out the size in the left hand panel. However, having the dark edges makes this look like a rounded stone. I kind of like the effect.

I tried again - this time I dragged out the size to get a more traditional pattern. I made it seamless and colorized it. Looks a bit like lava.

Assignment B: Wood

What a great way to make realistic wood! I tried to make this look like the wood in my dining room table. I followed this pretty much by the lesson, but painted over some of the knotholes. I then cloned a bit of the pattern back on to them. While you can see the repeats in this pattern, I'm keeping this way, as the "boards" I made from it look good. I made the boards the exact size as the pattern and then beveled them.

Assignment B2: More Wood

These are the extra tutorials mentioned in the lesson.

Walnut	Pine	Oak

Assignment C: Making a Patterned Layer Style

I've used a few of the tag shapes I made for scrapping and some others. Filled with my wood style and these look pretty realistic.

Assignment C2: Painting with a Layer Style

This is a simple and very striking technique. You simply copy a layer style to a blank layer and then paint.

Assignment D: Making Marble

This is making marble without all the marble dust of real marble. Filters do it quickly.

Assignment D2: Primordial Soup

A variation of the marble technique.

Assignment E: Planting Photoshop Grass

I never knew about the "behind" mode.

Lightening

I've done lightening before. Take a peek here: