Texture Tuesday

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Wildheart of Wildheart’s Works returns from her short break to bring you this week’s Texture Tuesday. Wildheart is a Paintshop Pro expert, but I know you’ll enjoy the tips and tricks even if you’re not a PaintShop Pro user. And you’ll find plenty of ideas to help you work with textures in your own program.

While in Chicago for my mini vacation I took some time to take a look at textures in the real world.

This weeks texture tutorial is inspired by the pattern and texture of the cement curb at the hotel I was staying at.

Click on picture to view larger image.

To get the effect above effect I opened up a gray gradient, linear, invert unchecked, Angle 0, Repeats 0.

I then went into Effects>Art Media Effects>Brush Strokes with the following settings:

Softness 51

Brush Strokes

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Bristles 253                  Length 3
Width   20                   Density 64
Opacity75

Lighting
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Angle 70
Color R 213, G 83, B 53

I went back into effects and then went to texture>grain long deep with the following settings

1. Size 177

2. Smoothness 0

3. Depth 4

4. Ambiance -38

5. Shininess 82

6. Angle 118

7. Intensity 46

8. Elevation 24

9. Color # c0c0c0
Go into Image>Free Rotate with an angle of 270.