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Wildheart of Wildheart’s Works brings you 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. In fact in this week’s segment she actually converts a Photoshop tutorial to Paint Shop Pro.

This week I wanted to utilize what is promising to be a very useful Web 2.0 application called FriendFeed to search for some sites that offer quality free textures for either commercial or personal use.

One site that I have actually bought software is listed below as well. The name of the site is The Plug In Site. I bought Harry’s Abstract and Mutation software from there at a reasonable price of less than $20 and the customer service they offer is pretty decent. When I placed an order with them it had been from a previous residence and once I got moved in here I emailed them to let them know of the address change and Harold Heim personaly emailed me telling me that my address changed had been noted and my product was being shipped to the new address.

I hope you enjoy this list of links all of which offer very unique textures. I downloaded two texture packs from Designers-Reovlution. I can say that they are very nice vintage textures which can be used for scrapbook pages you want to create to convey a vintage feel.

http://www.designers-revolution.com/2008/07/300-vintage-style-textures-and.html

http://www.graphicxtras.com/products/pspaddons.htm

http://www.designertoday.com/Tutorials/Paint.Shop.Pro/4150/Ruster.Texture.Paint.Shop.Pro.Tutorial.aspx

http://thepluginsite.com/

http://www.lostandtaken.com/

http://www.creativecloseup.com/30-great-free-paper-backgrounds-and-textures

http://wefunction.com/2008/07/function-brushes-subtle-grunge-textures/

http://www.textureking.com/

http://oneodddude.net/FreeTextures.php

http://www.cgtextures.com/

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Wildheart of Wildheart’s Works brings you 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. In fact in this week’s segment she actually converts a Photoshop tutorial to Paint Shop Pro.

How to Make a Clean Car Look Dirty

I wanted to do something a little different this week.

I wanted to see how I could manipulate a car paint job using Paint Shop Pro to make it look like it hadn’t been washed.

This is really easy to do. You simply find a car image that is free to use on the internet, save it and open it up in Paint Shop Pro and then crop it as tightly as you can so you have the smallest area possible to work with. You don’t want to crop it too much though, so pay close attention to how you use the crop tool.

When you’re done you want to go into your color pallet and choose a light brown or light orange color. Choose a brush to work with. I used a brush I found called Tha Brush Set. You should be able to Google this to find it.

Then I just simply started adding smoke to the paint job, you will need to adjust the brush size accordingly to get into the smaller areas. I briefly want to mention that a brownish orange will also work. Whatever you can find that looks as close to a rust color possible is preferable.

This is the car I used and how it looked before.

And this is the car after I manipulated it.

There are other things that you can do, like use the selection tool to cut out the wheels to make it look like the car has no wheels. You could also take the hood off perhaps. That would take some real close work with an eraser tool. Or maybe use a grunge brush to give the chrome a rusty look.
The possibilities are endless.

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Wildheart of Wildheart’s Works brings you 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. In fact in this week’s segment she actually converts a Photoshop tutorial to Paint Shop Pro.

Sometimes the best laid plans invariably go wrong.

As I was preparing for this week’s installment, my cat decided to waylay my plans. So today I am going to offer a ‘best of’ block of textures for you that I am extremely proud of.

I had managed to get two real life textures snapped with my new camera until my cat decided she wanted to play with the nice gray string used for carrying on the wrist and my camera took a nose dive and now the digital readout is all messed up. Now I have to wait until August 2nd to get it replaced if I want Kodak to replace it for free. Long story. I spent all day on the phone today explaining what happened and they said they can’t do anything until the service plan I purchased kicks in.

So without further ado I am showcasing what I think are my best textures I have done so far this year.

This is one I did in honor of The Fourth of July here in the United States

I used a board pattern and a darker gray on this one to give it a board texture instead.

These bricks were made using a mask and a gray background.

Some of you may recognize this one from a previous Texture Tuesday.

I tried to mimic a painted wall that has some texture to it.

This one was done using a mask and a white background.

This one has gotten well over 1,200 views over on Flickr

You are free to snag these I would be interested in seeing what you make out of them. As always if you have any tips or tricks that you want me to investigate and present please email me at joecheray@gmail.com

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