make ur own textures... again

Here’s another quick way to make your own textures in a couple easy steps from any picture you have.




I did this in Photoshop CS. It should translate to PSP rather easily.

Here I choose a view through a rainy windowshield. I tlooked like an interesting view with lots of basic texture.



Next I picked an area I liked and resized to 100x100.


I duplicated the layers.
On the duplicate layer I did a Gaussian blur. You don't want too much of the original picture to be preceived.


I duplicated the blurred layer and set the blending mode to screen.


I duplicated the top screen layer and rotated it 90°.


And there you have an instant light texture from a picture.

And now let's apply it to a picture in a few diffferent ways.

Apply the Hard Light blend mode and adjust the opacity and get this:


Change the blend mode to color and adjust the opacity and get this:


Do a Gaussian blur, change the blend mode to Linear Light, and adjust the opacity and get this:


Just playing around with the Gaussian blur and the blending modes can create no end of light textures.