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Welcome.

In this tutorial we will be making these textures:



You will need these plug-ins:
- Edgemaster by n d
- Height Field to Normal Map by stinger (You only need the HeightToNormal.dll)

Thanks to csm725 for inspiration from this tutorial



Step 1.
First open a new canvas and fill it with a light gray. For this tutorial I used one size 600x600 and filled it with Hex: D8D8D8.

Step 2.
Add a new layer, set colors to default (black and white) and Effects>Render>Clouds with a low scale setting.


Step 3.
Do Effects>Distort>Crystalize. I used cell size 17.


Step 4.
Now run Effects>Edgemaster with black color at maximum intensity


Step 5.
Add a new layer and repeat steps 2-4.

Step 6.
Flatten the image and apply Effects>Blurs>Gaussian Blur at default settings


Step 7.
Effects>Noise>Add Noise with intensity: 45-50, color saturation: 0, Coverage: 100


Step 8.
Effects>Noise>Median with radius: 2 and percentile around 70


Step 9.
Duplicate this layer and, on the top layer, run Effects>Height Field to Normal Map, turn black and white and invert colors


Step 10.
Move this layer to the bottom and change the blending mode of the top layer to multiply. Adjust opacity to your liking.


You now have your pebbles texture! Continue below to make the leather texture.

Step 11.
Invert colors on the top layer set to multiply. You might also want to duplicate this layer and reduce the opacity on the duplicated layer about halfway down.


Step 12.
Flatten image, adjust brightness using Adjustments>Curves


Step 13.
Add some color, Adjustments>Curves RGB mode


You now have your leather texture!

Example of usage (with some further editing):


Alternative strangelooking outcome:


To make this use a brown colored pebbles texture with a black and white leather texture in a layer above set to difference:

Thanks so much for the tute! I have it bookmarked

Interesting. May come in handy later. Thanks for posting.

Nice set of textures.

I especially like the "Alternative strangelooking outcome:.

Like looking down at a partially submerged gravel bed.

brilliant texture mate thanks for sharing the tut.

Indeed, brilliant texture all right, and thanks for making this, olav.k.m, and I wouldn't be too surprised to see Welshy run away with this tutorial, just as he did with chad's concrete tutorial. *standing by for Welshy*

Thanks for the encouraging words all I have to give some credit to this photoshop tut as well: Link That gave me some inspiration for how to start off making the cracked leather texture.

Sitcky'd...useful, easy to replicate, and good results.

Wow - this tut looks good (and what a great job you did of explaining) and the texture would be super for a carpet

@ drakaan: A sticky, wow thank you

@ Pixey: glad to hear I made myself understood, I'm not always very good at that The carpet is an interesting idea, if you try making something like that then please post your results

Playing catch up on everything here ...

Such a versatile texture. I went for something a lil' different, maybe cos I've got to decorate the house from top to bottom
I called this Final Curtain ...

OMG Welshy - how did you make that texture? It's gorgeous and looks just like Christmas wrapping paper

Pixey wrote:OMG Welshy - how did you make that texture? It's gorgeous and looks just like Christmas wrapping paper

The truth ? Not really sure
The crinkles are Sargon's curtains tut, then I put a layer of multiple gradients and used dents, set to overlay... then put Olav's leather texture set to Colour Burn (I think)

LanceMcKnight wrote:Indeed, brilliant texture all right, and thanks for making this, olav.k.m, and I wouldn't be too surprised to see Welshy run away with this tutorial, just as he did with chad's concrete tutorial. *standing by for Welshy*

See two post up, and see Welshy's curtain, and read my quote.

I told you so.

Welshy, I'd love that as a curtain.

Here is my attempt. Great tute olav! Many thanks - I'll using this one again.