textures with graphite and photoshop

today's task was about collecting textures to use in Photoshop the create more textures so we were given thick soft graphite pencils and paper we only needed to just move the pencil over the texture on the paper and we got the texture   the textures came from all over the college from the pavement outside to a locker on the top floor

each texture form this paper scans can be reused to make more accurate textures

once we collected these textures we had to take out a scanner and scan the textures it was awkward to do because the scanner would separate the image to some areas where the textures weren't and mix some textures together 

now we had a tutorial on how to create a metal like rock texture

we start by filling a layer with the orange the looks like the tone of copper adding a filter > render> clouds

we then got this image below
we made alpha channel 

then the channel was blank so it was black

use the filter > render > clouds again and the channel looks like this

then filter > render > lighting effects
then we have the rock below then we changed the
settings as we wanted to get the rock to look different

we were then asked to create 5 textures with the above textures and experiment
these were all made using the lighting effects

this texture was created similar to the tutorial however the image had 4 layers of different colours creating a ribbon like texture on top of the noise I think that this is helpful cause now I know that you can add colour to the texture with layers   

this image was created by erasing the channel to get the the track shape to the texture this tells me that I can shape the texture with the channels

this was tire track texture made by a swirled texture and then using the lighting effects and then using the ambiance and spot light this was the result  this was helpful cause I found out that you can shape the image using the ambiance and the spot light

this is a texture before it gone into lighting effects it has giant red spots for blood I was hoping I could create blood texture for future use
I added a twirl just before so it would look like a pool
after I used lighting effects I had resulted in this image

I then had created the text below in a similar way to the cabbage  tutorial in a earlier post

I thought that the texture was good however I felt like the word didn't suit the texture enough if i was to create the image again I would experiment in the word that I chose

textures with typography

I had crated this image by using an image of a cabbage and turning it blue by using the hue saturation and changed the values to get the blue.

I then duplicated the layer and rotated the blue cabbage next to the other one I merged the slayer and repeated but then flipped it down instead of rotating then I have 4 cabbages I then merged 1 more time and saved the image and filled a empty layer and chose the saved image
 I then typed out the word typography using the text tool I had control clicked the layer of the word and inverted it to delete the the outside of the word .

T
hen I simply made a background by using the fill on black and eraser and highlights of white
and then I have the image
 I think that this technique is useful for getting textures and adding them to typography also it is simple so it wouldn't take very long to do it making it more handy

with this one I was experimenting on other ways to create a texture and I came across the layer effects where the variety for the textures is limited it is a quick method to create the texture

david carson

today we had looked at david carson and through looking at his work we made a piece similar to 1 of them we liked














I created this piece

I had created this with a a lot of text I did not have anything that was relevant to the piece so I just typed random letters soon as I had thought it did not matter we had to come up with a catch line for the piece I had chosen look who's alone now because it had suited the look of the image I had made the curves with a  dynamic shaped brush and painted  to try and create the texture with it however I don't think that my technique looks like the same image or close really however it can be improved by if i used an angle jitter and shape jitter to get the hands  and the text could be closer by adding another layer of text and overlay them so that they overlap each other




This is his original that I had attempted to recreate
After comparing the two I feel like I had failed in recreating the texture because I didn't know what technique  had been used to recreate the texture that I didn't succeed in creating however after evaluation this I now believe that I can recreate a image similar to the original

 

my second attempt at the version this is much better because the texture is much more accurate the color scheme matches more however to improve it further I would need a black and white image in the top left and a title for the bottom right