I am looking for a different methods of creating texture backgrounds such as old ruff solid & parchment backgrounds.I am trying to duplicate the method I used in Photoshop CS3, have Photoshop CS5, but forgot how to do it.
View 11 RepliesI'm working on a design that seems a bit bland so I thought about adding some texture to the background, though I dont want it to interfere with the foreground elements like text, and images.
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1. I can reduce the transparency, what else might I do? Fade it out?
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2. Just curious to hear some examples of when you might use a texture for a background of an image? Do you only do it for very specific reasons?.
amazing backgrounds,
I do not know if they are edited in photoshop or are literally the background,
but I want to create similar backgrounds, and I do not think clouds is going to do it:
I am making a montage of previous logos for a piece of software. As one can guess there will be a lot of pieces I want transparent. The montage will be a moving animation-like video, making it look at though you are moving towards the most recent logo.
I have created .png files of each logo (exporting from CorelDraw 11) making their backgrounds transparent. I then drag and drop the clip on to an overlay track. (I used an instant project and it came with overlay tracks which have an option checked called "Apply filter to Alpha channel," With the "Apply filter to Alpha channel," option checked I set the overlay track to fit the screen and then click the maintain aspect ratio. At this point all the places where the original picture isn't is transparent, but not the background of the picture. I'm making the overlay track size the size of the screen so I can have the logo move across the screen within the picture-in-picture filter which I then add to the overlay track. When I customize the PIP filter I have the logo fade in for the first half second or so in the middle of the screen, then move and tilt to the right or left (I alternate every other logo). At this point I think that the "Apply filter to Alpha channel," is still on, I then create a chroma key with the adjust colour similarity at 100 to make the background of my image transparent (I'm not sure why that part isn't automatic; I'm using two Corel products and I have created an alpha channel in the .png file so that as soon as I put on the timeline it should be transparent, but that doesn't happen, it goes back to the colour I originally made transparent in CorelDraw). Once I have created this chroma key, the space that was originally transparent due to the "Apply filter to Alpha channel" option, goes black. (this area is the spaced enclosed by the extents of the overlay track size and the edge of the .png file). When I right click on the logo in the timeline, there is no option to "Apply filter to Alpha channel" which I guess means you can't have a chroma key and this Alpha filter on at the same time. To remedy the black space I go to the transparency slider and set the value to "1" which gets rid of the black immediately and doesn't seem to make the rest of the image transparent at all (I'm sure technically speaking it does but 1% transparency isn't enough to notice in the .png file).
And now, the problem:There is a white-ish boarder at the edge of the .png picture. and try as i might, I cannot get rid of it. It really ruins the transparent effect. Is there a way to remedy this? or a better way of getting the effect I want which doesn't need to use both the transparency and the chroma key? I've just thought of making a really large .png file with the logo at its center and zooming in quite far in, so there is a white back ground wherever i move the logo and then using a single chroma key to get ride of the background.
[UPDATE]It is the NewBlue PIP that is creating this boarder even when you turn off all boader, shadow and reflection there it is with the boarder of the transparent portions. I also tried rendering this portion to see if it still showed up and its still there even after rendering. Also my idea of making a large picture didn't work, you can't go bigger than 100% when in the PIP editor so the border is still there, closer tot he edges of the screen, but still there none the less.
I've been trying for a long time, mostly in Ai, to make a tile able Magma pattern. but never being satisfied with the results.
If you visit my blog you'll see it's mostly build-able paper models that I design then add graphics to, then freely distribute for anyone to download & build. I've always wanted to use a magma texture, & I try to stay away from stock, with the attitude "If I want to claim this as my work, I should do all the work", so I've never been able to. Although I have looked for it to get pointers, but never found what I'm looking for.
Now with my new found passion for Photoshop, & to expand away from just paper toys, I want to try again. I want to achieve something like the pattern in the link, but from a direct overhead view not perspective, and more magma than dry earth. Without having to draw out every little piece preferably.
Link to Magma type image
I'm trying to create a texture or find a texture that I could use in my web design that looks like real stucco. I need to be able to change the color to a beige / tan or anything I want, that's why I'm thinking about going down the route of making it myself.
I tried a clouds difference / noise effect but couldn't quite get that "real" look, came out like a pixelated image and not the result I wanted.
My house is a red brick house that has had a white wash applied to the brick. (Those that don't know, this is like very thin white paint, or stain for brick. It gives a white look to it.) Anyway, I'm considering getting rid of the white wash (by use of pressure wahser) and would like to see what it will look like with the fresh red brick look.
I have a shot of the existing house (posted below) and a shot of the area where the white wash was removed. I now want to apply this "clean brick" to the "washed brick" to view the entire house.
Due to the brick not having a consistent color or texture, changing this in PhotoShop has become difficult. My only thought is to create a new texture or brush based off of a portion of the new brick. Then to select and apply that to all of the old bricks. Obvioulsy selecting all of the old bricks is another problem of its own.
The file upload manager seems to not be working for this forum. I'll try to upload later. For time being, imagine replacing a painted brick with a plain brick.
How to create a 3d box in CS6 with custom texture. Before explaining my problem, i saw couple of good 3d onject videos already and i am close to my target but yet not finished
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I would like to create a 3d product box with custom textures, reflection and shadows. I have my top, front, back and side images in high quality.
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1- With my box TOP image, i create the 3d layer.
2- Because it creates the box with the top image looking front, i position it as the top image comes to the top of the box.
3- I resize the box to the dimensions i would like to.
4- Side, front and back textures are missing. As its a custom made box, i can only add all of them in one image so i merge them vertically in a file and add the texture in 3d section
5- With UV scaling, i fit the image perfectly
6- Adding light and reflections
7- Render
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Now the main problem is, my images have the exact measures of the real product box and i would like to create a box with these dimensions.
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1- How can i play with the dimensions of the 3d box with numbers, such as pixel or cm ? As i can see, its only with %. Or is there an option so when i add the second image (side, front and back, merged), box's length dimension changes accordingly?
2- How can i create 3d box and add different textures to different part of the box? I found CUBE MESH PRESET in the forums but no download link, EVEN IN THE DISCCUSION itself
3- I have a i5-3570 , 8GB Ram, 1GB Radeon HD7750 at work, newly built. I work with high resolution files, and when i create my box and render it, some parts come out blur, why this is happening? At home i have a older PC, and it doesnt happen that much. Where i can modify the render quality or such a thing if it exists?
I am trying to create a displacement map from a texture, and am not sure how to go about it. If you look at the attachments you can see what I am trying to accomplish. What I have done so far is:
Desat by Lumin
Motion Blur -> Linear
Length 10
Then I think I need to color by apparent depth.. which I am not sure how to do?
I have keyframed some ojects. I then set up a camera projection texture at keyframe 179
Is it possible to create a Texture Reference Object from keyframe 179 so this texture will stick to the geometry throughout the sequence?
How does one create a texture similar to this?
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI am currently using this method, creating a 1-bit bitmap from a grayscale "distress" texture bitmap, choosing transparent fill or outline depending on which area i need trasparent and powerclip it in text or other vector object.Â
Is there a way to achieve the same distress effect with transparency with FILL ? pattern fill maybe? eg can i save in some format this bitmap to use it maybe as a pattern in pattern fill and retain transparency ?Â
sample file (X4)
I have a lava texture and a ground texture. I'd like to be able to make some cracks on the ground texture that would show through the lava texture below it. Something like a cracked mud look. I would be using this for a game I'm making form some terrain textures. Are there any plugins that would aid in making these transparent cracks and perhaps even add depth to the cracks?
I guess a spider web where the spider was on crack would be something I'm looking for. Similar to the following image:
Lava Ground
I've noticed that practically all SIG makers have really nice backgrounds. Do they make the backgrounds personally? Or do they get it from a website?
If you are a person who makes your own sig backgrounds,
I tried to figure why I know long have the checkerboard transparent background in photoshop CC and I can't make transparency.I read somewhere they change this option I have to do PNG now. ugh really bums me out the white background I am stuck with
when i want my checkerboard background back Is there any way to get it back?It isn't because I chose white background, I chose transparent background but its white not the usual transparency.
We designed id cards (having width:1062 , height:672 pixels and resolution:300) using background of width:2560 and height:1600
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Eventhough we use backgrounds with high resolutions,while printing in ID card machine,there are strokes in between.We couldn't get good output.What could i do.
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Here is the background i used . How to design our own backgrounds?
i have a picture of a car and i would like to take some parts of the background out but not all of its how can i do its, i have tryed using Filter>Extract but it dosnt seem to work, and i read on a site that i can use Crop tool but i am not familuar with that tool is their another way to do this.
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I'm looking for pale soft images with no real pattern that can be used as a layer above a photograph to give that dreamy but slightly coloured look.
I believe there are suppliers that produce these backgrounds but can't find what I want by searching. See the background applied to the left page in pdf attached.
What options do I have to remove 'busy' backgrounds from photographs?
Many of my pictures are taken at home and I want to focus upon the wife and kids, not the sofa or curtains.
I've tried the magic wand and select similar and I've tried the magnetic lasoo - whilst both are good, they're not quite there.
I'm trying to recreate either one of the backgrounds in the 2 images below. I have a fairly good knowledge around Photoshop. I've tried rendering and filtering and just couldn't reach a relatively similar background to either one of these backgrounds.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedSo everytime I open a new document it's not a transparent background. Ill even start a new document as transparent and RGB. Still a white background when it is created. So I tried adding an image. Deleted the first layer. Still nothing. So I used a magic wand, deleted the background. Still white.
I remember having this problem before and my professor told me what it was. But I forget what she said, it was over a year ago. Anyone have any ideas?
make logos with transparent backgrounds, so that when they are placed in a DTP program (PageMaker) they do not have a white box around them, I have been using PhotoShop’s transparent export functions but inevitably this leave the image looking bitmapped, especially with text, or just plain bad. Is there anyway one can make logos with transparent backgrounds and have them look good?
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1. Do you know what font is this?
2. Do you know any website with interesting patterned backgrounds and frames like this?
try to take out a few people in some photos and put them together into one huge photo.
I've tried to do the old remove background way, but I can't get it smooth enough, I've also tried the Layer mask, burn levels way I saw on TechTV's Call for help.
I'm trying to do the 'ol text with transparent background (so i don't have to change the image each tiem i change the background.) I make a transparent background but when i save it turn the background to white. How do i make the background transparent when i save it?
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How or where can I make or find brushes like this?
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