Silk - Adobe Photoshop tutorial
- Added: Aug 9th, 2004
- Level: Easy
- Author: Melfina
- Program version: 7.0
- Reads: 20,547
- Description: Realistic silk robe to use as texture or background.
Start with a new image. You can set the width and height you want. I took 800x600. You can set the image mode to grayscale (Image > Mode > Grayscale), but it's not necessary.
Take the gradient tool and select a gradient similar to the one down here (colour doesn't matter, you can change it after) and with this settings:
Don't forget to change the mode to difference!
Apply some gradients in different directions until you get something like this:
Go to Filter > Distort > Twirl and leave the angle at
75º
Now go to Filter > Artistic > Paint Daubs. These are the settings:
Brush size: 22
Sharpness: 0
Brush type: sparkle
Fade the effect by going to Edit > Fade Paint daubs and set the opacity at
60%.
Now the image is a little softer.
If you had change the image mode to grayscale, go to Image > Mode
> RGB color.
We'll colorize it a little by going to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation. You can
choose the color you want, these are the settings I used (make sure Colorize is
selected)
Hue: 360
Saturation: 48
Lightness: -30
Ready! that's the result!
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