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Instant textures with the texturizer filter
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Instant Texture with the Texturizer Filter:
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1.
Photoshop Sucks? Who did this? Man, I'm going to
mess him up. You can't get me more ticked off
than when you offend the best image editing
application on the planet.
But wait a second. The images look good. Damn good. How was this done? It looks like first, the airbrush was used at about 30-40% to paint those horrible neon-green words on a red background. Then it looks like the swine applied the Texturizer Filter. That thing is just too easy to use. Look what it's come to. Texture, a physical sensation, has been realistically simulated on that 2-D image. Next it looks like the graffiti artist thought he'd be really clever and applied a perspective and scale transform on that file. It looks like the "wall" is angling away from us in three-dimensional space.
I'm going to teach this guy a lesson. I'll show all you guys how the Texturizer Filter works, then when we find out who did this, we'll all make digital graffiti putting down his favorite program. |
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You can fill an image with a texture via the Lighting Effects filter. It's a little harder to do, and it's got a lot more controls to give your image a really distinctive look. But the easier way is to use the Texturizer Filter. You don't even have to have a second image to use as a texture file. This filter has four built-in textures, so in about 1.5 seconds your file can go from flat to phat! (Sorry I was looking for a catchy line- still working on that.)
Once you've got an image you want to embellish, choose Filter: Render: Texture: Texturizer... and you'll see the dialog to the left. The Texturizer Dialog Box is nice and simple. You just select a texture from the Texture: pop-up menu, control how big the texture will be with the Scaling slider, and control the depth of the 3-D effect with the Relief slider. Our visual perception of texture is dependant upon the light source. You can try out all eight directional option in the Light Dir: pop up, and instantly reverse it 180o with the Invert check box. In other words, if you've got Bottom chosen, and you check Invert, the effect is the same as if you had selected Top for the light direction. You can see what effect all this has in the little preview window.
Let's see what some of the default textures do. I've taken this picture of this darling girl and I'm going to apply the one called Canvas. You can see it now looks somewhat like it's a pretty good painting, done with some thin paints on some deep textured canvas. Here's a close up of a higher resolution version:
I'm not going to go into my settings for this file. The sliders and pop-ups are so immediate and simple to use, it's easier for you to play around with them until you think your texture looks best. Scaling will differ, depending on the resolution of the file. (Textures will seem larger in lower res images.) Relief and Light Direction are pretty consistent and maybe a matter of preference. |
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Burlap, just looks like, well... burlap and to me it just seems like a heavier textured version of canvas. But here's what Brick looks like:
Oh, I forgot. You already saw Brick used in that bit of nastiness at the start of this essay. This is what the Sandstone texture can do to an image:
Yup, looks like sandstone. |
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There's an intriguing fifth option under the Texture pop-up menu. Load Texture... let's you put some real power and versatility into the Texturizer. As the name implies, it let's you use your own textures with the filter, with Scaling and all the other controls performing the same as they did for Brick and the other defaults. The "textures" you load simply have to be Photoshop image files. So the best and brightest among you may have already guessed that we can use photographs and other non-texture files to texturize an image.
We'll get to that soon. First lets try a variety of other textures on an image. I made this grayscale one below in a program called Adobe TextureMaker.
I clicked Load Texture... and navigated to the file. To the left you can see how it affected the image of the woman. |
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In the
Dispmaps folder in Windows or the Displacement Maps folder are a bunch of designs you can also use as textures.
I chose this one and set the scaling pretty high.
I made the following diamond grid in Photoshop:
The following image was a pattern tile I had created. I applied it to the woman image as well.
This one's just a photograph of part of a zebra.
You can see that just about any image can be made to have a textural effect on another image.
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Those
of you that read the tutorial on using the Lighting Effects Filter to Texture Fill an image saw me do a few images with lettering on this Corvette photo. You can get a similar effect with the Texturizer. For my "texture" I just created a file with the same dimensions as the vette and put black text near the bottom on a white background. Instant embossed, transparent lettering! |
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Another variation: Here's a scan of a quite-skilled
rendering of a wolf on scratch board.
As soon as I saw it I thought it might look cool embossed onto an image of a wolf's native habitat. The picture is from Yosimite or something.
It took a few minutes work to get the wolf file to be the right size so I could position the wolf where I wanted. Once I had it just right, I hit Load Texture... in the Texturizer Dialog Box and selected the wolf drawing. You can see the results to the left. |
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I
found this photo of Mr. Lonely sitting on the beach
and had the idea of using the Texturizer to put a woman's face in the sky. I just recycled the image of the woman from above (I couldn't find quite the right pose I wanted, but you get the idea.) Now he seems to be thinking of someone as if he's ready to be on the cover of a tear-jerking Hallmark card. How sad.
But here's something that should cheer us up! I've finally figured out who did that accursed graffiti. It was a guy who paid $400 for a copy of Photoshop 2.0 on Ebay. I still don't know how he managed to create those graphics, but I personally watched him write a letter of apology to Adobe Systems, Ltd. and they were so moved by his stupidity they gave him a real nice upgrade deal. So while he's getting used to the concept of Layers, I'll let you start Texturizer-ing!
Have fun editing images! |
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