Leather texture and type with Photoshop
A while ago I needed a leather texture for a background I was working on. Since I never made a leather-like background before, I searched on the net for some tutorials and I was surprized to see that there isn’t any. Then I remembered few things from Bert Monroy (many thanks for your Pixel Perfect show)Â tutorials and I put together few things to end up with a pretty nice leather effect. This is quite easy to do in few simple steps… As usual, it all comes to several filters combined in the right order (don’t you just love Adobe Photoshop?). Hope you enjoy this and find it usefull. Let’s get it on with it…
First, we need a new document. Create a new layer then we need to change our foreground color to a really dark brown and our background color to a lighter brown (lighter than the foreground, but still in the dark area). After chosing the colors, go to Filters - Render - Clouds.
After this, go into the Layers Palette and change the opacity of this layer to around 75%. Create a new layer and change the foreground color to a lighter brown (around the current color of your background) and the background to a really lighter brown. Again, go to Filters - Render - Clouds.
Once you did that, go to Layers Palette and change the Blending Mode to Multiply. At this point turn off these 2 layers and click on the background. Press D to reset foreground and background colors to black and white. Go to Filters - Noise - Add Noise. Check Gaussian and Monochromatic, play around with the sliders and hit OK. Values don’t really matter, you will still get the effect. After you applied Noise, go to Filters - Stylize - Emboss. Set and Angle of 45 degrees, Height of 1 and you can play around with the slider for Amount. When you’re ready, hit OK.
Now go again in Filters, but this time in Texture - Craquelure and set the following settings then hit OK.
Turn back on the hidden layers. At this point, this is how your Layers should look like:
Your leather background is already done now. Let’s add some text that looks like is patched with leather. On top of all layers add some text. The color don’t matter, because we will change the Blending Mode.
Now to this text, add the following layer styles:
There you go! The final result should be like this:
Tags: background, leather, text, texture
I’m sorry but it sucks!
With this I can now create a leather bag out of this texture tutorial, and have a new set of bags just tweaking the colors of each bag.
Its always nice to get those things which we did not get even after two to three hours search and research. But when we visit here we just find our required things on your old posts and we get.
I think we got the destination of our photoshop query and tricks
Hi,
I can get this far with my beginner skills, but how do I get a raw used structure to the surface?
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what exactly is the problem? i don’t understand where you got stuck.
FANTASTIC!! Very easy to do and just what I was looking for, thanks alot!
The problem is when selecting the empty background Photoshop errors out with “Could not complete the Add Noise command because the selected area is empty.” I don’t know how you got it to work but that’s as far as I could get with your tutorial. Basically when you make a tutorial, you should test it by performing it step by step per your instructions and verifying that it works before posting garbage.
Mea Culpa! You should fill it with 50% Grey before adding Noise. You can see from the screenshot the grey color.
Thank you for this. Just what I needed.
Tex learn some basic photoshop skills before insulting people who are sharing their skills with you. You must select the background layer in your layer pallette and fill it with a color for noise to work.
Yeah, sorry…but you lost me too. You jumped around, left out steps, assumed we knew more than we did, and left me frustrated and texture-less. I tried it a couple of times, but can’t get the desired affect.
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i cant select the texture. it´s just gray..
you just have to click on the layer you want to select, in the Layers Palette.
Excellent tutorial. I was easily able to adapt this to work with a couple pieces of design work at my job. A quick variation on your original though, try replacing the Texture - Craquelure with Texture - Texturizer using the Rust Flakes texture. (It may not be a default texture for you, but if you go to load textures you should find it in your Photoshop folder.) You’ll have to work on the settings per piece you are working on, and you may need to fix the textures edges as the rust flakes texture isn’t fully seamless, but it’s worth the extra work for the much more realistic end result.
Again, excellent tut, and thanks for sharing.
thanks a lot, very usefull