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Jul052008
Stone texture with Photoshop in under a minute
Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 12:17PM 
This one is even faster than creating a paper background with Adobe Photoshop. It's just about applying 3 filters in the right places and the right order. Simple as that! The beauty is that you can repeat the steps countless times and you will always get a new and different result each time. Let's see what and how we do it...Â
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First, open a new document... mine is 400x400 px for the sake of space, but it works the same with any size. Set you foreground and background colors to their default values (press D). Go to Channels palette and create a new channel. It will be automaticly named Alpha 1. Select this channel and we will do few things here.
Go to Filter - Render - Clouds.
Now go to Filter - Render - Difference Clouds.
Press Ctrl + F to repeat this step as many times until you get a lot of veins.
Now that's all you do into this Channel. Hide it, go back to the RGB channel and your Layers palette.
Pick a color for your texture and fill the background with it.
Go to Filter - Render - Lighting Effects.
In the new window that pops up, make sure the Light Type is set to Directional and Texture Channel chose from the list our Alpha 1 channel. The rest is up to you... play with the sliders, see what kind of cool effects you may get and hit OK when you're happy with it.
Here's the final result... it's been one minute already? There you go... what Adobe Photoshop can do in less than one minute.
Reader Comments (47)
wow. i'm lingering on the site for a while. You've got tons of tuff for me to get thru. congrats!
hey thats really cool, i would love to try it myself tonite. thanks for the great tutorial to do this.
Dude that is WAY COOL! Thanks for the excellent tutorial!
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Wow. That's pretty cool, and very simple.
Although, in my opinion, it looks more like paper, crumpled up.
To make it look more like paper, maybe do less "veins" with the difference clouds.
Regardless, very nice tutorial.
Thanks for sharing =]
thank you all for your comments. glad to see it's all easy to follow.
wow thank you man i am a photoshop lover and u are me second love :D
thank you from sharing thi tutorial with us very nice stone effect
Marvelous!!!
Incredible easy and simple.... when you know :)
Cheers !!!
It looks cool!
If you can do that, i believe i also can do the same thing like you. Its simple. Just we don't know how to do that. Looks like i will do some try and error to get a same result like you.
Awesome Tutorial! I had no idea how to do this but I'm glad to find this. I really enjoy photoshop so this will be something I can use in my graphics! Thanks!
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