How to create cool textures for digital creations

Overview

“In the second part of this lesson, we will introduce a second, alternative method to achieve this texture, for those of you who don't own a scanner. This process will take place in Photoshop, from start to finish. ”

In this video lesson Matt McCracken and Ross Proulx addresses the topic: Distressed Overlay Texture 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: How to create cool textures for digital creations. Make your art prints stand out by creating unique and cool textures..

Partial transcription of the video

“Okay, so in the event that you don't have a scanner, so you're not able to bring in a book or dirty piece of paper, we're going to do the distress overlay from start to finish in Photoshop. And while it may not have the same level of randomness and uniqueness that you'd get from true distress, there are a couple of tips and techniques that we can show you. And that's going to give you a certain level of authenticity, and it'll also look random enough. So we're just going to open our document here. We're going to go to print, A4, 600. We're going to kind of mimic that we're doing this scan a...”

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Course summary for: How to create cool textures for digital creations

• Level: Beginner
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• 850 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (2h 38m)
• 3 downloads

• Category

  Design

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Art Direction, Graphic Design, Poster Design