Statement Of Intent

For this unit I am going to have to create 10 textures. I am basing these textures upon a modern style theme. A modern style theme would invovle clean, smooth textures. Because my theme is a modern style theme, I will be creating such textures as glass, clean bricks, several metal textures like brushed steel and iron and some other smooth textures, possibly wooden .

Fire Texture

Today we created a fire texture in Photoshop. I started off by making my foreground colour black and my background colour white then selected the render clouds filter. After that i added a gradient map to it going through black, red, orange, yellow then white. I then added a twirl to it by going filter/ distort, twirl. This gave it a bit of motion. I finally took into the liquify option and started bloating parts of it and adding turbulence to make it more lively. here was the final image.

Creating More Textures In Photoshop

To create a rusted iron texture, I started off by creating a document, 900 pixels by 900 pixels with a resolution of 72. I then used the marquee tool and created a thin rectangle stretching from the top of the page to the bottom and then filled that with a reflective gradient of white to dark grey. I then created a new layer and changed my foreground colour to a light grey, then the background colour to a darker grey. With his I did the render clouds filter then crystallised it. I then changed its blend mode to multiply. After this I created another new layer and used a very soft brush, with the opacity of 10% and a dull orange rusty colour, then started stroking from the top of my document to the bottom. This made the iron look rusted. I then went on to changing the blend mode to multiply so it gave it a darker effect.I then used the marquee tool and made the size of the marquee a third of the size of the document. With this I used a soft eraser to gently erase some of the orange down the sides. I then repeated this on the other two thirds of the image but with a feint black soft brush, instead of the eraser. Below is an image of what I tried to achieve in Photoshop

Here is my final outcome.

I then made two more variations of the rusted iron texture.

I then created a rusted brushed steel texture. I start off with the same document dimensions and resolution. After I changed my foreground and background colours to white and a feint orange. I then added a render clouds filter and added some noise to it. After that I added a motion blur to it at an angle to give it the brushed steel effect. Once I had this, I created a new layer and repeated the same process just with a darker orange as the foreground colour. I then changed the blend mode to multiply which made the previous rust, slightly darker. I then did this again but with a very dark orange as my foreground colour and a brown as the background colour. I again changed its blend mode to multiply. This was my final image outcome.