Chapter 12: Creating Textures and Patterns for Use in Digital Painting

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Overview

When you're learning to paint on the computer, one of the most important skills you can master is being able to create and paint with texture. If you paint with texture, you can produce effects that would be tedious , if not impossible , to do with traditional methods . Not only are you able to create such effects but you can do so quickly.

This chapter will show you how to go about creating custom textures from photographs, by using Photoshop's Pattern Maker and by hand-drawing patterns. While these methods are demonstrated in Photoshop, most of the techniques shown are applicable with other painting applications.

Just so there is no confusion, within Photoshop, textures are called patterns. The terms are interchangeable for our purposes.

In the Chapter 12 folder on the CD-ROM, you'll find a group of textures selected and created especially for this chapter.