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Converting noise to texture

Converting noise to texture - Photoshop Tutorial

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Converting noise to texture

In this exercise, I am going to show you how to create this noise pattern that we've created so far using a combination of the Clouds Filter, Add Noise, and Gaussian Blur. That's it. I am going to show you how to convert it into a texture pattern that will then map onto our background butterfly image. I've saved my progress so far as Noise pattern.psd found inside the 16_smooth folder. Once you get done creating your Noise pattern, however you go about doing it, because you don't really have to necessarily use Clouds for example, and you don't have to necessarily use Add Noise. You probably are going to want to use one or the other, but you don't have to use both combined with each other. Noise, however, does require that something be on the layer, in case you decide to use Noise by itself, but you could have used clouds by itself, if you wanted to. Anyway, once you get done creating that noise pattern whatever it may look like, then in order to convert it to a texture, you go up to…

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