While working on a recent freelance job, I stumbled upon a great website, MY Ink BLOG, with some realistic texture tutorials for grass, wood, stone and water. Andrew Houle, the creator of the site uses various filters in each of these tutorials to achieve the desired results.
Specifically, the following are the texture tutorials:
Creating a Realistic Water Texture in Photoshop
Creating a Realistic Wood Texture Using Photoshop
Creating a Realistic Stone Texture Using Photoshop
Create an Awesome Grass Texture in Photoshop
The site has a great selection of Photoshop tutorials as well as so many other resources for Illustrators and Designers, that could be valuable in future. Make sure you check it out!
Do you know any good websites for creating textures or have any “tricks” you use to save time on your illustrations?
I can’t count the times I’ve had to copy and paste in grass texture from a photo. This is much better – good find!
Theres a site called PSDTuts, which issues a newsletter full of useful tutorials like this. Theyre also on Facebook.
PSDTuts gets a nod from me. I’ll have to add that to the resources page.