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need a very very simple texture maker

Postby j2graves » Sun Feb 08, 2009 1:35 am

I wanna be able to draw images using textures that I can make myself easily. it is difficult with paint.
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Re: need a very very simple texture maker

Postby DST » Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:50 am

Get the gimp!

gimpy.jpg
the texture in the background is 'difference clouds'


Clouds and difference clouds are two of the most important elements in a graphic program.

Yes, they're simple two color cloud renderings at first, but you can keep applying more and more difference clouds and come up with crazy shapes. Then you can run filters on the difference clouds, and a simple square pattern becomes a wall of bricks because of the different tones in the clouds.

You can adjust the hue/saturation/contrast of them at any time to get lots of cool textures. You can cut shapes out of them or run them on shapes you already have.

Using a spherize filter, you can make things like planets, golf balls, or anything round, and often a combination of that + a bevel filter can help make non-sphere shapes too(like a horse or something).

The difference clouds will make almost any pattern filters, from snakeskin to fractals, seem way more convincing and real.

Here is a block tutorial i made in photoshop, its very similiar, the difference clouds are still called difference clouds, and i showed you above where to find the filters menu in gimp.

See how the clouds become blocks.

http://www.dreade.org/psblocks/blocktutorial.htm
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Re: need a very very simple texture maker

Postby Kalladdolf » Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:25 pm

Gimp is very nice, almost as good as photoshop and free, though it doesn't have all the features.
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Re: need a very very simple texture maker

Postby Bee-Ant » Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:15 am

You can make texture in Paint with WaterBrush function...anyway, it's difficult though...
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Re: need a very very simple texture maker

Postby j2graves » Thu Feb 12, 2009 7:41 pm

and what about transparencies and semi-transparencies?
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Re: need a very very simple texture maker

Postby Game A Gogo » Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:08 am

Bee-Ant wrote:You can make texture in Paint with WaterBrush function...anyway, it's difficult though...

you probably talking about paint.net or something, ms paint has no such things
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Re: need a very very simple texture maker

Postby Bee-Ant » Sun Feb 15, 2009 10:40 am

Im talking about ms paint...
yeah, you just need more experience to able do it :s
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Re: need a very very simple texture maker

Postby Game A Gogo » Sun Feb 15, 2009 5:26 pm

there is no tool called "Waterbrush" in ms-paint...
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Re: need a very very simple texture maker

Postby Bee-Ant » Mon Feb 16, 2009 4:19 am

Oh sorry...I mean Airbrush :P :oops:
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Re: need a very very simple texture maker

Postby j2graves » Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:21 pm

yeah, I'd need WAY more experience first! =P
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