Making textures in paint.net

[Urnemanden]

Hello!

Only a week or 2 ago i began making my own textures. Here is a look:

All of them are created from scratch, and only a little bit real photo editing for roughness and shape has been used. But actually i didnt just want to upload the textures i made and show you them only, - I would like to know if you got any tips or tricks for making textures in Paint.NET, or if you tried/made any textures yourself in paint.NET. Please upload them and show me, eventually tell something about them. if you for an example made a sign with dirt on, then tell the world, how you made it dirty.

And as a start, i will begin telling about my own textures.

The banana leaf

This was the texture i made today. made the shape out of this picture, and then i filled :FillSelection: the shape with a green colour, wich i found from the original picture. Then i added a new layer :AddNewLayer: and made the Stem (look below) of the leaf, using the lasso selection & the gradient tool

To give the leaf some reality, i added some small stripes with the Line/Curve tool :LineCurveTool: , like there is on real leaves. After that, i used fragment blur and then i deleted all small lines that was outside the leaf.

Then i edited some small details, to make it look more realistic, before i did the final step.

I Created a new image and then i copied the leaf shape with fill over to the new image. Then i selected the whole leaf :SelectAll: and used the Outline Selection tool.

I added a new layer, and copied the original leaf over to the new layer, and then i selected the red outline on the old layer.

Then i selected the new layer, and used Gaussian Blur to give the leaf a soft outline. That was nearly all i think. :wink:

The snake plant leaf

This texture was the first one i ever made. I did in on quiet short time. This picture was what inspired me to make the texture. I made the shape myself with the line/Curve tool :LineCurveTool: and then i added some Bulge :Bulge: to it. Then i added a new layer, and copied the shape, hued it to Green. Then i used Gaussian blur to make it smaller and blurred, and at last, i added some roughness & light i made with the Alpha Mask tool. Later i added other details, to make give it different green variations.

The cookie sign

I made this texture for a racing track. The text in it is just an example text, wich he easily can change in the .pdn file. The sign was'nt hard to make, i started to make a square and then i made some kinds of drawings, and used effects on them, to make the square look dusty. For the Brown dust, i copied out some of the grass in this picture and then i used Black And White & Alpha Mask. Then i used Feather & several other effects, such as Silhuette to make it look brown instead of grey. And as final, i used Fragment to make small lines smaller.

The palmtree leaf

This was the 2nd texture i made. I made it because i needed a palmtree texture for a palmtree i made. But while i was making it, my computer frooze down, and then i didn't have the .pdn file anymore.

So there is the png with a white outline, wich i dont know how to get away. After making it, i tried to make something that looked like it, several times, but it never went out that well, as that texture you see above. I can send you the full sized one, if you may know how to fix it.

Ok. i think that was all of them . I hope this helped a lot, but if it didn't anyway, please post a textures you made or are making, so at least i can learn something

I would like to know all this because i am not in the expert or advanced stage making things like textures. I can't make any cool signature for my self, so i just hope that i can become good in texturing and 3D.

Thank you for reading this quiet long topic

[david.atwell]

Moved to the pictorium. Please pay more attention in the future. :-)

[Urnemanden]

Thank you for moving this topic David Atwell. But it looks like no one cares about textures, so your reply might be the last reply to the topic before people forget about it