Weathered and or peeling paint effects

[davzke]

Hello,

Currently I am attempting to create posters that resemble vintage signs so I would need to fade and age them and in some cases make the paint appear to be peeling in areas. I have most of the good plugins but have not been able to get the really good effect I want. Any suggestions on how to accomplish this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help.

[Ego Eram Reputo]

For peeling, try the page curl plugin

http://www.getpaint.net/search.html

[RHoward]

I can't help with metal signs, but if you want it to look like an old wood sign, try this:

Plan the shape of the sign. Add noise and duplicate the layer.

Motion blur on the new layer.

Make the design on a new layer.

Merge the wood layers, and place them above the deisgn layer and go crazy with the eraser.

For metal, I guess you could try rendering clouds to simulate rust, but that's the extent of what I've tried.

[Sarkut]

Cracked and peeling paint.

If these Crack Effect brushes seem useful they can be downloaded here:

http://funerals0ng.deviantart.com/art/Crack-Effect-Brushes-59952105

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Extracted from the .rar file with this:

http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

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Removed from the abr file with this:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/abrviewer/files/

Or this:

http://www.easyelements.com/abrview.html

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And used in Paint.NET with the CustomBrushesMini plugin.

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Edited April 9, 2010 by Sarkut