Concrete Texture tutorial

[theonlychad 5]

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Concrete Texture
Today we are going to be making this

Plugins required:

Displacement and Alpha Mask

Solarize from Ed Harvey's Effects
Step 1:
Open a new document at 800 x 600.
Step 2:
Select orange for your primary color. Render clouds at these settings in the picture below.

Step 3:
Go to effects/color/solarize
Step 4:
go to adjustments/ black and white.
Step 5:
Go to effects/ distort/ displacement and use the settings in the picture below.

Step 6:
Go to effects/ stylize/ relief and use these settings in the picture below.


There you go, So simple yet brilliant. Always remember you can toy with the brightness and other settings to come up with different outcomes. Hope you guys enjoy this tutorial.

 

 

 

edit 6-16-10: updated link to displacement.

Tutorial rewrite and pdf file coming soon

[flip 2]

Ah c'mon. I made this up. :evil: Except for the relief part, but I did that originally.

[theonlychad 5]

Honestly if you made something similar my steps differ. Also i had some people that wanted a tutorial on how to do the concrete texture that i made. I stumbled upon this method of doing this by experimenting.

[flip 2]

Honestly if you made something similar my steps differ.

I do my way exactly the same.

Also i had some people that wanted a tutorial on how to do the concrete texture that i made.

You said this in PMing:

yeah seeing as you came up with it too i have to have your permission to post a tutorial on it lol.

[theonlychad 5]

if i remember correctly that was regarding the texture in the abstract. Which is also the texture in your current siganture. If you want me to credit you in the tutorial i will. I'm not gonna lower myself to your level by dragging out old p'ms anyways. The is a forum for sharing ideas and techniques not just to learn and not teach something that you may have found out.

[sokagirl 3]

I agree with theonlychad , we should share techniques and ideas . I would if I had some good ones . I see nothing wrong with it :?: Besides Chad's concrete is different from what you have in your signature Flip ..

[Ego Eram Reputo 2,262]

@theonlychad: It is a neat texture. Why don't you post it in Stone 101? With smaller screenshots if you please

@flip: please post your version there too so we can see both.

[theonlychad 5]

sure can do when i get time. Have to work 11 hour nights for the rest of the month

[sokagirl 3]

Ha ha , finally made something ..

[nemo 0]

Nice texture :shock:

[theonlychad 5]

very nice sokagirl

[Gazek 0]

Whoa. Simple, but real good.

[atomik_arts 0]

Sweet.... def going go need this. ive hit concrete physically so many times lol.

[TopHATslash 0]

Ah c'mon. I made this up. :evil: Except for the relief part, but I did that originally.

Are you really whining about this? If you made it up, then you should have posted a tutorial. Been less selfish. :?

Great work chad. Very realistic texture.

[theonlychad 5]

thanks ths... but old argument is old lol... it was settled ages ago and its all good now .

[h3llb0yn3cr0 0]

Really? I really need this!

*sigh* but I can't try this out now, I'm on my school library computer

[Nightwhisper 0]

simple, easy, and can be used in so many ways. i like it good job.

[Matt101840 0]

Uh, not to be a bother. But don't you need to provide a list of what add-ons used in this tutorial, and links to them? I mean I felt I had to tell you this before the mods read my comment and leave you an embarrassing comment. And don't tell me to read the Tutorial Forum Posting Guidelines because I did and there was nothing said about add-ons, but I have seen some comments form the mods saying that they needed add-on lists.

[theonlychad 5]

I wrote this a while back and i guess i didn't notice that i forgot to put a link for displacement

the two other plugins used are built into paint.net so do ask for links for those. I am guess why the mods haven't said anything before is because of the clear indicator in the screen shots that show the names of the plugins(yes i know for a fact that at least one mod has read this tutorial and found nothing wrong with it). Thank you for pointing out that i forgot that one link. Also why would it be an embarrassing comment if the mods left a message they normally either fix it themselves or send you a pm. We are all human and we all make mistakes no need to make a big deal out of it

good day to you sir,

chad

[Bryan1998 1]

Nice Tut

You Are Free To Use It If You Want, It's Seamless You Know

[AdamCG 0]

wow. very simple. very realistic. thx!

[uvah 0]

This is going to sound stupid. I want to do the concrete texture but...................where it says go to effects\color\solarize, there's effect and there's color but no solarize. Unless I'm missing something again.

[Sarkut 6]

Solarize Edited August 16, 2010 by Sarkut

[uvah 0]

Many thanks Sarkut. That's two i.o.u. lol

[PeaceHeather 0]

Step 1:

Open a new document at 800 x 600.

Select orange for your primary color. Render clouds at these settings in the picture below.

May I ask - why orange to start?

Absolutely freakin stunning effect, btw.

Heather