Concrete Texture tutorial

[dug]

Finally managed to get the displacement plug-in.Great tute! Now I can do the other tutorials that this is the basis for.Cool.

[dynojuggler]

I used this in conjunction with my Rust tutorial to make a super corroded metal surface.

Thank you for showing us how to create such a simple and realistic looking effect!

Edited April 7, 2011 by dynojuggler

[HELEN]

I love texture tutorials because I use them so often in my books. Thanks again for such a great tut!

[gfx3d]

Very nice tutorial, i love the way explained

[iwilleatyou]

Good.

[doughty]

Hi

Hit relief and wow - very realistic.

And all done on one layer!

 

Edit: Posted image.

Edited September 7, 2013 by doughty

[jim100361]

At the end of the tutorial I adjusted the brightness and then toyed with the curves without any expected outcome and got what appears to me to be a slight sandy effect.

[doughty]

Hello

I redid the tut but used plain black and white image background and it made my image way more interesting.

And of course I tried it on a few other blah pictures and I think they all looked better for it.

 

Thanks for the tut.

 

Edit: Re-posted image.

Edited September 7, 2013 by doughty

[JadedLemon]

This was cool, and so simple to do. Thanks.

[nitenurse79]

A great tutorial and also useful for creating a chrome texture too

[jim100361]

A great tutorial and also useful for creating a chrome texture too

It's funny what this invokes in my mind. My dad used to work for our newspaper and years ago when I was just a little tike he would often go in on Friday nights to do some advertisement work for the Saturday paper. Anyways, periodically my mom would take one of us (children) w/her to go pick him up after work. Often times we were there a good while before he would quit for the night so I was able to see some of what was going on there. Back in those days the ads that my dad worked on weren't done by computer. He'd give his work to another gentleman who would type out the stuff on a machine that made the lead typset. Anyways, the letters in your pic, even though they aren't connected as though created as a single piece, remind me of those pieces that came out of the machine: clean and pristine w/o any ink applied to them yet.

In case you're curious, here's a pic of the type of machine that was used:

http://upload.wikime...ing_Machine.jpg

Anyways, I like your piece, and "thanks for the memories!"

Edited February 1, 2012 by jim100361

[delpart]

Okay now all I can see is manual type set as well ... My father did that many many years ago in one of his many odd jobs before finishing graduate school etc. I can almost smell the ink.

Thanks for the double whammy you two.

[nitenurse79]

Thank jim & delpart

@jim, that is one funky looking machine

[mickysaaz11]

Nice tutorial but it's kinda simple but it helped.

[bEPIK]

Neat.

[rizal23]

It's a texture similar to concrete reality. A good tutorial.

[Rusecorbelia]

I have tried to do this tutorial but the displacement plugin doesn't look or behave at all like you say it does so I have hit a wall (pardon the pun). I also have a couple other comments.

1.The other two adjustments do not in fact come built in to Paint.Net v3.5.10 because I had to go looking for them.

2. Also you have no screen shots of the work in progress so we have no idea what each step is supposed to look like.

I know it has been a while since you last updated this but I would really appreciate a response.

[Rusecorbelia]

Addendum to my earlier comment, the alpha-displacement effect is actually in the effects root menu, not under distortions and is still different to your screen shots but is at least close enough for me to figure it out.

I used pyrochild's amazing gradient mapping plugin instead of solarize and black and white.

[barbieq25]

Chad doesn't come here any more, sadly. I think he did this in an earlier version but I am sure that it worked for me. Maybe I did it with the earlier version too but once done I have kept it to use as the basis for many other effects. Also saved copies in more than one location in case I lose one or save over the top of it.

[minners71]

Never tried this one before but have to say great work on finding this out its amazing how the texture pops out at you as soon as you use the relief effect.

[barbieq25]

Me too!

[SAND33P]

Excellent tutorial, will be using this in future works!

[Hussein Horack]

effects>colour>solarize? I don't have that effect ?_?

[Ego Eram Reputo]

You're right, it's not a built in effect but a plugin.  You'll find it in this plugin pack Ed Harvey's Effects.

 

Updated the tutorial to link to the plugins

[jayanam]

A good tutorial for concrete. To add a bit more realism you culd add another layer for details and don't make the main layer too crispy. Here is an example of a texture:

 

Dark Concrete Texture