Photoshop Techniques 018

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they work great for this technique as well. (Sample textures are. shown to the left.) Mac Users: Inside the following folders: Adobe Photoshop …

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Photoshop Techniques
3.0
COVERS
PHOTOSHOP
How to
DRAW ON A
TEXTURED
SURFACE.
We live in a textured world. Every material, every media has
its own unique grain and pattern. Artists and illustrators can
spend hours studying papers for the way they take ink. Yet on
the computer, many illustrations look perfectly smooth and
flat.
It is possible to recreate the feeling of drawing on a textured
surface in Photoshop. Using the following technique, you can
create a special “texture mask” that works with any of the
standard drawing or painting tools.
This example is also an introduction to Photoshop 3.0’s
Channels palette. Walking through this technique is a good
first step in starting to understand how channels can become a
part of your daily Photoshop arsenal.2 Photoshop Techniques #018
Photoshop Channels
Once you start to grasp how Channels work together with the
rest of Photoshop’s tools, you can quickly add variety to your
Photoshop images.
The following technique will quickly introduce you to a few of
the Channel commands. Future issues of Photoshop Techniques
will continue to add to this base as you become more familiar
with this new way of using Photoshop.
Creating a texture mask
Step 1
Create a channel for your texture mask.
This technique will work with any type of Photoshop image.
In this example, we have created a new document with a
white background. This could just as easily have been a
scanned or colored background.
A: Make sure the Channels palette is visible.
If the Channels palette is not visible, choose Show Channels
from the Window menu.
Note: At the bottom of the page you can see an example of the
Channels palette arranged on a standard Macintosh monitor.
B: Click on the New Channel icon.
Photoshop will present you with a Channels option dialog box.
C: Name the channel “Texture Mask.”
Also, turn on the Selected Area option. Click OK to create the
new channel.
Your…