Sarah Clemens

Description, Texture:

To create this texture I first began by creating a new layer and making the foreground color white and the background color black. Then, I added a cloud filter and faded the clouds. After this, I also applied a grain texture found in the texture menu under filter and changed the grain type to “clumpy.” Then, holding down “alt” I selected “add new adjustment” and selected “pattern.” Here, I changed the mode to overlay and selected “ok” to have a new menu come up called the “Pattern fill dialog.” In this menu I changed the scale to about 130 and selected “optical checkerboard” as my pattern clicked “append.” In the layers palette, I changed the opacity of this layer to 50. With this layer still selected I added clouds and faded the clouds again and added an artistic filter called “watercolor.” Next, I selected an “add new adjustment layer” again and clicked on “brightness/contrast” and selected “OK” without adjusting anything. Then I went back to layer styles again, adjusted the blend mode, opacity, and scale, and selected my “optical checkerboard” again from the “pattern fill” box. Next, I checked “bevel and emboss” and “texture.” In the “bevel and emboss” menu I left the scale at 100 and changed the style to “emboss.” In the texture menu I changed the depth to 1,000 (as high as it will go) and adjusted the scale to 184. Then, I selected the “add new adjustment layer” again, added clouds and fade clouds again as well, and went back to the pattern dialogue box. This time, I scaled it to 100 and adjusted the opacity so that it would only be 18. I selected the same checkerboard design for the pattern. I also selected the “bevel and emboss” option again and I changed the style to “emboss” and increased the depth to 174.All of these repeated, and continuously adjusted steps, allowed me to end with the texture that I have for my assignment.