Land / Sea Fill Textures

[Robbie]

Figured I'd contribute one of my favorite seamless texture methods.

Photoshop:

• Press D for default colors (black and white)
• Filter -> Render -> Clouds
• Filter -> Render -> Difference Clouds
• Ctrl-F a bunch of times to repeat difference clouds over and over.
• Filter -> Other -> High Pass (evens out highs and lows, play with the slider)
• Ctrl-A to select all
• Ctrl-V to paste a copy onto a different layer
• Click on Channels tab, and create a new channel
• Ctrl-V to create a copy of the clouds on a channel.
• back to the first layer
• Render - Lighting Effects
• -Choose the channel you created as a texture channel, set height to 8 or so.
• -Set light to directional, and choose an angle (top left for this example)
• Switch to the copied layer (the one you didn't do lighting effects on)
• Filter -> Brush Strokes -> Accented Edges (edge width 1, experiment with other settings)
• Set that layer to overlay on top of textured layer and adjust transparency until happy.

[RPMiller]

Very nice texture. Has PhotoShop always automatically produced seamless textures? I could have sworn I used to have to use offsets to make them seamless.

[Robbie]

most of the filters are seamless...the ones that generate random pixels definitely are such as clouds and difference clouds...a lot of the texturing and processing stuff isn't seamless...and I don't think any of the layer effects are seamless.

[ravells]

I really like that texture, Robbie. Will be playing with it later.