Blending modes and filters in most high end photo editing programs like PhotoShop, Paint Shop Pro are very powerful, if you know how to apply them, They can accomplish a lot in a very short matter of time when creating textures.

One filter that seems to get used allot but never really used properly is the emboss filter feature. Their result on any image in my mind is used best as giving any plain object three dimensional qualities. Using it as blending overlays on top of other texture element(s) or can be used as a base layer for other textural elements that are blended on top of in the form of an overlay(s).

The Celtic boarder is a black and white vector graphic created in Illustrator(above in the diagram) was imported into Photoshop, blured very little and then a emboss filter was applied (Angle = -90, Height = 2 pixels, Amount =130). Then other texture elements were overlaid with different blending modes such as Multiply and Overlay with different percentages of transpierces. You can eventually see the carved wooden panel emerge from a simple black and white graphic.

I hope this will help some one in future, with their texturing endeavors.

Message edited on: 05/30/2004 11:51