tylerrose

I just read the "what not to do when posting a subject..." and I think that I fit the bill to a tee. SO! with all that said....

Is there a distressed leather photoshop trick...? How do you do it?


Thanks for the help!

peace
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huma

There is no specific trick that I know of, although I'm sure someone will, point one out if there is.

Mostly I use air-brush. Is there a particular thing you are trying to get to look like distressed leather?

The Coach

As member of a family that has a 217 years history in leather/shoes, I can tell you that distressed leather can have lots of different appearances.
Can you show us a particular example?

tylerrose

First off...thanks for the replies! [righton]

Ok...so here's the deal.

I am doing a packaging project where I want to give the feel of a suitcase that has been around the block a few times....

Any help?

Welles

As a member of a family who has no history at all in shoes...making or wearing... [bustagut] I really don't have a clue but...

I wondered if using the Texturizer filter might help. If you do a complete install of Photoshop, including all the Presets, there are a zillion possible files which you can load into the Texturizer filter. The preset texture files end up in... Applications:Adobe Photoshop CSresets:Textures and another file with the same path, Textures for Lighting Effects. In the Texturizer window you click on the triangle I've circled in green, use Load Texture and navigate to one of those two folders. In TfLE folder there are a couple of leather textures but I didn't think they looked quite right. On a whim I loaded Footsteps in the Textures file and thought it looked pretty good. A few scratches and it might work. If you look at the texture files themselves, you can create one which might work better.

tylerrose

I will try that and keep you posted!

huma

Nice tip Welles. B7

Use that texture and some beating up and you should be all set, designed

Here's a good tutorial that shows you how to beat up metal. Most of the techniques can be used for leather as well.

http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorial/metal_texture/

Now go play and show us what you come up with... [:I

retired_Craig

hey designed,

the link below will take you to the links forum for a FREE plugin for Photoshop. I just DL'd it earlier and tooled around with it, there is a filter in the plugin that may give you what you're looking for -- that is if you want to take the easy way out!

http://photoshopgurus.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6076

Personally, I would try some fo the ideas the others have posted first, but there are a bunch of tutorials on the net that also deal with this type of look. [righton] A good site for tutorials is:

http://www.good-tutorials.com

There are over 1500 different tutorials at that site, there just might be some there dealing with this effect! B7

Good luck! 8))