retired_hex

I want to do a picture with a brick wall background and i want it to be realistic does anyone know any good links to a tutorial for it? \:/

FCougar

Hello bblacj and welcome to PSG
There are quite a few ways to do this depending apon the effect you want.
Here are a couple of examples I have made recently, do any look like the type of thing you are looking for?
Click on the images for a larger version.
[img width=200 height=150]http://tao.serveit.org/psg/urban_small.jpg[/img]

This next one has two different walls. The one on the right is the type I think you are looking for.
[img width=225 height=300]http://tao.serveit.org/asylum/cell6_sm.jpg[/img]

namvet

bblacj .. g'day .. and welcome ... more tips and tricks can be found here on this thread

http://www.photoshopgurus.com/forum/...84601#msg84601

am looking forward to seeing your results .. regards .. namvet

retired_hex

thanx Toaboogie and Namvet, you know I could of kicked myself for not going into the texturizer. I seen it a while ago, lack of use means out of mind. Now new problem, I'm using screen mode to put text on my wall but it just seem to have that total written on the wall look. How do I make it more realistic?

FCougar

Just a quick reply as I'm passing, sorry I'm in a dash, so to speak
The wall, as I think I mentioned in the thread namvet supplied, is a real photo, that I made a copy of desaturated it and used that as an alpha channel. I think I may have used the same desat' version to run the dis[place filter on the images too. Not 100% about that though.
Seems like you have a few ideas to start with anyway. It would be good if you came back here with what you have managed to produce and then we can take it from there, if needed, to take it to the next level
Good Luck
Tao

retired_hex

This is what I'm working with. I'm pretty happy with the grass, I want to add a lil fire in the pic and more writting on the wall but I want it to look like its on the wall.

FCougar

Nice work bblacj.
I'm out for the day so I wanted to post this quickie up for you to show the writing on the wall heh so to speak
[img width=600 height=235]http://tao.serveit.org/psg/thewall2.jpg[/img]
I have resized the image for my own practicality but here is a link to the PSD so you can get a better idea of what I have done. Check out the desaturated version in the channels which I used for the lighting effects PSD
I've used two styles of font here as well to show the effect of a better suited font.

retired_hex

you know ToaBoogie that pic opened a can of worms, I got carried away and I'm up to this now.
I got so many ideas racing through my head and I'm not sure if I can do half of them. See I wanna have grafetti for the font. The first pic's font was brooklynkid style but was too light for the wall I was thinking of adding another layer on top of the text and airbrushing over the words to make it show more like it was spayed painted what you think?