Tips and Tutorials for PSP 8

Tiger Skin Texture

This tutorial is NOT to be scripted or made into a "Quick Guide" unless it is for your own personal use.

To do this tutorial you will need a working knowledge of PSP. If you are new to PSP, or have a problem doing this tutorial, you can find me at Raven's PSP Forum, be happy to help you out.

You also need 2 Gradients, Tiger and Fawn.
Download, unzip the files and place them in your gradients folder.
Click here to download. Click here to download.

Step 1

Open a new image 350 X 350.
Set the background to Transparent.

Step 2

Open your Materials Palette and find the mqc Tiger gradient.
For "Style" click on Linear.
Set the "Repeats" to 1.
Set the Angle to 231.

Go to Layers>New Raster Layer.
Flood fill your new layer.

Step 3

Go to Effects>Distortion Effects>Wave.
Distort your gradient some.

Step 4

Go to Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur
Set it to 15.

Step 5

Go to Adjust>Add/Remove Noise>Add Noise.

Step 6

Go to Effects>Texture Effects>Fur.

Step 7

Go to Adjust>Blur>Motion Blur

Step 8

Go to Layers>New Raster Layer.
Set your Foreground Color to Black.
Draw some black stripes.
I used the Paint Brush

with these settings.
Experiment, you can probably get better results...:)

Step 9
I used the Warp Brush

set to Contract to adjust the look of my lines.

Step 10

I went to Adjust>Blur>Blur More and then Motion Blur set to 20.
Just experiment.

Step 11

Go to Layers>New Raster Layer.
Open your Materials Palette and find the mqc Fawn gradient.
For "Style" click on Linear.
Set the "Repeats" to 3.
Set the Angle to 113.
Flood Fill your new layer.

Step 12

Use a Gaussian Blur of about 25.

Step 13

Click the small arrow next to Normal on Raster 3, set the Layer Blend Mode to Overlay.
Lower the Opacity on the layer until you get a look you like.

That's it, you're done.:)

Experiment, and have fun!

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