Pointillism - Texture

Among others, one of the most frequent questions I get is how I made the background beneath the logo of Web Studio on the old site header and footer of all pages of the site. Well, I set out to decipher the mystery.

Vale clarify that it is not a simple effect to explain, but I’ll try to describe all the steps as best I can. If you still do not fell like in the example you came or not at all, you can use the Discussion Forum to ask questions.

1. Created a new document, and having selected default colors (Pressing D), apply the Filter> Render> Clouds. We need to get an effect in which there is equal amount of dark and light colors, so we press CTRL + F until you get an image like this. Then give the color tone we like, if we go to Image> Adjust> Hue / Saturation… and mark the box Colorize. Modify the values to get.

What I used are Hue: 220, Saturation: 50, Lightness: -10.

2. We spent the palette Channels and create a new one. Then, take the tool Rectangular Selection and within the channel, make a selection 22×22 pixels. Invert the colors with CTRL + I.

Deselect tool and chose the Circular Selection, and make a circle (holding down SHIFT ) inside the square we just did. We return to invert the colors.

Finally, we again take the tool Rectangular Selection, choose the full square, invest colors and we will Edit> Define Pattern.

3. Created a new Channel and fill it with the chart we just did, for it will Edit> Fill and Use we choose Pattern.

If you are using Photoshop 6, in addition, they will have to expand the window of the Patterns and choose you just did.

4. We are back where we had our back and we’ll Layer> Duplicate Layer. Thereupon apply Filter> Pixelate> Mosaic and the amount put 22.

Then, load the selection of the Channel last we create. We can do this two ways:

1) Go to the palette Channels and while you press CTRL, we make a click on the Channel.

2) We’re going to Select> Load Selection and Channels chose Alpha2.

5. Then copy (CTRL + C) and paste (CTRL + V) in a new layer. We should not notice any difference, unless we have a new Layer. Now delete the previous layer, which is in the middle and see what we are getting closer.

6. Going to background Original and we apply a Blur (Filter> Blur> Gaussian Blur) of 5 or 6 pixels. As a last step, so we can only change the blending mode of the layer of circles Normal to Screen. So the effect is very strong, so he lowered the transparency up to 15% or less to taste.

Pointillism - Texture