Source:

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/designing-tutorials/quick-tip-create-a-carbon-mesh-background-in-photoshop/

It is one thing to do the photoshop tutorials and another thing to be able to recreate the work from memory. In this one I tried to combine past exercises …. the the knife, the wood pattern, and the wrinkled paper.  click it to enlarge.

Source: http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/drawing/create-a-knife-in-photoshop/

Learned the ctrl+j shortcut to duplicate selection to new layer.

Good pen tool practice.

Adding noise with motion blur makes the striations on the blade.

Gaussian blur gives the whole thing a bit of glow.

Stroked paths make the crack in the wall.

Dodge and burn tool on the handle to shadow it.

I turned the wood image from this tutorial into a seamless pattern then added a piece of crumpled and torn paper. Just trying to improve my Photoshop expression skills.

When I see interesting natural patterns in the real world sometimes I will take photos of them with my phone and upload them to my Flickr account… today I finally found a great tutorial on how to make seamless background images from the patterns. Here is the tutorial.

I have seen other seamless background tutorials but this one seemed to make the easiest job of it.

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