Freebie Nature Overlay and Tutorial on creating that Artist Grunge Look
Today's Freebie is a Nature Overlay.
This is what it looks like:
Here is what it looks like adding it over orange paper and playing in the layer's palette options, have fun, use gradients, etc.
Have fun, experiment making your own and building your own collection.
Here is the link to the overlay for those interested.
Now a little tutorial on making your own grunge papers as seen earlier in my blog.
These effects can be use on the above overlay and/or any paper and overlays.
In your layers palette, in the upper left corner, you'll see a drop down option defaulted to NORMAL. Click on that and all these wonderful options appear:
Dissolve, Darken, Multiply, Color Burn, Linear Burn, Screen, Luminosity, etc., etc., etc.
1. You can take a paper, color block, existing photo or whatever and put it on layer one.
2. Then bring another block of color, or a overlay on top and have fun changing the different features until you get a look you like.
The artists grunge backgrounds were created by making my foreground color one color and the background color a different color, then drawing a square to fill the entire space.
3. The go to Filter, Render, Clouds. This will mix up the two colors and both will show like a soft cloudy effect. You can render again, render difference, etc., until you get something you like.
4. I then picked two more different colors, one for the fore ground, one for the back and created a 2nd layer again doing the filter, render, clouds.
5. Then go to layer one and with your magic eraser, tap on the first layer and remove some of the clouds, do this for the 2nd layer also. You should now be able to see all the colors.
6. Now apply the layer palette options, color burn, luminosity, difference, etc. until you get something you like.
7. You can keep going and add a 3rd layer, etc., you get the point.
Have fun!