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Rendering Blue Slate tile with Photoshop 7.0 (continued)

Dated: 13 April 2008
Author: Jason Gonzalez

  1. We can now apply the Palette Knife filter with these settings: Stroke size: 30, Stroke detail: 3, Softness: 9. It is a good idea to vary these settings dependent on the intensity of the Dodging and Burning.
  2. Add Noise; Amount: 2%, Gaussian and Monochromatic
  3. Filter > Distort > Glass. Distortion should be set to 4, Smoothness: 7, Texture: Frosted, Scaling: leave at 100%
    1. Glass filter dialog box
  4. Finally, we apply a Gaussian Blur at 0.3 pixels
  5. The final look is pictured below:
    1. Final look

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