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Creating Layered Tiled Sand in Photoshop 6.0 (continued)

Dated 14 July 2005
Author: Jason Gonzalez

  1. We will name the new layer "highlights" (without the quotes) and dab the highlight color onto the new layer
    1. Control-click (right-click) the layer and select Layer Properties. A dialog box will come up. Under Name: type highlights
    2. For this, we use white as the color
    3. We can use an Airbrush setting of Brush Size: 27, Pressure: 100 and Mode: Normal. How it looks is pictured below:
      4. Airbrushed highlights
    4. Next, we apply the Overlay blend mode found in the drop-down box at the top of the layers palette
      5. Overlay blend mode
      Overlayed highlights
  2. We must apply the Add Noise filter to the background color
    1. Apply Add Noise Amount: 155, Gaussian and Monochromatic to the background layer
      2. background with Add Noise
  3. We can now Offset the "highlights" layer
    1. We go to Filter > Other > Offset and offset vertically and horizontally 72 pixels
      2. Offset highlights

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