Creating and Using Textures for Design

Learn how to collect and enhance real-world textures and integrate them into your digital designs.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. Texture Exploring

• Texture-capturing tools
• Photographing real-world surface textures
• Hunting and gathering found textures
• Continued use of found textures
• Importing your texture photographs in Bridge
• Organizing and managing a texture library

2. Creating Usable Textures

• Building a PSD texture resource file
• Exporting texture file formats

3. Using Textures in Design

• Using textures in Photoshop
• Creating an authentic mosaic texture
• Creating an authentic wood-grain texture
• Creating an authentic painterly texture
• Creating a texture brush in Photoshop
• Using a texture brush in Photoshop
• Using textures in Illustrator
• Subtle texturing in Illustrator
• Illustrator: A texture staging ground
• Experimenting with textures
• Texture-usage examples

4. Challenge

• Challenge: Create a texture design
• Solution: Create a texture design

Conclusion

• Next steps