How do I make sand in Photoshop?

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Mary
Jul 3, 2007
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Hi

I am a bit of a newbie with Photoshop but can do the basics.

I need to create sand for a book cover I want to design. Ideally I would like to airbrush the sand on top of another image.

Is this at all possible? Do I have any other options?

Any help appreciated

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John McWilliams
Jul 3, 2007
Mary wrote:
Hi

I am a bit of a newbie with Photoshop but can do the basics.
I need to create sand for a book cover I want to design. Ideally I would like to airbrush the sand on top of another image.
Is this at all possible? Do I have any other options?

Any help appreciated
Take or obtain a small sample of an image of sand. Create a brush with it. fire away!

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ronviers
Jul 3, 2007
On Jul 3, 11:14 am, Mary wrote:
Hi

I am a bit of a newbie with Photoshop but can do the basics.
I need to create sand for a book cover I want to design. Ideally I would like to airbrush the sand on top of another image.
Is this at all possible? Do I have any other options?

Any help appreciated

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Hi Mary,
A perlin layer Gaussian at 75% and another at 125% blended with darken and a third layer filled with sand color of your choice and blended with color will make some nice sand.

Good luck,
Ron
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Bob Williams
Jul 9, 2007
Mary wrote:
Hi

I am a bit of a newbie with Photoshop but can do the basics.
I need to create sand for a book cover I want to design. Ideally I would like to airbrush the sand on top of another image.
Is this at all possible? Do I have any other options?

Any help appreciated
You can take a photo of some real sand.
Paste it over your book cover at an opacity of 10% or whatever looks good. Bob Williams
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Tom Nelson
Jul 9, 2007
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A perlin layer Gaussian at 75% and another at 125% blended with darken and a third layer filled with sand color of your choice and blended with color will make some nice sand.

What’s a perlin layer, Ron?
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ronviers
Jul 9, 2007
On Jul 9, 11:56 am, Tom Nelson
wrote:
In article ,

<""> wrote:
A perlin layer Gaussian at 75% and another at 125% blended with darken and a third layer filled with sand color of your choice and blended with color will make some nice sand.

What’s a perlin layer, Ron?

Hi Tom,
I assumed the noise generated by the filter>noise was Perlin noise just because it looks like Perlin noise but I could be wrong. Come to think of it the filter>add clouds also looks like Perlin noise but with a different profile curve and scale so I should have been more specific
It makes some pretty nice sand. I think I could play around with stretching an filter>add clouds layer and get some nice winds streaks and ripples.

Brgds,
Ron
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ronviers
Jul 9, 2007
On Jul 9, 11:56 am, Tom Nelson
wrote:
In article ,

<""> wrote:
A perlin layer Gaussian at 75% and another at 125% blended with darken and a third layer filled with sand color of your choice and blended with color will make some nice sand.

What’s a perlin layer, Ron?

I went ahead and gave it a shot using a couple of stretched render>clouds layers.
It doesn’t look too bad and only takes a minute.
BTW, I labeled the layers with their properties in that can be seen in the palette if you click on the ‘Download Photo’ link to the right of the image.

http://picasaweb.google.com/ronviers/Sand/photo#508529534269 3561298
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Tom Nelson
Jul 11, 2007
In article ,
<""> wrote:

I went ahead and gave it a shot using a couple of stretched render>clouds layers.
It doesn’t look too bad and only takes a minute.
BTW, I labeled the layers with their properties in that can be seen in the palette if you click on the ‘Download Photo’ link to the right of the image.

http://picasaweb.google.com/ronviers/Sand/photo#508529534269 3561298

Nice effect, very realistic. Thanks, Ron!
Tom

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