Learn how to create your own tiger fur. Category: Design

Learn how to create your own tiger fur.

Step 1: Start out a new 300 by 300 px , 72 dpi, RGB file. set your colors to the default by hitting "D" on your keyboard. Grab the rectangle tool and drag in a small square, make it about 20 X 20 px (hold shift to make it a perfect square.) Now go to Edit> Free Transform (ctrl + T) and go up to the Options bar. Set the Rotation to 45 degrees And hit commit Transform Go to EDIT > Define Custom Shape... and name the shape Diamond - and click ok Right + Click on the Rectangle Tool and choose the Custom Shape Tool go up to the options bar again and click the little arrow next to the icon of the active shape. toward the bottom of the list you will find the Diamond shape you created - click on it and stay in the options bar and click Add to shape area - button Now use the tool to create a belt of little diamonds of all shapes and sizes.


Step 2: NExt go to EDIT > Free Transform (Ctrl + T) and set the width to 150% , Height to 1500%, Horizontal to -20. then proceed to click commit transform.


Step 3: Go to Layer> Rasterize > Shape - this converts the vector layer into an ordinary pixel layer. Got to Filter > Distort > Wave... and make these settings:


Step 4: Choose Select > All (Ctrl + A) and the Image > Crop. Move on to Filter > Distort > Twirl... and set the Angle to 35 degrees


Step 5: Continue on with Filter > Blur Gaussian Blur... Set the Radius to 2. Move over to the Layers palette and set the blendmode of the layer to Multiply and the Opacity to 80%. Stay in the Layers palette and activate the Background layer by clicking on it. Right+click on the Paintbucket Tool and choose the Gradient Tool from the menu.


Step 6: When finished head back to the Options bar and check tha the Linear Gradient-button is active. Use the tool by dragging from the top of the image to the bottom.


Step 7: To make the fur go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise... Set the Amount to 25 %, the Distribution to Gaussian and check Monochromatic. Move on to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur... Set the Angle to 55o and the Distance to 10 pixels. Go to Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen and then Ctrl+click on the layer with the stripes to bring up its selection. Go to Filter > Sharpen (Ctrl+F) and remove the selection with Select > Deselect (Ctrl+D).

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