Lynda - Creating and Using Textures for Design with Von Glitschka

For all the benefits computers provide, the designs that result from an all-digital workflow can come off as too clean and too cold. By reintroducing natural elements in your artwork, you can bring back an authentic and tactile visual quality. In this course, Von Glitschka shows how to collect and enhance real-world textures and integrate them into your digital designs. Great texture is all around; Von will teach you how to hunt for it, in nature and in places as unlikely as a parking lot. Once you've captured your textures, he'll show you how to convert them into formats suitable for a digital workflow, and put them to use in assorted Photoshop and Illustrator designs.

Topics include:

Photographing real-world surface textures  

Importing texture photographs with Adobe Bridge  

Organizing a library of textures  

Building a PSD texture resource file  

Creating wood-grain and painterly textures  

Using a Photoshop texture brush  

Using textures in Illustrator