How to make an old worn out brick texture in paint.NET

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puppyofkosh

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Okay, here is a tutorial on how to make an old brick texture in paint.NET from a real picture. This is my first tutorial. There was a tutorial that did something similar to this(made worn out bricks) but it was for photoshop.

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Okay First you need to make a new picture. Go to file>>new then in the height and width text boxes type in 1024.

First in the background layer make sure that you have black and white as your colors in the color window.

Then make some clouds by going to effects>>clouds. Leave everything at default and hit OK.

After that emboss it by going to effects>>emboss. The direction of it does not matter so hit OK.

You should now have a rough stone-like surface. That looks like this...

See next post for more...

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Now go to levels by going to adjustments>>levels.

After that try to make the image a little brighter by raising the bar on the right slightly.

Alright now make a new layer by pressing ctrl + shift + n

Now find two yellow/orangey colors, not too dark though. Once you have one, set it as your primary color. Then set the other as the secondary color.

Now make some clouds by going to effects>>clouds. Leave everything as default.

Now set that layer to multiply by clicking on properties in the layers window and then set the blend mode to multiply. Multiply makes white transparent. But, while you have that menu open, lower the opacity (I lowered mine to 210). Here is a pic of what you should have so far.

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Now make a new layer by pressing ctrl + shift + n

Get yourself a brick picture(preferably bigger than the texture size) or you can use this one. Its just a photograph of bricks that I took. Image attached

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Now do file>>open and bring in the bricks.

Then in the top right corner you should see two tabs, your image and the bricks.

Use the square selection tool and select the whole image.

Copy it (ctrl + c)

Go to the other tab.

Paste it (ctrl + v)

DO NOT EXPAND THE CANVAS SIZE

Resize it so it fits in your view. Hold down shift while you resize to keep it proportional.

Close the other tab by pressing the “x” in the top right of it.

Make sure you have the brick layer selected and then go to adjustments>>black and white.

Set the layer to multiply. and lower the opacity a little just like for the yellow clouds you just made.

Here is what it should look like.

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Now, make a new layer.

Go back to black and white as your colors.

Do the cloud effect by going to effects>>clouds.

This time make it a little more rough by raising the “roughness” (I used 70).

Set the layer to color burn and lower the opacity to around 50.

Now its time to make it look sort of old and mossy.

Select a very light green color as your primary and white as the secondary.

Make some clouds by going effects>>clouds once again make it more rough than before, this time I used 85.

Set the layer to multiply and lower keep the opacity at 255.
Here is what you should have…

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Now all to do is make the bottom of it look a bit darker than the top.

Make a new layer by doing ctr + shift + n.

Use black and white as your two colors.

make a gradient with black on the bottom.

Set the layer to color burn and lower the opacity to a number from 75 to 150.

Your done!

To perfect it play around with the opacities of the different layers until you get something you like. I also tried setting some of the layers to multiply instead of color burn. Here is my final result.

Now all you have to do import it into FPSC.