Use Photoshop to make armor textures (multiple images)

There are some patterns in Photoshop that you can apply to an image by performing the fill command or pattern overlay layer style. But many times these original "patterns" do not meet our needs, so we need self-control, today's exercise is to introduce a "custom pattern" application examples.

1. Start Photoshop CS, create a new 300x300 canvas, fill with orange color. Sets the foreground color to white, use the Pencil tool to draw a vertical line segment, then copy the segment, and perform the edit → Free transform command, rotate the segments, 120° the angle interval, and combine all the segments together to form a piece of armor, as shown in Figure 1.

Fig. 11 Pieces of Armor

2. Perform the edit → Free transform command again, enlarge the armor to fill the canvas, press the Ctrl+e key to merge the armor with the background layer into a layer, and then perform the filter → other → offset command to apply the displacement filter, in the pop-up "displacement" dialog box to adjust the parameters of the arbitrary adjustment, as long as not 0 can be.

3. When you apply the "offset" filter to find that the armor pattern becomes cluttered, we need to patch the pattern using the marquee tool and the Pencil tool, as shown in Figure 2. Some readers will ask why you apply the "offset" filter. That is to make the future seamless texture effect, of course, not every pattern needs to apply the "displacement" filter, depending on the needs.

Figure 2 Applying the "offset" filter to Armor

4. Following the "edit → definition pattern" command, enter the pattern name in the Pattern Name dialog box that pops up. Then create a new layer to fill any color, click the Add Layer Style button at the bottom of the Layer palette to add a pattern overlay style to the new layer, and in the Layer Style dialog box, select the pattern you just created. Complete the texture of the armor, the effect is shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3 Final effect