Preserved Topic: A little help.

Well I've been trying to generate a wall, at the moment it's brick that has the look of decay or wear and tear to it.

I saw one on a show, on HGTV and I wanted to create it in Photoshop for a background I'll be using when I develop some 3d renderings of fantasy characters.

The wall itself was probally stucco but it had like a molded part to it. Below is what I have generated so far and if any of you guys can help me out and lead me in a better direction to pull of the effect I want, please do so.




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An example, what I'm going for in ways more than none.

added the stucko picture trial and the brickwall example

[This message has been edited by digitallylegit (edited 08-06-2001).]

I have a few suggestions...

the edge of the wear... where the brick has corroded away, I think it would look better if it appeared more... what's the word... 90 degrees is all I can think of. See, the line you have drawn for the erosion just doesn't sit right with me and what I think a brick wall does. Try following the lines of the bricks in some places... so it's not just like brick isn't there anymore, but rather that the brick WAS there, but it fell out. Does that make any sense? less of a sweeping stroke with a brush, more of an up-close following of the brick's texture lines. Certainly this doesn't have to be everywhere... but much more than there is now.

The texture looks too smooth... bricks aren't smooth... maybe add a noise filter at a setting of 5 or 10% (real low) will give it something of a grainy quality.

Vary the brick colors. If you look at a brick wall, it's not all the same shade of red. This may take some time, changing brick colors by hand, but it may be worth it in the end.

I'm a little confused by the green... is that supposed to be grass? You mentioned stucco... maybe make that green into a light gray.

The drop shadow doesn't look right to me... maybe I'm wrong, but it gives me the impression that the bricks are really really thin... like paper thin. Maybe add a little something to the whole composition that gives it that 3D feel... like a brick sitting on top of another rotated to face your view point a bit.

These are just ideas... take em or leave em.

Well I'm not to certain on how I'll be able to change the brick colors but I did realize that they do need to alternate in places, I looked at some pictures on google.com

The stucco background I did gives it more of a 3d feel to the wall itself.

The green part is to be mold but I guess I didn't really pull that off to wall.



The first step to living a happy, lifeless life is admitting you have no life.

OK. Here`s my $.02.

First, the effect I believe you`re looking for can be done with the displace filter, or possibly just lighting effects.

On changing the brick colors, make a nice tight selection, and adjust either hue/saturation, or curves. then move the selection to another brick, and do it again.

On the mold, it tends to grow in the path of least resistance. There`s lots of kinds of mold, but most tend to like dark, damp areas, so they would grow best in the areas of the wall that provide these. ( i.e., the mortar joints, and shadows from the brick ) and spread from there. As opposed to in a lagre straight lined area as shown. ( like what HS said.)

On giving it some depth, try using the magic wand with the tolerance set low (say 2-5 to start) and on a new layer, fill the selection with a lighter green. Then you can experiment with layer modes, and opacity.

Hope this helped.



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