Granite Texture Tutorial

This is a tutorial for a granite like image.

First make a new image, I made mine 500x500px.

Now press D to reset the swatches to it's default colour.

Now apply a Clouds filter by going to Filters > Render > Clouds

Next go to Filter > Distort > Glass and use these settings
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/stqcb/Glass.jpg

Now go to Image > Adjustments > Levels and increase the contrast so that it will look something like this.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/stqcb/Levels.jpg

After that go to Filter > Brush Strokes > Accented Edges and use these settings
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...entedEdges.jpg

Go to Filter > Brush Strokes > Angled Strokes now and use these settings
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ledStrokes.jpg

Next go to Filter > Stylize > Find Edges

And finally, go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with a setting between 1 and 2.

This is what I got with the above steps.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/stqcb/Final.jpg

whoaa thats actually pretty sweet man, good job!

Very cool tutorial, comes out with a great result, it is very realistic. Thanks for submitting, please write some more, they are good.

Verry cool , it make's me think of feathers somehow. Nice tut ! ;)

Thanks for the great comments! :)

Feathers? :huh:

Looks good :) i might use it some day :)

MYeah , somehow it looks a bit like feathers , but then yet again , I'm a bit crazy :P

Nice..this works great for textures :D