Photoshop Tips and Tricks #4: Realistic Preset Textures
Photoshop comes with preset textures like this one, called Snake Skin: These grayscale PSD files are seamless patterns and don’t usually look like much, but that’s because they’re meant to be used in conjunction with the basic Photoshop tools. For instance, you can use the snake skin texture as a texture channel when rendering Lighting Effects (Filter > Render > Lighting Effects) and get this: Or you can load the texture into the Texturizer (Filter > Texture > Texturizer…) and…