Emberotic's favorite links to freebies...by Emberotic

1.The Scrappin Cop misc array of goodies

2. DeviantArt.com Awesome place for just about all your photoshop needs. Styles, Gradient, Brushes, Textures, Stock Photos, etc

3. BRUSHES Hair, Wings...etc

4. http://www.2textured.com/main.php?g2_itemId=776 at 2Dtexture

5. Archivetextures.net

6. Brodatz Textures some really nice grey scale ones to recolor!

7. CGTextures.com

8. Photoshop Brushes

9. Brushesdownload a bit of every thing

10. Osidian Dawn Resources

11. 123 Free Brushes

Brushes, Styles, Patterns, Gradients

Brushes

Styles

Patterns

Gradients

Plugins

Plugins

Deviantart has many free items designed by its members


Best resource is to Google what you are looking for, whether a Brush, Style, Pattern or Gradient.

Texture Replication Video by Mr_Rasa_MM

Pinstripes by __SaraH__

Here I've started with a 32x32 file

Fill this with black..this is so the lines we're going to create are visible.

Create a new blank layer, and with the line tool set at about 3px......draw 2 lines like so.

Make these right in the centre but not touching the top........merge the 2 layers containing the lines (not the black layer) then duplicate twice.....move these new layers either side of the original.

Now hide the black layer and hit "edit" and "define pattern"

Give your pattern a name , we will use this new pattern in the next step.

Now on to making the pinstripe material for real now....

create a new file and fill with any colour you want.....here ive used black so you get an idea of how your stripe will look......this texture is 512x512

Now right click the layer and go to blending option-pattern overlay

Play around with the opacity and scale sliders, until the pinstripe looks the way you want it.

Which gives you something like this

You can then use this on torso's for jackets legs for skirts or pants etc...

have fun with it..play around with the line lengths and placement while making your original pattern for different effects.

Make them diagonal or create small cross shapes...the choice is up to you.

Silk Pattern by __SaraH__

Open your leg mesh...or just a blank canvas if you are making a pattern for use time and again.

create a new layer and select the gradient tool.Select the black and white and set it for difference mode and 70% opacity.

Then just sweep the gradient tool from left to right....this will look like this.

Then sweep the other way from right to left.

This gives us the making of our first fold in the material.Repeat this over and over from left to right and from right to left...with some short and some long...filling in where you think is appropriate.

with a little practice you will end up with something like this.

Looks a bit dull as a greyscale image...but once we add some colour...it jumps into life.

There we have our newly created silk..nicely folded and ready to be saved to make a long skirt or cut up to make a shirt etc.

By sweeping the gradient from different directions..(not just side to side).. you can make the material have multiple folds and wrinkles.

To create the multi wrinkled effect...start at above but move the opacity on your gradient up to 100% and sweep from side to side in small motions until you get the effect you are after.

then go to filters/blur/gaussian blur and set it about 6 pixels

then go to filters/stylize/find edges to give you this

looks a little too bright so we'll go to image/adjustments/levels and move the slider along until its dark enough for what you need.

Good luck in creating your own...hope this has helped all the new texture makers out there.

Adding Pattern to a Template by __SaraH__

There are many ways to add a pattern, from using filters and patterns from photoshop or other image editor, to using brushes etc.

This tut will concentrate on using a pattern you may have found on the internet and thought, "now that would look great on a shirt".

First open up you pre-made template (if you've attempted Xaoz's basic shirt tut then that's an excellent one to add a pattern to). Here i'm using a bustier template i made a while ago.



Next open up the pattern you found and add it to your template as a new layer





Now at this stage (depending on the pattern) you could just stretch the image so it covers the entire template area.

I've decided that the image will be too big once made into the top, so i'll make it smaller then duplicate it so it tiles.



Make enough tiles of the pattern to cover half of your shirt template.Hide the underlying layers and merge the tiled pattern.

Duplicate this newly merged pattern, then flip it over and drag it so it covers the rear part of the shirt.



Again hide the underlying layers and merge the two.

Now hide the new merged pattern layer and the mesh layer and select all the area around your shirt template.



With this area selected, make your patterned layer visible and select it

If you look closely you will see the selection lines still visible against the pattern layer.

Then hit delete.

This will delete everything on the pattern layer that's outside of the shirt template shape.

You are left with a perfectly cut out shirt shape.



Hide the mesh layer and your original template and save as a .png

This is how the finished texture looks



This is a basic tutorial on just one method of adding pattern to a shirt.As i mentioned there are various ways of creating a similar effect if you have the right brushes etc.You can also add shading and highlights using the dodge and burn tools.