In this tutorial, we’ll learn to create a background image that looks like multiple folds of silk fabric. This is a great effect and technique for your collage artwork, as it is easy to blend or fade in with other elements of a collage piece.
1. Open a new document in Photoshop (I will be using dimensions 600×600 px).
2. With your blank canvas open, select the Gradient tool.
3. Open the Gradient Editor and set the gradient from Black to White (By default, the black to white gradient should be the square in the top left corner of the “Presets” section).
3. Make sure the Mode is set to “Difference” and the Opacity is set to “70%”.
4. Now with the Gradient Tool, click and drag from the top left of the canvas to the bottom right.
5. There should now be a gradient going from light to dark at a diagonal direction.
6. Now with the Gradient Tool, click and drag from the lower right of the canvas to the top left.
7. Simply repeat steps 4 through 6 over and over again. What you will get are many different types of folds that look like fabric.
8. Goto Image > Adjustments > Color Balance. Adjust the color sliders to give the fabric folds some color.
dear sir
its very useful to make different types of background
Thank you so much for making this tutorial. I’ve been trying to figure out how to do this for a while and I couldn’t find anything that really explained it until I came across this page!
easy and effective
It is beautiful!!
However, it is difficult.
Please Could you teach procedure ’7′ in detail?
Great, simple, powerfull idea!!!
how come i didnt think of this before? so simple, so brilliant
very nice photo tips
hello! i was wondering how to blend a real cloth picture to a photograph, making it look like its part of the photograph?
Excellent post, I can see now this makes it all look so easy. And it really is except far too many people don’t know, I know that I will be trying to implement what you said. Really worthwhile post
Thx!
simple and perfect! thanks a lot!
great tut
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your work is beutifull to
Mine dont come out straight it makes squares n circles n nothing like that
What i got was something that looks like a shit storm..worst tutorial ever
If you are trying this and it ends up all kinds of ugly crazy colors and doesn’t look like the black and white image, try changing your mode or RGB. It looked quite awful when my mode was on CYMK.
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Hello, I’m trying to do this. However, I’m wondering are you supposed to do the gradient on different layers or keep it all on the same layer when doing it multiple times?
Please let me know, thanks! Such a great looking piece.
Well I totally disagree with the disbelievers. This is the easiest and best tutorial. I am now a fold making fool. Great. What the others need to do is just mess around with it and make shorter strokes when you are going back and forth with the gradient. And make strokes in specific areas as well. As you proceed through you don’t have to go all the way across the canvas. Keep it on the same layer. Try it modify it, but don’t discredit. Again Great Tutorial!!
Excellent tutorial
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Thanks
THANK YOU! I thought I’d be spending at least an hour creating something like this.
i dint get that one properly
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