Noise Texture Tutorial

June 21, 2008 · Print This Article

This Noise Texture Tutorial will explain how to alter your images and add more interest to it.

This texture effect helps in many ways. Improving your knowledge of Photoshop, learning new things and this type of texture is extremely useful when you have boring images that need sprucing up.

Once you know how to do this you’ll end up tweaking it and making all sorts of textures alike.

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Noise Texture Tutorial - The Steps

Recently I have been using these types of textures on my graphic designs - I find they are extremely useful when I want to add a little more interest but can’t seem to put my finger on just how I should without making the graphic too cluttered. This method takes a few minutes to execute.

Firstly create a new image -> File -> New - Chose a size, for this tutorial I decided on 400 x 250 - make sure your layer is black

Now you need to duplicate your layer -> Layer -> Duplicate Layer… once you’ve done that your layers should look like mine.

Now if you look at your two black layers next to them you’ll see an ‘eye’, click on the top layers ‘eye’, once you’ve done that your layers should look like mine.

Now that you’ve got that sorted, select the bottom layer and then go -> Filter -> Noise -> Add Noise - a little box should appear, change your settings to mine.

Go back to your layers and click on the little ‘eye’ again, your layers will look exactly like they did in the first screenshot.

Now select the TOP layer and then go -> Filter -> Noise -> Add Noise - a little box should appear, change your settings to mine.

Right now you should have two layers, each layer has some ‘noise’, both different settings.What I do now is select the eraser tool, a nice large soft brush, lets say 100 because this image is quite small.
Then I changed the opacity to 70% - once you’ve got your brush ready to use select the top layer and begin erasing parts of the layer. Before erasing & after erasing

And that’s it, you can change the the settings of ‘noise’ to be less or more, you can erase more or less of the top layer, you can do anything! I just tend to mess about with the settings and paste the texture onto a graphic and set the layer type to lighten, overlay, soft light, screen or whatever else you feel would work.

Aaannddd you’re done. I hope this tutorial was helpful and made sense - if you do have any questions regarding this Noise Texture Tutorial then feel free to leave a comment below and we’ll do our best to help you.