Ruvinka wrote:Bravo!
That is really lovely.
I kind of like how the edge leaves it up to the viewer to decide if the border was meant to look that way or of it is frayed from age. The embroidery looks really good. I am curious... when you captured the texture was the embroidery on the cloth already or did you add that in a layer later?
Actually, what I did was take a picture of one of my cloth-like blankets in my room, and basically started taking it apart on photoshop.
I took the yellow part of the cloth and spread it out by using the cloning tool & healing brush on photoshop, and after I did that, I was left with nothing but the yellow cloth-like backround.
Then I opened up the original file again, and captured the symbol on the original cloth, and set it as a custom brush, allowing me to simply "stamp" the symbol right onto the cloth in any size or color necesary.
As for the embroidery, well that was a lot of work. I once again opened up the original reference picture I took, and selected the border, hit copy, and pasted it 4 times on the picture with the cloth, rotating each one so that they go around the cloth. Then I did some editing to the cloth edges at the corners and saved it all into one layer, and presented as what you see here
Whew, It took over 2 hours to make and I'm so glad it payed off since I was so exausted afterwards
I am so pleased that the cloth itself came out so well, and now that we know we can make our own custom cloths in our fan-created ages, this opens up a whole new door of possibilities....