where can I source free background Fills?

[Peter Normington]

very hard to find high res images for free
but maybe you could download the 30 day trial of eye candy textures, has some good wall building features

Peter

[Tim Hobbs]

Hi Shaun

Haven’t seen that vehicle but is this something along the lines of what you mean?

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[Shaun Harris]

That looks very much like it Tim

[Tim Hobbs]

I made this one with Photoshop, happy to do that for you on a larger scale.

[Shaun Harris]

That looks great Tim. did you use photoshop fills to make that then blend it together?

The effect I am going for is the grass along the bottom then a stone wall half way up the van then the sky.

I’m then going to add a couple of signs screwed to the wall and a post and panel sign behind the wall showing over the top

Sounds alot I know. I am just getting into photoshop so it’s a bit of a learning curve.

[Tim Hobbs]

What version of Photoshop do you have?
I made this with a cloud filter for the background and an ordinary photoshop brush for the grass.
I would definitely agree with Peter and get yourself the Eye Candy plugins.
I use them exhaustively in my typography design work.
I would use them for instance to build the stone wall, depending on how you wanted it to look.
If you tell me what version of PS you have I could mail you a file with some of these effects included as layers, then you could add the signs as you described.

[Shaun Harris]

Tim.

I have cs3.

I have looked for eye candy plugins but can’t find them (found eye candy caddies though).
Do you know where to get trial software?

Shaun.

[Martin Grimmer]

Shaun,

eye candy link here…

http://www.alienskin.com/downloads/getmail1.asp

Tim – really like the grass effect. Which brush did you use in photoshop or did you create one yourself?

Martin

[Shaun Harris]

Tim

This is the effect I’m after.
As you can see I’ve just tiled the file you made to get the basic idea together. With the grass I tried to separate it from the sky, using fluid mask, again just to put the idea on paper, I am aware it needs work but this is the closest I’ve come to an idea that I’m happy with.

I’m planning on the bonnet being a different theme as it would look odd to have the wall over it.

Part of the challenge has been to do something that will be ok with the plastic moldings left grey to keep the cost down.

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[Tim Hobbs]

Hi Martin

I used the basic grass brush from Photoshop.
It’s in the default brush pallete no 134.
I like to go into the colour dynamics and set the Hue Jitter to around 11.
That way you get a bit of variation in the colour.
Set your foreground and background colours to a couple of shades of green and paint across the bottom of your page, remember to vary the size as you go, which you can do easily with your square bracket keys (in case you didn’t know that already)
Then I change the foreground and background colours to something a little more yellowy and go across again.
Hope that make sense.

Shaun

You are not far away then, I’m over in Bath (Signpost)
Watch this space and I’ll try to get something made for you shortly.
Other than that you are welcome to give me a call if you want to chat about this.

Tim

[Robert Lambie]

FOUND THIS ONE ON THE UKSB TOOLBAR, HAVENT FOLLOWED THE THREAD SORRY IF REPEATING SOMEONE.

http://www.texturewarehouse.com/gallery/

THE LINK COMES UNDER THE ARTWORK TAB ON THE TOOLBAR

[Martin Grimmer]

Thanks Tim – will take a look and give it a try

Martin