Sand Textures
Software : Photoshop CS2
Level : Intermediate

Concept: The lesson is designed using Adobe Photoshop. We have used selections, different combination of image editing tools and filters for most of the effects. Photoshop comes up with lots of the options and scope for experiment is much more than you can imagine. We wish to encourage you to use different options and tools to get better output. The lessons and techniques described need to be followed as a guideline to achieve the effect.

1. Create new file.

2. we have selected the following colors for the sand texture.

3. Filter > Render > Clouds

4. Filter > Noise > Add Noise (Amount: 7 Uniform, Monochromatic)

5. Create the duplicate of background layer and select the top layer.

6. Change the blending mode of the top layer to Vivid Light.