Adding Stains to Old Paper Textures

[Josiah VE]

Hey everyone! I though I'd share this technique I came up with to give a paper texture some more weathering with stains.

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The parchment texture is one I made by crumpling and soaking in tea (CoyoteMax's technique), and editing it a bit in photoshop. It works great and I'm hoping to make some more of them. I'll upload it right here for free use:

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Here are some links that I hope prove useful:


How to make a grungy Brush in Photoshop
Grunge Brushes

Distressed Paper Texture


I hope somebody finds this useful!

[Abu Lafia]

Hey Josiah, that's a nice mini-tut. The texture you made looks very good and has a nice big size! . For practical use, i often need to lower the opacity of these crumpled papers, since the "crumples" come out pretty strong usually. What are your experiences with them? Maybe they just need a little more ironing

[Josiah VE]

Hey Josiah, that's a nice mini-tut. The texture you made looks very good and has a nice big size! . For practical use, i often need to lower the opacity of these crumpled papers, since the "crumples" come out pretty strong usually. What are your experiences with them? Maybe they just need a little more ironing

Thanks Abu!
I actually haven't used crumpled paper textures a lot, and now testing with this one I think you're right so I would probably blend it with another flatter texture. If I make another old paper texture with tea I'll make it less crumpled.
The original texture was much brighter so in photoshop I darkened it a bit and put it under some of my other maps to test it and it looked quite nice.

[Abu Lafia]

Yeah, I usually blend more than one paper texture together into the final parchment background i work with. Testing various layermodes and play with their opacity until i'm happy with the result. I've read about these various tea/coffee/baking techniques before. Guess i have to try it myself someday, since there's always plenty of the materials around!

[ThomasR]

Thanks for this one Josiah, I'll make good use of it as I've been postponing my own parchment texture for too long.

[Josiah VE]

Thanks for this one Josiah, I'll make good use of it as I've been postponing my own parchment texture for too long.

You're very welcome! I'm glad to hear it!