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steve123

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I came across a background that has a beautiful satin look to it. It's not like the satin filter, though, in Photoshop, that puts a reflecting glean on the surface. If you move an eye dropper tool over the surface you can see that the pixels vary between 0x2A2A2A and 0x2F2F2F. So maybe we need a function that scans a solid color and then cyclically varies the pixel color up and down 5 to create the effect. Is there anything like that in Photoshop?

Steve
 
Here you go. I tried to include it with my original post but got an error about no links allowed until I had posted 5 times. Looks like it went through this time.

bg_satin.png
 
It looks to me like filter>add noise. I experimented and came up with settings of 2 for amount, uniform for distribution and monochromatic. You'll have to experiment with the color grey you want to use for the base color. I'd say go with the darkest. Add a very slight gaussian blur, about a .2 or .3 (depending on resolution of image).

Duplicate the layer that you've add the noise to. Use the transform command (ctl/cmd + T) or edit menu, flip horizontal or vertical, change the blending mode of the top layer to soft light, and check it against your original.



Happy Photoshopping
 
I think you nailed it, ibclare! Looking at the original at 3200X, below, shows a total randomness, like noise.

Many thanks to both of you for looking at it.

satin at 3200X.png

By the way, it occurred to me that another way you might be able to product this effect for a web page might be to manually create something like a square 8 pixels on a side, and then hand set the pixels to the various colors observed here in about the same distribution, and then repeat the square in x and y. You could then create squares based red, green, yellow, and have a whole pallet of these things.

Thanks again for looking at it.
 
LOL Steve, some people's minds are just naturally mathematical. Like yours! I wouldn't ever think of doing that!

Noise is random; so am I. :mrgreen:
 
Thanks mate BTW I used noise setting of 1 instead of 2 and after duplicating and setting the blend mode to soft light it came out very dark so I did a 60% opacity then.
 
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