Square gradient texture or whatever you want to call it tutorial

[Rochester Rhino]

A couple of people have been asking me how I did the background on my sig and my latest backgrounds, so I decided to make a tutuorial.

For this example i'm doing it for a sig. The first step is to use the gradient tool like so

 

[Rochester Rhino]

put a solid color or another gradient (as long as it's not the same gradient as the other laye)r on top of the first layer.

 

[Rochester Rhino]

Select the pencil tool, adjust to the brush diameter to 1 if your doing a sig or 2 if your doing a wallpaper. Make a design like the below picture using a color that's not in the second layer. It's easier if you do like 9 squares then copy and paste a couple of times, then merge the layers and copy and paste again. (note this picture is zoomed in)

 

[Rochester Rhino]

Once you've filled the whole area you should get something like the picture below. Then select all of the squares and delete them so that in the squares the gradient from the layer below is showing through.

 

[Rochester Rhino]

the final result is this

 

[dark_pablo]

u can do that just selecting the area and applying it a pattern, of course, made by u

 

[Rochester Rhino]

Originally posted by dark_pablo
u can do that just selecting the area and applying it a pattern, of course, made by u

Yeah that would be a lot easier

 

[Dumisani]

Originally posted by Rochester Rhino
Yeah that would be a lot easier

so are you gonna do it?

 

[wat3rf0x]

And we're gonna need a tutorial for that? It's just a basic pattern. Such tutorials are found all over the internet...