Create speckled effect in CC 17 on windows

[Kirk_Thompson_PA]

hello all

I am creating diplomas for a middle school Harry Potter summer program and found a site that gives me a great starting point. The site used an ivory paper from their local store and I have some of that paper. However, creating the speckled pattern gives better versatility to the certificate and the overall effect. Background is ivory and the spexkles look look like burnt orange.

How can I create the speckled effect in CC 17? I truedtge guassian blur a bit and likely didn't go far enough.

any help, ideas, links etc are greatly apprecuated.

if someone can tell me how to add an image to this thread I'll put the certificate up with a link.

Thanks in advance

Kirk

[c.pfaffenbichler]

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Can you post an example?

[Kirk_Thompson_PA]

Here is a link to the certificate:

http://simplydarrling.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hogwarts_kendra_parchment_blog.jpg

Screen capture of the textured area from the above link is uploaded here:

[Stephen_A_Marsh · Accepted solution]

Not sure if I am following 100%… However if you are saying that you wish to recreate a parchment background in Photoshop to print over the top of your ivory paper, then is this sort of what you are looking for?

I set the foreground/background colours to a light and darker “buff” hue, then used the Render Clouds filter (press CMD/CTRL F multiple times to reapply the random cloud generation until you like the result). I also added a solid brown fill layer above the rendered clouds, then changed opacity to 3% and blend mode to Dissolve. I then added a new blank layer and merged this with the dissolve blend layer so that I could apply a minor blur to the speckles (I left it very obvious in the image above so that you could see the effect). There are many approaches to creating such synthetic backgrounds.

You could also try using Difference Clouds and fade, add contrast and blend the result back into the other steps.

P.S. Of course, it will depend how this prints on the final ivory stock, what looks good onscreen may not look the same on the final prints so some trial and error may be required (you could easily test many different background patches on a single test print sheet).

[Kirk_Thompson_PA]

YES!!! That is it!!!

THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!!!

[Trevor.Dennis]

Blur is going to produce the opposite of speckle.        Look for some star and galaxy brush sets with this sort of effect.  Note I have size and opacity set high for the sake of clarity.

Then in the Brush Dynamics set

Size jitter to full with minimum size about 25%

Angle jitter full.

Scatter to full with Both Axis checked.

Count to about 2 or maybe 3

Fill a new layer with this brush, and bring the layer opacity way down to whatever effect you want.

This is 30%

And this 40%

If I am missing the point, paste a sample to this thread as CP suggested, and folk will be queuing up to give you ideas.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

One could also use an artificial shape as for a Brush Preset with appropriate randomization.