Make Rough Walls in Photoshop

[Sigurd]

I think a really cheap way to do this sort of thing quickly is to copy a section onto a new upper layer. Then distort it, (ripple, wave, whatever). When the upper layer is distorted erase anything you don't want wavy to reveal the original room.


I don't know that the method is good enough for a regular work flow but it works for spots... I think mechanical distortion is going to let you down if you have to work with too many layers at once.

If you can work with just the wall outline. You can blur them, maybe mod them a bit, and then remove the fuzz to re establish lines.

There was a good tutorial around here that spoke of this sort of bump adding in response to changing scales. - I have a terrible memory for names. The author diserves more recognition because its a good tutorial.

Sigurd

[jfrazierjr]

Displace can be used to do some of this.. I used it to take a rough shape and add some slight distortion. Of course, the more closely packed your gradiations are you are using the power the distort, the more likely if you turn up the pixels that you will get "broken" lines instead of random changes to it. As others have said, using the threshold method is also a good way also and uses some of the same techniques as distort.