Parchment & Stain Tutorial [Photoshop]

[Badger]

added the psd file for anyone who cared to have it

[Immolate]

My first piece of work on this forum was to go through this tutorial. You might say I learned a lot. I actually made a wanted poster of my wife and, by the end of the tutorial, I was being a bit cowboy myself. After her delight over the wanted poster, went back in and deleted all of the portrait and text stuff, and spent some time perfecting the parchment.

I present it here to you as an opportunity to point out problems in my techniques and any oversights that might be related to my colorblindness. If it is okay, all are welcome to use it for whatever purpose they wish.

I apologize as I have not learned yet how to imbed a picture. I'll go learn that now.

[Immolate]

Again, sorry for my earlier ignorance. Here is the image plain



and peanut butter...



in honor of Fister's idea.

[Ascension]

No critiques from me, I think it looks good and I even snagged the psd

[Leonal]

This looks great!
I just tried this tutorial in the Gimp, but being a noob with the program I'm struggling finding an equivalent of these two Photoshop tools:
Clip to layer
Filter / Brush Strokes / Spatter

Any of the Gimp gurus here who know how to create something similar to the spatter filter? (I tried to google, but found nothing worthwhile regarding spatter)
Thanks

[jfrazierjr]

This looks great!
I just tried this tutorial in the Gimp, but being a noob with the program I'm struggling finding an equivalent of these two Photoshop tools:
Clip to layer
Filter / Brush Strokes / Spatter

Any of the Gimp gurus here who know how to create something similar to the spatter filter? (I tried to google, but found nothing worthwhile regarding spatter)
Thanks

I don't know if GIMP has the same concept, but you can easily imitate the clip to layer "one time" using selection and working only on the selection. My preferred approach though, is to use a layer mask(see link in sig)to simulate something like this.

[Leonal]

Thanks! I tried by using selections, but will definitely look at your masks tutorial.