Learn how to make a flowing cloth texture and then distort text or an image to look like it is rippling with the cloth.

 

 

1

a. Start with a 6x2 inch canvas, rgb color, 72 ppi.

b. Fill the background with a color of your choosing, I chose this dark red because it's easy to manipulate. The code for it is AC0909.

 

2

a. Click on the Channels Tab in the Layers Palette then click on the new channel button in the lower right corner

b. Then go to Filter>Render>Clouds

c. Finally go to FIlter>Pixelate>Crystalize...

use these settings:

Cell Size: 88 pixels

 

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3

a. Go to Filter>Stylize>Find Edges

b. Next go to Image>Adjustments>Levels... or hit Ctrl + L use these settings:

 

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4

a. Go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur...
use these settings:

Radius: 15 pixels

b. Now go to Levels again and use these settings:

 

5

a. Go back to the layers pallet and click on your background layer.

b. Go to Filter>Render>Lighting Effects... and use these settings

 

 

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6

a. After you do the Lighting Effects the texture will be rough, to fix this go to Filter>Blur>Blur More.

b. Hit Ctrl + F to repeat the filter until it looks more like this.

-Thats the final product of the cloth effect. On the 2nd Page I will show how to make it look like something is written on the cloth