How to Create Realistic Photoshop Grass Texture

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Create realistic Photoshop grass texture

Creating grass texture in Photoshop is super easy. Grass texture can be useful if you draw your own story illustration, cartoon, clip art, advertisement...., etc. Here are the instructions for rendering that grass texture you need.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Adobe Photoshop 5.0 ~ CS4
PC Windows XP or Vista operating system
Mouse
Keyboard

Step 1

Color for grass

Open Photoshop and use a "grass green color" for the background.
Step 2

Start with a new canvas. Use (w)800 x (h)600 pixels for the size, and 150dpi for the resolution. Select "Background Color" in the Contents section. Click OK.
Step 3

Grass texture template

Go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise. Enter the below settings:

Use the volume 52 for the "Amount", select "Gaussian Blur", and put a check mark in the "Monochromatic" box. Click OK to make an image like this.
Step 4

Gaussian blur filter

Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. Enter "0.8" pixel for the blur amount. Click OK.
Step 5

Wind filter

Filter > Stylize > Wind. For the "Method" select "Stagger", then click on "Right" for the blow direction.
Step 6

Apply second wind filter

Right-click mouse on the image, choose "Select All". Right-click again and select Free Transform > Rotate 90CW. Repeat Step 5; but click on "Left" for the wind direction this time.
Step 7

Grass texture

Repeat Step 5 to bring the image back to original direction. Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen Edges. Go to Image > Adjust > Brightness/Contrast.

Set "Brightness" to 5, and "Contrast" to 16.

For other grass colors, (e.g. brown, tan, yellow) go to Image > Adjust > Color Balance, and make color changes on the pop-up window using the color sliders.

Project finished.