How to Create Marble Texture in Photoshop

Photoshop is great in creating simulated textures for use on graphic projects. Textures made in Photoshop can be used as desktop wallpaper, web page background, illustration, and many more. We will create a marble texture in this Photoshop tutorial.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Adobe Photoshop 5.0 ~ CS3
• PC Windows XP or Vista operating system
• Mouse
• Keyboard

1. Start with a new (w)1200 x (h)900 pixels file. Make the foreground color "white" and the background "black" in color. Select "Background Color" in the Contents section, and use 200dpi resolution.

2. 
   Marble texture template

   Filter > Render > Different Clouds. Repeat as many times as you want until you get one pattern that you like. The patterns are auto-generated by Photoshop so we have no control over the process. Your template for marble texture will look very different than this, as it is random created.

3. 
   Equalize the outline

   Image > Adjustments > Equalize after you get the marble outline you like.

4. 
   Brightness and contrast

   For CS versions: Image > Adjustments > Shadow/Highlight, use these values, Shadows: 100%, Highlights: 0%
   
   For 5.0 to 7.0 versions: Image > Adjust > Brightness/Contrast, use these values, Brightness: 74%, Contrast: -62%

5. 
   Apply color

   Now the fun part -- we will add color to the marble pattern. Image > Adjust > Color Balance. Use these values by adjusting the sliders on the scales in the Color Balance window:
   
   Midtones: Cyan (-20), Green (+100), Yellow (-20)
   Highlights: Red (+2), Green (+18), Yellow/Green (0)
   Shadows: Red (+92), Magenta (-41), Yellow (-28)
   
   Put a check mark in the "Preserve Luminosity" box. Click OK.

6. 
   Finished marble texture

   Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen More, then Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen Edges. We have a piece of simulated marble created in Photoshop.

[sonni57]

on 8/9/2009 Good article on creating marble texture in photoshop someday you make it sound easy.