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Velvet Textures

Mini Photoshop Tutorial

A quick method for creating velvet textured clothing.

First, select the white swatch of the piece that you intend to recolor. If there isn’t a white swatch, use a B&W adjustment layer.

On the right side of your screen, right click on the layer to bring up a drop-down menu. Select the, ‘duplicate’, option.

Select the duplicate layer, and change the layer style to, ‘exclusion’. This will start the base of our velvet or suede-like texture, by inverting the shadows and highlights.

Right click on the layer to bring up the drop-down menu, and select, ‘merge visible’.

Add noise by going to filter > noise > add noise. This will give your base a bit more texture.