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How to recolour a texture and maintain the look?

Cianos · 2011-09-01 16:32:46

Hey, I want to make patterns, lines and drawings on a canvas texture, but am not sure how to do this in such a way that the texture keeps the same texture quality. I've tried a solid colour over the texture, with reduced opacity, but the colour gets too weak before the fine details of the texture show. I've tried a solid…

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01-09-2011 5:32pm

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Cianos

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Hey,
I want to make patterns, lines and drawings on a canvas texture, but am not sure how to do this in such a way that the texture keeps the same texture quality.

I've tried a solid colour over the texture, with reduced opacity, but the colour gets too weak before the fine details of the texture show. I've tried a solid colour with overlay blend mode, but again it washes out far too much.

This image shows the look I want to achieve - the blue/green rectangle carries the same texture and is still quite strong in colour. So, I want to be able to draw whatever shapes I like with a similar look to the blue/green shape.

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#2 04-09-2011 9:37am
flanree

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are you using photoshop?

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#3 04-09-2011 8:08pm
Cianos

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flanree wrote: »

are you using photoshop?

Yep

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#4 04-09-2011 8:34pm
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Put the texture over a solid colour and use the multiply blend mode.

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