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Creating Stone Cobbles

This technique produces a stone-like effect. It uses two of Picture Publisher's built-in effects. Your package might have these effects or similar ones. If it doesn't, see if you can find a plug-in to achieve it for you. Or, try and work round it with other tools and effects.

Grey background as tiles
To start, create a new image with a plain, mid-grey background. Next, run the mosaic effect on it - increase the tile size to about 20 and the grout width to about 6 before applying though. You should end up with something similar to the picture on the left. If your favoured program doesn't have a mosaic filter, you can simulate the effect by drawing a semi-regular grid in a darker grey across the picture.

After Charcoal
Next apply the charcoal effect. This should leave you with something like the picture on the left. We are now only one step away from having cobbles...

Stone cobbles.
Finally, invert the image! And there you have it, a reasonable stone cobble effect.

Blobs
An undulating cobbled surface can be achieved quite easily, using a different start picture. Try this: create a series of plain white-to-black blobs. (See the blob tutorial if you aren't sure about how to do this.) Then apply the mosaic effect as before, but decrease the grout brightness.

Undulating stone floor.
Apply the charcoal effect, and invert the picture again. This should give you something like the picture on the left. See how it makes our stone surface look less even - just like your average cobbled road!

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	To start, create a new image with a plain, mid-grey background. Next, run the mosaic effect on it - increase the tile size to about 20 and the grout width to about 6 before applying though. You should end up with something similar to the picture on the left. If your favoured program doesn't have a mosaic filter, you can simulate the effect by drawing a semi-regular grid in a darker grey across the picture.
	Next apply the charcoal effect. This should leave you with something like the picture on the left. We are now only one step away from having cobbles...
	Finally, invert the image! And there you have it, a reasonable stone cobble effect.

	An undulating cobbled surface can be achieved quite easily, using a different start picture. Try this: create a series of plain white-to-black blobs. (See the blob tutorial if you aren't sure about how to do this.) Then apply the mosaic effect as before, but decrease the grout brightness.
	Apply the charcoal effect, and invert the picture again. This should give you something like the picture on the left. See how it makes our stone surface look less even - just like your average cobbled road!