Plan on redoing the camo paint on my M101 trailer, and seeing as my Jeep is silver, I thought an urban camouflage would look good. Who knows, if it turns out well enough, I may even repaint the Jeep! ;^)
Digital Camo in Photoshop
- Create a new file in Photoshop. Make it a fair size.
- Set background and foreground color swatches to black and white
- Filter > Render > Clouds. Press CTRL-F until you get a nice balance of dark and light
- Filter > Other > High pass – set radius to 250
- Filter > Brush Strokes > Spatter – set spray radius of 16 and a smoothness of 7 (or whatever looks good to you!)
- Image > Adjustments > Threshold. Adjust the slider to whatever looks good.
- Filter > Pixelate > Mosaic Effect. Set the square size to whatever works best for you.
- Image > Adjusments > Threshold one more time.
- Delete the white (or black, if you prefer)
- I like to rotate the layer approx 45 degrees.
- Duplicate layer. Using Image > Adjustments > Selective Color, to whatever color you like.
- Duplicate the original layer, and do the same thing. Rotate the layers, as well as flip vertical & horizontal to achieve the effect you like. When rotating, use the 90 degree or 180 degree options only for the best effect. Re-arrange the layer orders as well.
Here’s one example of what I came up with using this technique:
Urban camo created in Photoshop CS4
Play with the settings, and layers.
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