Thank you sooooooo much. This is an awesome tutorial. So thank you for sharing your friendly tips.

ooo.. thanks much.. ill have to try this

Very cool technique. ^^

This tutorial is totally awesome. Thank you for taking the time to make it!

Very interesting; I definitely appreciate your posting this. Thanks!

It works, but not when you have a lot of colors that you don't want smudged together, such as something with really intricate markings.

In that case, use another layer with just the markings on it, maybe? It works in theory...

The upper layer just smudges over the first. If you wanted to overlay the texture to the bottom flat one, the smudged colors appear off. :P

It's just too much work for me.

Photoshop should have a way to keep layers separate. Try turning the layersvisibility off on those you don't wish to smudge.

*nods* Like what Arkloyd said, you can probably do them on a different layer, so that they don't get smudged together. It might take a little planning out, depending on what you're doing. Layers are your friend! =D

That is a really freaking awesome tutorial!!! *dances* I have Thursday off, so I'll have to try it out!

Thank you!!! :D I'll be emailing you either tonight or tomorrow... I got the package from the post office (finally, stupid job kept me from going) and everything arrived safely and beautifully!

OMG so much gorgeous art!!! :D <3

Yay! I'm glad it got there safe and sound :)

I'm still very much keeping my fingers crossed on this...I just haven't had much luck at selling at Art Shows :(

sav'd

Awesome, thank you for the tip. I think I'll take it and steal it for my own. ;P

Wow, that's nifty! I have this picture that I need to do for a tryout and I really ought to try this for it!

Cool! Drop me a note to let me know how it turned out! :)

This was interesting, but wow, we sure work in different ways! XD I do all my coloring (highlights and shadows too) on the same layer, I think that´s much easier. :) But everybody´re different and work in different ways, I´m not saying you should do like me or anything. Whatever works the best for you. :)

*nods* I used to do all my highlighting and shading on the same layer of that particular colour too...but I found that if I ever mucked up the shading or highlighting, it'd be hard to fix. If they're on a layer above the actual colouring, then I can just erase the mistakes and do it over...I don't know how it's like on newer versions of Photoshop, but in mine, the History only goes so far back, and once it reaches that point, then it just totally resets EVERYTHING and I'd have to do the WHOLE thing all over again. So I've just found it to be easier this way; making it a separate layer and all ;)

Wow! Thanks for the tutorial, Hollyann! :D I sure need to learn all this when I get my new compy with Photoshop other art prorams. ;3

*Falls out* OMG for the longest time i have been wondering how people do that stuff! >.< THANK YOU SOO MUCH HOLLYANN!

Awesome, thanks again, I love your tutorials, keep ot up, hope to see you at a con.

I'll be at Anthrocon this year :) As well as C-ACE (the very last one!) and AnthroFest.

Amazing! I'd love to see digital furry artists try that. :3

I find it also helps if you use the 'adjust color' thingy to change the color of the noise to the color of the lighting you're using.

I think this is SOO cool, I'm gonna have to see if I can try it on one of my best drawings... and see if Photoshop Elements 3.0 will let me do it... Thanks soo much

...I gotta try that o . o.

I tried it a bit different. I use GIMP, I took a "galaxy" brush which was basically like a patchy cloudy brush. I took a darker shade of the fur color I wanted, a lighter one too, and then I manually scattered it over the area I wanted to be those colors. Not too different from your noise generation approach.

The part that WAS different though is that I used the galaxy brush for the smudge, it did an uneven smudging because some parts of the brush are more transparent than others. I think the effect was pretty decent :3

Cool. I'm gonna have to try this out when I get home.

I can't wait to try this. Thanks for the tip.

That is cool.

awesome :D