Easy Textures - Painted

Start with a new image, Size 300x300.
Background Color: White, 16 Million Colors.

Step 1:
Choose Image - Special Filters - Add Noise.
Choose Random - 100 % Noise.

Step 2:
Choose Colors - Greyscale.
Then Colors - Increase Color Depth - 16 Million colors.

Step 3:
Choose Image - Deformations - Motion Blur.
Set Direction = 90 Degrees, Intensity = 5 Pixels.
Do this procedure again, but choose Direction = 180, Intensity = 40 Pixels.

Step 4:
Choose Image - Edge Filters - Edge Enhance More.

Step 5:
Choose Image - Special Filters - Emboss.

Step 6:
Now letīs give it some color.
Choose Colors - Colorize. I used Hue = 70, Saturation = 40.

Step 7:
The final step is to resample the image and then to sharpen it.
Choose Image - Resample - 150x150.
Choose Image - Normal Filters - Sharpen More.

If you are going to use it as background, click here to see the result.
Make it seamless using the technique showed in the Seamless Tiles tutorial.