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Easy Textures - Stucco 2

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

Step 1:
Choose Image - Special Filters - Add Noise.
Choose Uniform - 50 % Noise.

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

Step 3:
Choose Image - Normal Filters - Blur More.
Do this 3 times.

Step 4:
Image - Special Effects - Hot Wax Coating.

Step 5:
Letīs give it some color. First we make it darker by choosing Colors - Adjust - Brightness/Contrast. Choose Brightness = -40, Contrast = -40.
To colorize it, choose Colors - Colorize, settings Hue = 150, Saturation = 50.

Step 6:
Choose Image - Resample - 150x150.
Then Image - Normal Filters - Sharpen More. Thatīs it. I saved the image as JPG with a compression of 75.

If you are going to use it as background, click here to see the result.
I didnīt do anything to make it seamless.

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