Adding Textured Backgrounds

Here is a quick Photoshop tutorial on how to create textured backgrounds that you can use in your flipcharts.

Note: To view the original tutorial by Collis that provides more detail, click here.

Step 1: Create a 1024 x 768 document. Fill it with a light cream color (any light color would suffice).

Step 2: Change the foreground and background colors to darker shades of the original used in Step 1. Add a New Layer. Then, under the Filter menu select Render > Clouds.

Step 3: Select Filter > Add Noise. Use a amount of about 16%, Monochromatic and Uniform.

Step 4: Select the Filter > Artistic > Palette Knife.

Step 5: Change the layer blending

QuickTip: Using Color in Inspire

One the best ways to improve your flipcharts is by using color to cue students. Here is an effective way of using color as a means of enhancing a Venn diagram. The idea is to use color as a way to introduce Venn diagrams to students and letting them conjecture the goal of using these types of diagrams.

Note: Special thanks to Dr. David Allsopp for suggesting this idea.

Step 1: Create two circles using your “Pen Modifiers” tool. First, draw one circle then simply duplicate it and move it into position.

Step 2: Next, select your Fill tool and fill each half with color. You will notice it will only color the left and right but not the middle portion.

Step 3: For the middle section, fill it with any color. Next, in your Properties browser, under