I really do apologise for making a whole thread about this. But I have been looking for so long for a texture/brush that resembles what water looks like after it's dried while dripping down a surface. You can see it used on this dumpster- inparticularly on the bottom left image. I've checked brusheezy and cgtextures, and the closest I can get is dripping paint. Anyone have a good one they can share?

It would be cool if there was a brush topic at least where people could share brushes and techniques they use - just so I didn't have to spam the forum up :P.

Thanks

You could just draw the streaks, using shift to keep strokes still (if you need), and adding a 'fadeout' value in the brush settings. Then it's just a case of finding the right layer blend, usually 'multiply'.
Honestly, spending ages trying to find the exact brush you need makes the fact that it's then fewer brush strokes redundant.

Originally Posted by mixeh

It would be cool if there was a brush topic at least where people could share brushes and techniques they use - just so I didn't have to spam the forum up :P.

Here's a few threads found with the search function...

Photoshop Brushes (post them here!)

Sharing is caring: brushes

Creating a 'Scratches' Brush in PS

There are whole section of cgtextures.com devoted to both metal and concrete with water residue. Grab a couple of them and overlay them as you see fit.

Alternatively, I find just laying down a fairly solid blob of colour and then using the smudge brush to make streaks usually looks pretty good with a minimal amount of fiddling about.

water stains are one of my favorite things to paint

Just turn the "watercolour" option on, since it resembles the style of dryed water. You should look at cgtexutes though ;p

Originally Posted by mixeh

I really do apologise for making a whole thread about this. But I have been looking for so long for a texture/brush that resembles what water looks like after it's dried while dripping down a surface. You can see it used on this dumpster- inparticularly on the bottom left image. I've checked brusheezy and cgtextures, and the closest I can get is dripping paint. Anyone have a good one they can share?

It would be cool if there was a brush topic at least where people could share brushes and techniques they use - just so I didn't have to spam the forum up :P.

Thanks

hey dude, that dumpster is from my friend. you could just ask him and find out how he textured his model.

I recognize it from miles away, he used this one.

A texture that has served even me many times, it's like an old friend.

Dude, dripping paint and dripping water are essentially the same, they're both fluids and behave exactly same.

Hell, you can even use some rust texture, like this one

http://cgtextures.com/login.php?&tex...5b7e446f156b6f

Just desaturate, up the contrast, invert, multiply over your map (or screen if it's specmap), erase unnecessary stuff, add some personal touches here and there

I've done this with the smudge tool before. Get a rust texture and change it's color to dark blue then scale it as a line, it doesn't have to be perfect, then smudge downwards multiple times with high threshold using a small 1~5 pixel brush, and then set the layer to overlay. Not sure if this is what you are looking for but it should come out looking like the stains on the top of that garbage dump.