In this course, Von Glitschka shows how to collect and enhance real-world textures and integrate them into your digital designs. Great texture is all around; Von will teach you how to hunt for it, in nature and in places as unlikely as a parking lot. Once you've captured your textures, he'll show you how to convert them into formats suitable for a digital workflow, and put them to use in assorted Photoshop and Illustrator designs.

Topics include:

• Photographing real-world surface textures
• Importing texture photographs with Adobe Bridge
• Organizing a library of textures
• Building a PSD texture resource file
• Creating wood-grain and painterly textures
• Using a Photoshop texture brush
• Using textures in Illustrator