Finger Prints

Was playing around in photoshop and came up with a nifty way of making finger prints thought I'd share as it occured to me there may be areas in our level where forensics have dusted for prints?

First create a document size 550pixels by 500pixels, then go to Filters > Render > Fibres, in the dialog play with the settings until you have nice long strokes, I maxed out both settings.

Should look this:

The next step is to make the fibre render more profound by going to Filters > Sketch > Photocopy, we want the strokes quite contrasted so I set mine to detail 5 then Darkness to 50. Click ok.

It should now look like this:

The next step is to warp the image into the shape of a finger print, for this I used Filter > Liquify, mess around with the brush until you match the looped effect of your fingerprint.

Mine looked like this:

Now simply selection tool an oval around the fingerprint loop, invert the selection [Shift+Ctrl+I] and delete/clear.

It should look something like this:

To set this as a custom brush for future use simply select all [ctrl+A] and go to Edit > Define Brush Preset, name it something like Fingerprint1 an Wa La! your very own fingerprint brush :)