How to make Corrupted Sanctuary bricks:
1. Start Photoshop
2. Make new image (128x64 for a 64x32 brick)
3. Choose a Light Grey (160 R, G and B) and Black as the 2 colours
3. Go to Filter-->Render-->Clouds
4. Select the 'Channels' tab in theLayers view
5. Add a channel
6. Select the new channel
7. Go to Filter-->Render-->Difference Clouds
8. Go to Filter-->Noise-->Add Noise.
9. Select something low like 6% and press OK
10. Click the Layers tab and select the image
11. Go to Filters-->Render-->Lighting Effects
12. Under Texture Channel choose Alpha 1
13. Fiddle around with the other stuff until you see somehting you like and press OK
14. Save as a bitmap image
15. Close Photoshop
16. Open Paint Shop Pro
17. Open the bitmap image
18. Press 'L'
19. Right Click on Background in the Layer Palette and choose duplicate
20. Select the Background layer and Turn the entire layer into black (use the glasses next to layers to toggle seeing them or not)
21. Go to Layers-->New Raster Layer
22. Select the New Layer (Mine is called Layer 2)
23. Press 'F' to select the Fill tool
24. Under Styles at the Color Chooser, select the Gradient button.
25. Click on the Gradient to go to its settings.
26. Under Style choose 'Sunburst Gradient'
27. Set the Horizontal and Vertical values to 0
28. Press the 'Edit...' Button
29. Under Types choose '#1 Foreground-Background'
30. Set the Opacity value to '0' (ONLY if the location value next to it is 0%, which it should be)
31. Press OK
32. Press OK
33. Select the foreground Colour to be 160 Red, Green, and Blue
34. Select the Background colour to be Black
35. Fill the Gradient into Layer 2
36. In the Layer Palette, set the Layer Blend Mode to Hard Light (Normal on default) for Layer 2
37. Turn off the Visibility (the glasses in the Layer Palette) for background and make sure the visibility for 'Copy of Background' and 'Layer 2' is turned on.
38. Go to Layers-->Merge-->Merge Visible
39. Turn on the Visibility for 'Background' again
40. Select the Layer called Merged
41. Go to Image-->Canvas Size
42. Tick the 'Center Image Horizontally and Vertically' boxes
43. Set the New Width to 180
44. Set the New height to 120
45. Press OK
46. Press 'M' to select the Magic Wand tool
47. Select the black area outside of the Brick
48. Go to Selections-->Modify-->Feather
49. Choose 16 and press OK
50. Press 'Delete' 4 times
51. Go to Selections-->Select None
52. Go to Image-->Canvas Size
53. Make sure the 2 boxes are ticked
54. Set New Width to 128
55. Set New Height to 64
56. Press OK
57. Go to Layers-->Merge-->Merge All (Flatten)
58. Go to Colors-->Adjust-->Red/Green/Blue...
59. Set Red and Green to 0 and Blue to 25
60. Press OK
61. Select Image-->Resize
62. Select 'Percentage of Original' and set both values to 50%
63. Select 'Smart Size' as the resize type
64. Press OK
YOU'RE DONE! You got a typical Corrupted Sanctuary brick. They'll all come out differently, btu here's a screenie of the one I made with the tutorial:
Made by request, you guys should really learn these l33t tricks by yourselves like I did and stop copying mine. And ppl think drawing like me was lazy and easy, well I bet they've just realized a new low of ppl who dont even wanna figure out effects by themselves, EVIL!
QUICK UPDATE:
Just updated the examp-le pic to tile a few bricks instead of showing just one.
Also, if you dont like the load of dots or 'noisey' texture the rbick has just ignore steps 8 and 9...