Tire marks

[sealpower]

Hi all.
I'm making a runway texture (and a aircraft carrier texture) and I want to add some weathering, actually tire marks. How do I make good ones?
The simulation is Lock On

Thank you.

[Serval]

I've done it with Photoshop but used tools of which I'm quite sure PSP also has them.

First make a selection


Then fill it with a black color and undo the selection


Next apply a motion blur wide enough to get a nice gradient


Next apply a Gaussian blur to get the blurry borders as you would like them


With the Smudge tool you can modify the start and end points a bit.


You could apply more layers with similar smaller skidmarks over the big one to simulater that some points have a stronger effect

Here a small skidmark that I will move over the big one:


Here two of the small skidmarks (the same one) are applied over the big skidmark. I did adjust the transparencies to get the best result and variation in the effect.


Another way would be making a gradient with which you might be able to control the gradient much better.

I hope this gives you some ideas to create the effect.

[Black_Hawk]

Thanks, you helped a lot. Much better than the tecqnique I used (make a line and then just blur it...).