Looking for canvas texture

[KimM]

I'm working on a portrait that I'd like to simulate being printed onto canvas. The only way I can figure out how to do it is to have a canvas overlay pic as a texture and blend it. However, I can't find such an overlay of the size I need. The portrait is 6,000 pixels wide and I can only find files up to 1200, but mostly only 600 px.

Is there some resource that has decent overlays such as this?

Or is there a canvas texture built into Affinity photo that I can't find?

Thanks.

[John Rostron]

Try googling for "seamless canvas texture". The, no matter what the size, you can tile as many as you want to create as large a canvas as you need.

John

[Lisbon]

Hi KimM!

You could replicate your texture.

Cheers.

[John Rostron]

4 minutes ago, Lisbon said:

You could replicate your texture.

Yes, but you will need a seamless texture to avoid noticeable seams!

I notice that you have a texture that seems to be based on Perlin noise, and that you have flipped it horizontally or vertically to minimise seams. I think you will find that unless a canvas texture us accurately aligned, the seams will stil be obvious. Hence my recommendation to seek a seamless texture.

John

[Lisbon]

You are correct John. Well observed.

That was done intentionally to minimize the problem you mentioned.

Cheers.

[KimM]

Thanks for the replies, everyone, especially John Roston. I've found there are a lot more choices searching with "seamless" than without.

[GarryP]

I often find that blending a texture over an image can make it look a bit ‘off’ and ‘forced’ (I don’t know the right word to use but it just don’t look ‘nice’ to me).
You could try using a Displacement Map to get something different, see attached images with two different displacements.
Maybe worth a bit of experimentation.

[firstdefence]

@GarryP Depends on the texture and the viewers tastes and the context it is applied, take your example, I like the texture, but it should not; in my opinion, have been applied to the eyes or mouth, I also think it’s that we know it’s fake when it’s done too much, it’s amazing how we can often tell fake from real in the case of adding a paper texture or a canvas texture.

[GarryP]

Oh, absolutely. Taste and context are always relevant.
My only reason for posting the examples was to show that there were other ways of getting a texture, not that the textures I used were relevant to the OP’s needs or that the ones I used were ideal in the situation I used them.
And, as I’m sure you know, but it’s worth pointing out to anyone else reading this, it’s easy enough to use a Mask on the Displacement Map so it doesn’t affect what you don’t want it to, see attached image.