: Figuring out how a background was created Given a PSD, is there a way to figure out how a certain background was created? The PSD is here: http://www.piotrkwiatkowski.co.uk/freebies/ui-kit.zip I’m

@Sims5801359

You can never know exactly how a rasterized layer was created. But you can always make some details better visible.
You could for example use Levels.





You will notice that the dark gray base color is actually a dark gray-blue. The structures in the noise and the little dots of different colors indicate that the Gaussian Distribution might have been used without the Monochromatic option.

But all of this is speculative and none of this is really important if you know how to reproduce an almost identical result.

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@Gail6891361

It's not possible to know what was done on the way. Just like you can not know where a ball has been by inspecting its surface. You can however use many ways to try to deduce this but therees no general process.

Tough in this case its probably just using Filter → Noise → Add Noise... should do the same thing.

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