This texture was generated in Filter Forge, a Photoshop plugin that allows you to create your own filters.
This shows the technique for making my favourite multi-purpose noise. Produces lots of areas of high and low contrast, and doesn't tend to look like repetitive like other types of fast algorithmic noise.
Noise, snippet, grain, constrast, texture.
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