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Tutorial - The "Easy-er" Way To Texturing Objects!
The EASY-ER Way To Texturing!
Level: Easy
A quick and informative tutorial by pacotacoplayer
What will you need:- Photoshop (I'm using Adobe Photoshop Elements 6)
- Object creation experience!
*This tutorial also comes in handy for many other things than pillows - especially clothes texturing*
Description: Okay, so you like to create object meshes, you're meshes are great, but the texture totally just ruins them
It's hard for you to create good and realistic textures, and it's making your stuff just plain bad, or you can create decent textures, but you want to make great ones. Well, if this is the case, you've come to the right tutorial
Today I'll teach you the easier "shortcut" to texturing
realistically
For this tutorial we will be using the followig EXAMPLE:
Texturing a pillow
STEP ONE
Simple, just make a design for your pillow, don't worry about shading, or anything. Just create a design; this is what I've come up with:
I know it looks plain and unrealistic, but we're getting to the best part
STEP TWO
Go to Google images, and type in the texture you want. In this case, we want to type in "pillow"
We want something useful, what you see below is perfect
Now copy and paste this picture onto your photoshop texture.
Then use the Magic Wand tool to delete the background . If you have a more complex background, just use the Lasso tool , or the Eraser, whichever is easier for you.
STEP THREE
This is where the magic happens....
Go to Layer Style > Multiply
You will notice we get a very nice texture. Scale this texture so it fits right. Now we're almost done....see how easy that was?!
STEP FOUR
Now Google "Texture Silk" and copy and paste a good silk texture onto your texture. Scale it down so it's inside of the pillow, like so:
Now click "Multiply" again on this layer, and then go to Eraser. Set Opacity to 80% and clear any visible edges that make the texture look choppy.
Now look at your outcome! WOW
This texture looks good to go! And it was incredibly easy to do! No more solid ugly textures
IMPORTANT TIPS- It is ABSOLUTELY MANDATORY that BEFORE you select "Multiply" , make sure your google image is in BLACK AND WHITE! Press CTRL+U if it isn't, and set Saturation to -100!, this will make your image black and white.
[*]It's always better to type the keyword "texture" before the name of the texture you want in google, you will get better results. For example , don't just type "silk", type in "texture silk" or "texture wood" etc[/list]
*Try mixing and matching different images to create different effects, here's an example of about 5 different textures "Multiply-ed" to create something new and unique:
That's all!
Any questions just ask here
Or click thanks and leave a comment if this worked/helped you!
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