[WIP] Photoshop Practice

[nick3d]

Well if you have any decent tutorials for photoshop i will really admire you :P

well iv done 1 thing from a tutorial, iv learnt a bit about the blender tools a lil but

so heres my wood texture
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/WoodTexture.jpg

[Hunter]

:XD:

If think you need some better Photoshop tutorials nick.
Wind + Grain +Hue and Saturation?

(No offence btw)

[nick3d]

it looks ok though considering 1st time i have actually been on photoshop since iv had it

[Hunter]

... Not really.

[nick3d]

Well, i think its good, for my standards!!!

E:

Burnt paper effect, looks kinda shit but ahhwell
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/burntpaper.jpg

[Disaster]

http://www.tutorio.com/tutorial/photoshop-wood-texture
Wood Tutorial

http://www.google.com/search?q=Photoshop%20texturing%20Tutorials&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=iw
Google is your friend

[Hunter]

Okay.

www.tutorialized.com (http://www.tutorialized.com) is okay.

Edit:
Stop nick. Just watch some tutorials...

[nick3d]

Okay.

www.tutorialized.com (http://www.tutorialized.com) is okay.

that is exactly where i am with my tutorials

[nick3d]

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/WOODTEXTURE2.jpg

Is this better?

[Advancebo]

whats that warp in it? and to bright

[nick3d]

whats that warp in it? and to bright

Its supposed to be a knot but didnt quite work lol

E:
And heres a camo which i have just done
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/pieceofcamo.jpg

[Hunter]

http://www.bluegerbil.net/images/polar-bear-face-palm_thumbnail.jpg







I just did this in a few minutes nick, it sucks. But you must be able to do better...
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/martynball/metal_thing.jpg

Edit: Camo doesn't look to bad.

[kenney001]

no

[nick3d]

I dont know how to do that, because i dont know the tools as well as you do,

And thanks :)

[kenney001]

http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/ridedesign.jpg

looks too filtered

[nick3d]

What does?

[Hunter]

All it is, is
Clouds
Noise
Motion Blur
Dodge Tool
Burn Tool
That's it. I don't even know what it is Lol.

[Chainsy]

Hunter get off your high horse. All I see that you did was a get a dark grey, edit/fill then grab a dodge grunge set it to opacity of 10% and lightly click till it somewhat became visible then grabbed a slightly darker color then the base metal and either using again 10% either burned or as I said used a slighter darker color with another grunge brush to create the dark scratches then grabbed a blurred brush on dodge tool and held down shift and went back and forth over it to create a little shine then grabbed a an almost black blurred brush for paint tool and clicked each little hole in and grabbed a smaller blurred one and held down shift and dragged it to create the straight line. Which, even though is a mouthful, it can be done in 5 seconds.

[Hunter]

I'm not on my high horse. It died :( I only got a pony now.

I know nick in real life, he knows I aint being nasty. And I know my texture sucks.

Edit:
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/pieceofcamo.jpg
You sure you made that one nick? Because I just noticed its seamless. If you did then its good.

[Chainsy]

Ok, then I am sorry, but you came off very rude.

[nick3d]

I'm not on my high horse. It died :( I only got a pony now.

I know nick in real life, he knows I aint being nasty. And I know my texture sucks.

Edit:
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/pieceofcamo.jpg
You sure you made that one nick? Because I just noticed its seamless. If you did then its good.

yes i did, why would i put up something i havent done, the tutorial is on tutorialized under "textures and patterns"

Here is my newest edition to the practice pen lol
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/grass.jpg

[Snowy]

Your stuff isn't that bad for a beginner, nick.

Check out my site: http://blindmansgfx.net/tutorials.html

[nick3d]

Your stuff isn't that bad for a beginner, nick.

Check out my site: http://blindmansgfx.net/tutorials.html

I will another time because im going to go bed because its like 03:37 AM

[Cortexian]

Pretty good, I think the first thing I ever made in Photoshop was similar (but way worse looking) to this:
http://lancersedge.exofire.net/pics/Warp-Flower.png

I then looked for some better tutorials and came up with what you see above.

[nick3d]

Pretty good, I think the first thing I ever made in Photoshop was similar (but way worse looking) to this:
http://lancersedge.exofire.net/pics/Warp-Flower.png

I then looked for some better tutorials and came up with what you see above.

That looks pretty good

[nick3d]

My newest texture is a leopard skin texture, tutorial is fount on tutorialized
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/leopardskin.jpg

[Chainsy]

Its just a tad too blurred....

[nick3d]

yeah i thought that but, i was just following a tutorial not fussed on perfections at the moment

[nick3d]

I'm not on my high horse. It died :( I only got a pony now.

I know nick in real life, he knows I aint being nasty. And I know my texture sucks.

Edit:
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/pieceofcamo.jpg
You sure you made that one nick? Because I just noticed its seamless. If you did then its good.

Whats Seamless mean??
and heres my newest. gunshots in metal
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/metalgunshot.jpg

[Saggy]

www.good-tutorials.com (http://www.good-tutorials.com)

www.pixel2life.com (http://www.pixel2life.com)

Go there for some more tutorials.

[nick3d]

www.good-tutorials.com (http://www.good-tutorials.com)

www.pixel2life.com (http://www.pixel2life.com)

Go there for some more tutorials.

Thanks Saggy

E:
1st metal done by myself, without tutorials, i think its pretty good, do you?
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/metal.jpg

[Sever]

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f87/sever323/Metal-1.jpg
That's my first texture (some version of Forerunner metal) ever created, and I did it WITHOUT PHOTOSHOP and with ONLY TWO COLORS. I find it to be extremely simple and abstracted, but still find it more enjoyable than your use of the same tools over and over. Go take a Computer Graphics class. You, and everyone who is critiquing your work, will thank yourself for doing it.

[Phopojijo]

Seamless means that if you surrounded the texture with copies of itself {"tile it"}, you wouldn't be able to notice it has been tiled.

The first level of "seamlessness" would be simply to use the offset filter in Photoshop to move every pixel in the image exactly 1 half the width of the image {such that the original edge is then the center.ex: for a 512x512 image... you would add move pixel 1,1 to 257,257; 2,2 to 258,258... ... 512,512 to 256,256}

After that, playing around with the clone, heal, etc. tools to make the edges {which are now a cross in the center of the image} disappear.

Then, you offset it again to move it *back* to it's original layout and fix any seams you may have caused fixing the original seams.

Then you go back and forth until in both original and half-offset layouts it looks perfectly continuous.

The second level of seamlessness is to remove any landmarks that the eye could fixate on. If there's something that the eye notices is odd (a suddonly bright patch... a large shadow... etc.) you then need to remove it/burn/dodge/otherwise make it less obvious.

After that you then need to make sure you didn't introduce any more seams by doing the half-offset thing.

That should be *just about right* to make a good seamless texture.

[nick3d]

Ok thanks for explaining to me

[nick3d]

God! This has been inactive for a while. So im bumping it up with a couple of new Photoshop Stuff.

Well iv done 2 new Signatures, I would like peoples opinions on which one is better.

Number 1
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/SimpleProfessionalLogocopy.jpg
Number 2
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/Nick3d.jpg
And this is a new wood tutorial which iv come across
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/wood-1.jpg

[Bastinka]

Too many different shades, somethings wrong about it..

[Kalub]

Hmm... Hold yourself, I have this sweet site that I archived on my flashdrive somewhere.


Keep in mind these are still probably live somewhere, I'm just too lazy to find them again. I archived them years ago, so if anything doesn't work/is broken, sorry about your luck.


Also, I do believe Meine Snafürhuer showed me these so we both deserve the love.


http://rapidshare.com/files/176571599/TextureMaking.rar

[Corndogman]

I like the first one. Its not anything special really, but its simple and eye-catchy.

[Gamerkd16]

Stumbleupon brings up some cool Photoshop things from time to time:

Tutorials:
http://www.paintbits.com/2008/06/27/photoshop-tutorials-you-should-see/
http://designreviver.com/tutorials/50-excellent-body-enhancement-photoshop-tutorials/
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/wallpapers-in-photoshop/
http://www.creativecloseup.com/a-nice-list-of-great-photoshop-lists
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/learn-101-photoshop-tricks-in-5-minutes-video/
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/50-great-photoshop-text-effect-tutorials-part-ii/
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/photoshop-tutorials-wallpaper/
http://psdtuts.com/articles/web/30-ultra-high-end-photoshop-tutorials/
http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Photoshop-blog/2008/11/20/30-awesome-photoshop-text-effects-tutorials/
http://webdesignledger.com/tutorials/28-powerful-photoshop-lighting-effects
http://designerside.com/article/15-amazing-photoshop-text-effects


Brushes and Shapes:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/11/the-ultimate-collection-of-photoshop-custom-shapes/
http://psdtuts.com/articles/inspiration/20-photoshop-painted-inspiration-and-brush-resources/
http://tutorialwebdesign.com/free-download/photoshop-brushes
http://www.noupe.com/photoshop/1000-free-high-resolution-photoshop-brush-sets.html

There ya go...went through all my bookmarks... :D

[nick3d]

Too many different shades, somethings wrong about it..

Are you on about my wood texture?



And thanks for the tutorials ill get right on them, but theres only one more problem left how do you put a texture onto a shape in 'Maya' I still haven't figured it out.

[Limited]

The problem with your textures, is just by looking at it, I the different techniques you used, radial blur, wind, etc, and that is a big problem. If your going for realistic (which you might, I dunno you havent said :P) you should be able to look at it and not know how it was made.

Btw, you can "sample" real pictures you know, metal is a good one, google and flickr pictures of real metal, then use the pictures, combine them and edit them etc. Use like 5 - 7 different metal samples to create one overall texture. It could be classed as cheating, however the end result is pretty good.

[nick3d]

Iv just followed a bunch of tutorials and left off from there really
none of it is my proper personal stuff because tbh im not very good at photoshop so i wouldnt be able create something eye catching without a tutorial

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/nick3d2.jpg
new sig

[Limited]

Holy crap look what I just found, my cloud tutorial :P

http://fc92.deviantart.com/fs4/i/2005/135/b/5/Cloud_Tutorial_V_2_by_limited_edition.jpg
:D I spelt background wrong lol
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Edit 2: Okay [thumb] tags fixed it.

Btw good worn metal tutorial (http://www.arildwiro.com/tutorials/materials/wornmetal/wornmetal.html)