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Does anyone know of any good tutorials for Photoshop? One that deals specifically with making EVN-style textures would be especially helpful, but anything that will show me how to composite different images together (according to their alpha channels) would be extremely useful.
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(This message has been edited by Mazer Rackham (edited 04-15-2004).)
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Originally posted by Mazer Rackham: **Does anyone know of any good tutorials for Photoshop? One that deals specifically with making EVN-style textures would be especially helpful, but anything that will show me how to composite different images together (according to their alpha channels) would be extremely useful.
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I don't know of any, but I do agree that it would be useful, and probably for more things than just textures.
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Originally posted by Mazer Rackham: Does anyone know of any good tutorials for Photoshop? One that deals specifically with making EVN-style textures would be especially helpful, but anything that will show me how to composite different images together (according to their alpha channels) would be extremely useful.
There are full and easy-to-follow tutorials on image compositing (and alpha channels) in the Photoshop manual that came with your boxed copy of Photoshop.
Dave @ ATMOS
I don't have a manual. Photoshop came with my computer (I bought it used), but there wasn't a manual to go with it.
If there are no available online tutorials, can anyone recommend a good book for learning how to use Photoshop effectively (other than the manual?)
Photoshop is a very powerful program capable of making almost anything you wish, but it also has a heavy learning curve. I still haven't been able to make much in the way of textures with it. The best I can do is throw a grey backround on and then divide it up into plates using black lines and little black dots for bolts. That usually doesn't end up looking very good when I paste it on the ship though. :rolleyes:
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Search for Sparky's tutorial somewhere on this forum. It's pretty good and I noticed a marked improvement in the quality of my textures.
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why, look! there it is.
I'm going to add more to it once all my APs and stuff are over - so around the end of May I'll put more little texuring tutorials in that thread
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Captain Philips: That is much farther than I have been able to get stumbling blindly around in the program. About the only thing I can get Photoshop to do is blur stuff and save pictures as other formats.
Sparky: Thanks for the link. I appreciate the effort you put forth to help the community here. Unfortunately, that tutorial doesn't help me much because A. I don't know how to use Photoshop to do that and B. the 3D programs that I own don't texture that way, but use shaders (Mechanisto) or materials (Bryce3) instead.
hm, if you can't use photoshop to make the textures, why are you asking how to do it?
Sure you can use Photoshop to make textures for those programs. You just do it differently than you would for Lightwave. The problem is, I can't composite images with Photoshop, let alone do more complicated things. That is why I would find a tutorial of some sort helpful.
ah, so what do you want? I'm pretty good w/ photoshop, maybe I can help.
Essentially, a step-by-step how-to on compositing images, making lines and dots, et cetera.
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Awesome stuff, but more about the principles than the actual creation. Form the self proclaimed "queen of texturing" And it's true, look at these: (url="http://"http://leigh.cgcommunity.com/site_images/gallery/orc/orc_7.jpg")http://leigh.cgcommu...y/orc/orc_7.jpg(/url) (url="http://"http://leigh.cgcommunity.com/images/aragorn_19.jpg")http://leigh.cgcommu.../aragorn_19.jpg(/url)
and there's more, click on the gallery link at the top of the first lnk I gave...
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