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Specularity and roughness

Specularity and roughness - Photoshop Tutorial

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Specularity and roughness

- [Instructor] It is now time for the final touches. In this video, we will take our last look at material shaders and apply our knowledge of roughness and specular detailing to complete our final step in creating realistic materials. So let's jump over into our Shaders.psd, and I know it's been a while since we talked about the shaders, but we just want to browse through our layer stack and remember that the last item in every one of these little groupings is our specular detail. Okay, so we've got the leather, we've got some of the metal components, and we've got some of the rust. I can see some of the specular detail, and what we want to do is make sure that our exploration of roughness and specularity show up in our final design. So, if we take a look at what needs to be done in our scene, we need to add a little bit of specularity to the wood. Okay, let's assume that there is some kind of a varnish on here, so it will be able to reflect a little bit more light. Obviously, we'll…

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