From the course: Digital Matte Painting: 4 Texturing

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Adding the dark side's base texture

Adding the dark side's base texture - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Digital Matte Painting: 4 Texturing

Adding the dark side's base texture

With our stone wall texture prepared, we're now ready to distort it into place. Before we actually start that, let's take a look at the scale of the stones in the wall, and make sure it's appropriate for the castle. For this kind of structure, you probably don't want the stones to be too large, like six feet high. You also don't want them to be too small, like a fist sized brick. Looking at this now, my bricks look a little bit too big, so I'm going to reduce the size of this texture to 85% of the original file. Take a minute to get this sized right, since you'll be using the texture for the entire castle. Next, make a copy of the stonewall, since we're going to be using the same texture for all the walls, and turn the copy off. Make sure the texture is on top of the castle. You still need to see what you’re doing, so set the opacity of the stone texture to 50%. Now, make sure your perspective guides are at the top of your layer stack and turn them on. Let's do the left side, or the…

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