From the course: Digital Matte Painting: 4 Texturing
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Creating a stone texture - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Digital Matte Painting: 4 Texturing
Creating a stone texture
The first thing you'll want to do on your castle is to add a base texture. One of the main reasons this castle looks like a plaster model, rather than a real structure is that it's too perfect. It's doesn't have any of the underlying noise that anything photographic will have. So we'll create a base stone texture that we'll apply all over the castle. Here's a stone texture that will work well as the base, but it's too pristine, it doesn't have any of the flaws that a stone wall on an old castle would have. So let's use transfer modes to give it more texture and character. All of the files are used in this section will be available to Lynda.com premium members in the exercise files. You might want to go out and photograph some stone walls yourself, to use on this. Or, there are a lot of examples available on the internet. Try to find one that is at a reasonable resolution, at least a couple of thousand pixels wide, so that your wall will be nice and crisp. This one is 3,600 pixels…
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Why did we wait so long to use photographic textures?1m 55s
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Prepping the form study for texturing5m 32s
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Transfer modes9m 4s
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Color basics4m 45s
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Creating a stone texture3m 26s
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Adding the dark side's base texture3m 57s
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Adding the light side's base texture3m 40s
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Rounded textures and the Warp tool6m 33s
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Websites for matte painting reference5m 13s
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