Join David Mattingly for an in-depth discussion in this video Relighting the new details, part of Digital Matte Painting: 4 Texturing.
We have these nice castle details added in,…so let's go ahead and relight and color-correct them.…Let's name the layers so we can stay organized.…First is Wall, then Tower, then Tower Detail.…Entrance Detail. Entrance,…Onion Tower, and that's the Filigree Tower.…Select them all and put them in a group, and name the group Details.…
Turn off all the layers except the Filigree Tower.…And zoom in and center it so we can work on it.…Make sure that black and white are loaded in the color picker.…Select a big soft round brush.…Then select the Filigree Tower layer and…load the selection so we isolate the tower.…And set the Brush transfer mode to Overlay.…Set the opacity…to 30%.…And let's go ahead and darken the dark side using that Overlay brush.…
Then, press x to swap foreground and the background colors.…And lighten the light side. Now let's work on that Onion Tower.…Select the layer and load the selection.…Hide the selection, and now let's paint in the dark side.…This Onion Tower is relatively easy to re-light because it was flat lit, so we…
Author
David Mattingly
Released
11/7/2013- Preparing your form study for texturing
- Adding dark and light side textures
- Making rounded textures with the Warp tool
- Creating photographic crenellations
- Using Levels and Curves for color correction
- Adding photographic elements
- Relighting details
- Adding glows, smoke, and flames
Skill Level Beginner
Duration
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Introduction
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Introduction55s
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1. Using Photographic Textures to Finish Your Castle
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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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2. Adding Unique, Photographic Crenellations to Your Castles
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The Vanishing Point tool4m 54s
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3. Color Correction with Levels and Curves
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Levels and Curves anatomy5m 26s
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Camera Raw3m 33s
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Using Levels and Curves4m 55s
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Toning the base castle5m 35s
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Toning the crenellations6m 48s
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4. Distorting and Relighting Photographic Textures
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Adding photographic elements4m 19s
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Relighting the dome5m 59s
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Color correcting the dome1m 52s
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Relighting the new details3m 50s
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Color correcting the details5m 10s
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5. Finishing Your Castle
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Extreme color correction3m 36s
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Adding a photographic sky6m 27s
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Adding background mountains5m 32s
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Integrating the details7m 30s
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The final paint layer6m 28s
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Lights and glows7m 15s
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Smoke and flames9m 31s
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Conclusion
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Goodbye33s
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