From the course: Digital Matte Painting: 4 Texturing

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Rounded textures and the Warp tool

Rounded textures and the Warp tool - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Digital Matte Painting: 4 Texturing

Rounded textures and the Warp tool

The rounded forms of the castle needs to be textured in a slightly different way. Since they don't vanish to either vanishing points. They need to have a rounded texture that wraps around them. Turn off the visibility of the perspective guides. Then turn on the flat texture we saved from before. Move the texture to the sides, so we can see the castle. Let's do this front tower first. Using the rectangular marquee tool make a selection that is slightly larger on either side than the tower. Your feather should be at zero while doing this. Move that selection on top of the stone texture. And Cmd or Ctr+J to copy that selection onto a new layer. And drag the texture on top of the tower. Turn the opacity down to 50% so you can see what you're doing. Zoom in a bit. Then press Cmd or Ctrl+T to invoke the Transform tool. Right click in the transform box, and choose warp. The warp tool is a real gift to any matte artist in that you can pull on any of these 16 control points and warp the…

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