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nick3d
October 18th, 2008, 08:02 PM
Well if you have any decent tutorials for photoshop i will really admire you :P

well iv done 1 thing from a tutorial, iv learnt a bit about the blender tools a lil but

so heres my wood texture
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/WoodTexture.jpg

Hunter
October 18th, 2008, 08:08 PM
:XD:

If think you need some better Photoshop tutorials nick.
Wind + Grain +Hue and Saturation?

(No offence btw)

nick3d
October 18th, 2008, 08:12 PM
it looks ok though considering 1st time i have actually been on photoshop since iv had it

Hunter
October 18th, 2008, 08:15 PM
... Not really.

nick3d
October 18th, 2008, 08:19 PM
Well, i think its good, for my standards!!!

E:

Burnt paper effect, looks kinda shit but ahhwell
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/burntpaper.jpg

Disaster
October 18th, 2008, 08:27 PM
http://www.tutorio.com/tutorial/photoshop-wood-texture
Wood Tutorial

http://www.google.com/search?q=Photoshop%20texturing%20Tutorials&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=iw
Google is your friend

Hunter
October 18th, 2008, 08:28 PM
Okay.

www.tutorialized.com (http://www.tutorialized.com) is okay.

Edit:
Stop nick. Just watch some tutorials...

nick3d
October 18th, 2008, 08:30 PM
Okay.

www.tutorialized.com (http://www.tutorialized.com) is okay.

that is exactly where i am with my tutorials

nick3d
October 18th, 2008, 08:41 PM
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/WOODTEXTURE2.jpg

Is this better?

Advancebo
October 18th, 2008, 08:53 PM
whats that warp in it? and to bright

nick3d
October 18th, 2008, 08:56 PM
whats that warp in it? and to bright

Its supposed to be a knot but didnt quite work lol

E:
And heres a camo which i have just done
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/pieceofcamo.jpg

Hunter
October 18th, 2008, 09:02 PM
http://www.bluegerbil.net/images/polar-bear-face-palm_thumbnail.jpg







I just did this in a few minutes nick, it sucks. But you must be able to do better...
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/martynball/metal_thing.jpg

Edit: Camo doesn't look to bad.

kenney001
October 18th, 2008, 09:04 PM
no

nick3d
October 18th, 2008, 09:05 PM
I dont know how to do that, because i dont know the tools as well as you do,

And thanks :)

kenney001
October 18th, 2008, 09:07 PM
http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/ridedesign.jpg

looks too filtered

nick3d
October 18th, 2008, 09:09 PM
What does?

Hunter
October 18th, 2008, 09:10 PM
All it is, is
Clouds
Noise
Motion Blur
Dodge Tool
Burn Tool
That's it. I don't even know what it is Lol.

Chainsy
October 18th, 2008, 09:21 PM
Hunter get off your high horse. All I see that you did was a get a dark grey, edit/fill then grab a dodge grunge set it to opacity of 10% and lightly click till it somewhat became visible then grabbed a slightly darker color then the base metal and either using again 10% either burned or as I said used a slighter darker color with another grunge brush to create the dark scratches then grabbed a blurred brush on dodge tool and held down shift and went back and forth over it to create a little shine then grabbed a an almost black blurred brush for paint tool and clicked each little hole in and grabbed a smaller blurred one and held down shift and dragged it to create the straight line. Which, even though is a mouthful, it can be done in 5 seconds.

Hunter
October 18th, 2008, 09:26 PM
I'm not on my high horse. It died :( I only got a pony now.

I know nick in real life, he knows I aint being nasty. And I know my texture sucks.

Edit:
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/pieceofcamo.jpg
You sure you made that one nick? Because I just noticed its seamless. If you did then its good.

Chainsy
October 18th, 2008, 09:27 PM
Ok, then I am sorry, but you came off very rude.

nick3d
October 18th, 2008, 09:35 PM
I'm not on my high horse. It died :( I only got a pony now.

I know nick in real life, he knows I aint being nasty. And I know my texture sucks.

Edit:
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/pieceofcamo.jpg
You sure you made that one nick? Because I just noticed its seamless. If you did then its good.

yes i did, why would i put up something i havent done, the tutorial is on tutorialized under "textures and patterns"

Here is my newest edition to the practice pen lol
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/grass.jpg

Snowy
October 18th, 2008, 09:37 PM
Your stuff isn't that bad for a beginner, nick.

Check out my site: http://blindmansgfx.net/tutorials.html

nick3d
October 18th, 2008, 09:39 PM
Your stuff isn't that bad for a beginner, nick.

Check out my site: http://blindmansgfx.net/tutorials.html

I will another time because im going to go bed because its like 03:37 AM

Cortexian
October 19th, 2008, 12:46 AM
Pretty good, I think the first thing I ever made in Photoshop was similar (but way worse looking) to this:
http://lancersedge.exofire.net/pics/Warp-Flower.png

I then looked for some better tutorials and came up with what you see above.

nick3d
October 19th, 2008, 05:59 AM
Pretty good, I think the first thing I ever made in Photoshop was similar (but way worse looking) to this:
http://lancersedge.exofire.net/pics/Warp-Flower.png

I then looked for some better tutorials and came up with what you see above.

That looks pretty good

nick3d
October 19th, 2008, 09:00 AM
My newest texture is a leopard skin texture, tutorial is fount on tutorialized
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/leopardskin.jpg

Chainsy
October 19th, 2008, 09:11 AM
Its just a tad too blurred....

nick3d
October 19th, 2008, 09:15 AM
yeah i thought that but, i was just following a tutorial not fussed on perfections at the moment

nick3d
October 19th, 2008, 09:30 AM
I'm not on my high horse. It died :( I only got a pony now.

I know nick in real life, he knows I aint being nasty. And I know my texture sucks.

Edit:
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/pieceofcamo.jpg
You sure you made that one nick? Because I just noticed its seamless. If you did then its good.

Whats Seamless mean??
and heres my newest. gunshots in metal
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/metalgunshot.jpg

Saggy
October 19th, 2008, 09:52 AM
www.good-tutorials.com (http://www.good-tutorials.com)

www.pixel2life.com (http://www.pixel2life.com)

Go there for some more tutorials.

nick3d
October 19th, 2008, 10:06 AM
www.good-tutorials.com (http://www.good-tutorials.com)

www.pixel2life.com (http://www.pixel2life.com)

Go there for some more tutorials.

Thanks Saggy

E:
1st metal done by myself, without tutorials, i think its pretty good, do you?
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/metal.jpg

Sever
October 19th, 2008, 11:24 AM
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f87/sever323/Metal-1.jpg
That's my first texture (some version of Forerunner metal) ever created, and I did it WITHOUT PHOTOSHOP and with ONLY TWO COLORS. I find it to be extremely simple and abstracted, but still find it more enjoyable than your use of the same tools over and over. Go take a Computer Graphics class. You, and everyone who is critiquing your work, will thank yourself for doing it.

Phopojijo
October 19th, 2008, 12:10 PM
Seamless means that if you surrounded the texture with copies of itself {"tile it"}, you wouldn't be able to notice it has been tiled.

The first level of "seamlessness" would be simply to use the offset filter in Photoshop to move every pixel in the image exactly 1 half the width of the image {such that the original edge is then the center.ex: for a 512x512 image... you would add move pixel 1,1 to 257,257; 2,2 to 258,258... ... 512,512 to 256,256}

After that, playing around with the clone, heal, etc. tools to make the edges {which are now a cross in the center of the image} disappear.

Then, you offset it again to move it *back* to it's original layout and fix any seams you may have caused fixing the original seams.

Then you go back and forth until in both original and half-offset layouts it looks perfectly continuous.

The second level of seamlessness is to remove any landmarks that the eye could fixate on. If there's something that the eye notices is odd (a suddonly bright patch... a large shadow... etc.) you then need to remove it/burn/dodge/otherwise make it less obvious.

After that you then need to make sure you didn't introduce any more seams by doing the half-offset thing.

That should be *just about right* to make a good seamless texture.

nick3d
October 19th, 2008, 12:12 PM
Ok thanks for explaining to me

nick3d
December 24th, 2008, 07:13 PM
God! This has been inactive for a while. So im bumping it up with a couple of new Photoshop Stuff.

Well iv done 2 new Signatures, I would like peoples opinions on which one is better.

Number 1
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/SimpleProfessionalLogocopy.jpg
Number 2
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/Nick3d.jpg
And this is a new wood tutorial which iv come across
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/wood-1.jpg

Bastinka
December 24th, 2008, 09:28 PM
Too many different shades, somethings wrong about it..

Kalub
December 24th, 2008, 11:40 PM
Hmm... Hold yourself, I have this sweet site that I archived on my flashdrive somewhere.


Keep in mind these are still probably live somewhere, I'm just too lazy to find them again. I archived them years ago, so if anything doesn't work/is broken, sorry about your luck.


Also, I do believe Meine Snafürhuer showed me these so we both deserve the love.


http://rapidshare.com/files/176571599/TextureMaking.rar

Corndogman
December 24th, 2008, 11:41 PM
I like the first one. Its not anything special really, but its simple and eye-catchy.

Gamerkd16
December 25th, 2008, 01:10 AM
Stumbleupon brings up some cool Photoshop things from time to time:

Tutorials:
http://www.paintbits.com/2008/06/27/photoshop-tutorials-you-should-see/
http://designreviver.com/tutorials/50-excellent-body-enhancement-photoshop-tutorials/
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/wallpapers-in-photoshop/
http://www.creativecloseup.com/a-nice-list-of-great-photoshop-lists
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/learn-101-photoshop-tricks-in-5-minutes-video/
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/50-great-photoshop-text-effect-tutorials-part-ii/
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/photoshop-tutorials-wallpaper/
http://psdtuts.com/articles/web/30-ultra-high-end-photoshop-tutorials/
http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Photoshop-blog/2008/11/20/30-awesome-photoshop-text-effects-tutorials/
http://webdesignledger.com/tutorials/28-powerful-photoshop-lighting-effects
http://designerside.com/article/15-amazing-photoshop-text-effects


Brushes and Shapes:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/11/the-ultimate-collection-of-photoshop-custom-shapes/
http://psdtuts.com/articles/inspiration/20-photoshop-painted-inspiration-and-brush-resources/
http://tutorialwebdesign.com/free-download/photoshop-brushes
http://www.noupe.com/photoshop/1000-free-high-resolution-photoshop-brush-sets.html

There ya go...went through all my bookmarks... :D

nick3d
December 25th, 2008, 10:11 AM
Too many different shades, somethings wrong about it..

Are you on about my wood texture?



And thanks for the tutorials ill get right on them, but theres only one more problem left how do you put a texture onto a shape in 'Maya' I still haven't figured it out.

Limited
December 29th, 2008, 12:28 PM
The problem with your textures, is just by looking at it, I the different techniques you used, radial blur, wind, etc, and that is a big problem. If your going for realistic (which you might, I dunno you havent said :P) you should be able to look at it and not know how it was made.

Btw, you can "sample" real pictures you know, metal is a good one, google and flickr pictures of real metal, then use the pictures, combine them and edit them etc. Use like 5 - 7 different metal samples to create one overall texture. It could be classed as cheating, however the end result is pretty good.

nick3d
December 29th, 2008, 06:30 PM
Iv just followed a bunch of tutorials and left off from there really
none of it is my proper personal stuff because tbh im not very good at photoshop so i wouldnt be able create something eye catching without a tutorial

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/fernn001/nick3d2.jpg
new sig

Limited
December 30th, 2008, 03:45 PM
Holy crap look what I just found, my cloud tutorial :P

http://fc92.deviantart.com/fs4/i/2005/135/b/5/Cloud_Tutorial_V_2_by_limited_edition.jpg
:D I spelt background wrong lol
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Edit 2: Okay [thumb] tags fixed it.

Btw good worn metal tutorial (http://www.arildwiro.com/tutorials/materials/wornmetal/wornmetal.html)