[GBud]

Hey, does anyone out there have, or know of, a tutorial or tips on how to paint in some texture into your work? I'm happy with the color/lighting I have on this image I'm working on, but it looks too smooth, too airbrushed. I'd now like to go in and start putting some bump mapping-type texturing on it; I'd prefer to do it by hand rather than rely on actual bump mapping, so...any advice would be appreciated.

thanks a heap/geoff

[Matt Elder]

Don't know of any tuts but here is a method:

1) Start with a flat colour
2) Paintbrush - 50% opacity, large hard brush, placing roughly where you want stuff
3) dodge and burn (only slightly though) to get lighter and darker tones
4) Paintbrush - 20% opacity, hard brush. Go over previous areas to take away the hard paint brush strokes from step 2.
5) (optional) If the image is still has too much of a textured feel to it, use the paintbrush or airbrush (soft edge for both), opacity 20%, to go over these hard edges and create a better blend.

Keep repeating as necessary and use the eye dropper tool to select the colours near the area you wish to paint.

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Matt
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[This message has been edited by Matt Elder (edited October 02, 2000).]

[This message has been edited by Matt Elder (edited October 02, 2000).]

[Jason Manley]

If you have Painter 5 or 6 then you can just use the chalk tool and any paper textures or combination of paper textures that you need.

I try to avoid Photoshop for painting as I too find that it makes the everything too airbrushy. Painters brushes are far superior to those in photoshop and the color wheel and water color tools are indispensible. It has only been over the past couple months that I have really been exploring the use of the papers and chalk in Painter. Now that I have been using them I will not go back to just airbrush tools and watercolor tools. That chalk tool works magic. Sometimes you will have to use it in conjunction with airbrush or watercolor so that the texture conforms to the surface of the object you are painting and not the surface of your painting.

Jason

[Binke]

I'm interested in what brushes you use.
Do you just pick whatever brush is needed for your work, or do you have some sort of default set of brushes that you use, ie the airbrush, chalk & watercolors as you mentioned?
I get confused with all the brushes in Painter, like I usually just end up using one brush..

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