Here I will show you how I create a painted metal surface worn by time with paint chipping off, revealing older paintwork underneath.
Photoshop
Channels Explained
This tutorial is intended to give a quick overview of how Photoshop sees and interprets Channels, as well an in-depth explanation of what Channels actually a...
Creating Worn Metal
Ok for this tutorial we're going to have a quick look at how to make a worn metal texture in Photoshop. This is going to be fairly quick & easy so it will no...
Posing a character in a natural scene
Ever want to render a Poser figure in a real photo? Or create a digital painting using a photo reference with a Poser figure? Because that's what you will fi...
Touching Up A 3d Image In Post
No matter how much I may work a 3d piece to death, it's never finished until I spend an hour on it in Post. Fixing in Post is just a fancy way of saying you ...
Create a realistic Eye
I will show how, with some patience and a tablet, you can produce your own eye textures, applicable to your 3D characters. It's a realistic texture, but it c...
Useful Shortcuts in Photoshop
Welcome to my second tutorial, this time I will try to give you useful information on keyboard shortcuts, dialogs and tricks in Adobe Photoshop(tm).
Creating Dirty Custom brushes
I am posting here some settings, so that you understand the logic of the creation of custom brushes in Photoshop 7.0. For the painting of the textures, I use...
Creating Custom Brushes part 3
If you use Photoshop (version 7 and CS), wither it is to paint textures for your 3D-models or for classical digital art, a really good tool is to build your ...
Creating Custom Brushes part 2
Welcome to the second tutorial about creating custom brushes in Photoshop! Rickard (who did the awesome first tutorial) and I decided to create a little tuto...
Texturing 101
Okay this is a really simplistic making of, it's really more of a texturing tutorial cause I get quite a few questions on texturing so, I've just take a simp...
How to create a Matte Painting
This tutorial is actually a making of where I explain how I proceeded to achieve this matte painting. I use a Wacom Intuos' A4 board, if you don't have any g...
Making the General Surface
Hello everyone I kept receiving mails and requests regarding the process on how do I paint metal, for real-time models. So, I decided to make this tutorial, ...
How to fakif the 3D Look
This tutorial will show you how to make a 2D image made of simple shapes can be made to look like a render from a 3D package.
How to create a Normal map
I've devised a way to capture normal and displacement maps from real 3D surfaces. It's easy! Just follow the steps below.