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Photoshop: Texturing and Shading Techniques

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Overview

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Learn how to work with shaders, brushes, colors, and highlights in Photoshop to perform shading and texturing of various materials and surfaces—hard, translucent, 3D, and more.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • How to use the exercise files
1. Prepare the Artboard
  • Artboard setup
  • Importing reference images
  • Linework cleanup and staging
2. Understand Textures and Materials
  • Introduction to material shaders
  • Base highlights and shadows
  • Color and surface texture
3. Set Up Colors and Textures
  • Set up seamless textures
  • Create color and texture flats
  • Color and value balance
  • Adjust linework transparency
4. Base Shading and Highlights
  • Ambient occlusion
  • Shadowing techniques
  • Highlighting techniques
  • Main light source and refined shadows
5. Final Touches
  • Specularity and roughness
  • Subsurface scattering
  • Basic background painting
  • Finishing touches
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Rayce Bird

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