For the past few weeks, we have been doing a little 3D modeling with textures. I didn’t really have time to add textures to my models, because I didn’t get to those assignments. However, I did design a logo for an assignment where we had to make a soda can. Since I am not good at drawing by hand, I looked up how to make textures using photoshop. I think that I am proficient enough in Photoshop to make a texture. I found an article on Creative Bloq called 10 tips for better Photoshop textures. As it states in the title, the article had ten tips. I’m not going to go through all of them, but will mention the ones that I found most interesting. The first that I thought was really interesting is that there is a High Pass filter. I have never even heard of that filter, but it apparently is used to create a base for bump maps. I thought that was really cool. I already know about using opacity and layer masks in general, but didn’t know that they could come in handy when making textures. Apparently, adjustment layers can be used to change colors and tones without actually applying the adjustment to the layer permanently. I learned that you can remove lighting by using masked adjustment layers. I haven’t really experimented with blends, so I didn’t know that there was an advanced blending feature. One of the tips the article said was to customize your brushes. I don’t really mess with the brushes besides size, so I didn’t know how much they can change the effect of the design. They also recommend using the Clone Stamp tool, but I have never figured out how to use it. I found another article with other ways to make textures called Five Ways to Create Textures Completely in Photoshop. The article had some really cool techniques and tools that you can use with written tutorials so you could see how to do replicate it. Some of the tools had really cool end results, like the liquify tool. I know that you can make textures using the brush tool, but I didn’t know about some of the settings you could use. I knew that there were different brushes, but I didn’t know that you could change the texture of the brush itself. I usually stick to the same brush, but seeing what else the brush can make has me thinking that I really need to start experimenting more and expanding my digital art skills. I’ve used patterns before but didn’t know you could make them. The liquify tool looks really cool. I’m not sure if I’ve used the wave filter before, but I've used something similar to make my ghost text. Photoshop has a lot of features that you can use to make textures. I really need to use some of the features instead of doing the same basic thing over and over. Texturing:
Works Cited Dani Jones, danidraws.com/blog/2007/12/17/five-ways-to-create-textures-completely-in-photoshop/. Staff, Creative Bloq. “10 Tips for Better Photoshop Textures.” Creative Bloq, Creative Bloq ART AND DESIGN INSPIRATION, 28 Mar. 2013, www.creativebloq.com/10-tips-better-photoshop-textures-3133109.
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So we have finally started 3D modeling again, but this time we aren’t using 3Ds Max. We are using Adobe Fuse and Photoshop. Adobe Fuse is more for character modeling than modeling objects and animating. I have never used Fuse before so I wanted to take time to learn how to use it, since my computer is giving me some trouble with the program. Learning about this program may help me solve my issues and make it so that I can determine if the issue is on my part or the computer.
I found an article on how to use Adobe Fuse on Tutsplus that gives a step by step process in how to use it to create a character. I learned that once you have customize your character you can move it into Photoshop and animate it. When you first make your character you have many options in the assemble section. Their you can find heads, torsus, legs, and arms to pick from. You can go into the customize sections and more indepthly customize the body parts. In the clothing section you will find hair, hats, and accessories. I learned that even those can be customized. The characters don’t really have facial expressions, but you can edit the face with the mood controls, which give it some expression. I learned that you can edit the skin tone, make the eyes into a feline shape, and even make veins visible. If I had more time and my computer wasn’t closing the program every 2 minutes, I would have played around with this more. You can look at my 3D character, Ariel, on my selected works page. Things you can do with Fuse:
“How to Use Adobe Fuse.” Design & Illustration Envato Tuts , design.tutsplus.com/articles/how-to-use-adobe-fuse--cms-26108. For my homework in Digital Media II, I was suppose to take a picture and put words behind it. We learned how to do it in class using Adobe Photoshop, but I didn’t have photoshop at home. So for like ten minutes I searched for an app that could do that same thing. And then a friend told me about Photoshop Mix. This caught my attention more than other apps, because it had Photoshop in the title, but in the description it said that it would work for something like this. None of the other apps talked about it doing things like this.
Photoshop Mix was a very important app to find and figure out how to use, since I will be using it for the entire month for my homework. It is hard to get used to because it is a mini version of Photoshop, but it doesn’t have all of the features. At first, I struggled to figure out how to use it to fit my homework. To learn how to use it, I started messing around and doing a few tutorials. This week was the third time I had used it and I still needed the tutorial because I forgot how to use the auto select. I went to the Adobe Photoshop Mix FAQ to see if some of the most asked questions were mine and found out something very interesting. Photoshop Mix has a shake reduction feature that can fix an image if the camera moved when it was taken. I also learned that you can synchronize projects on Photoshop with Photoshop Mix using the CC or Creative Cloud. So now I don’t need Photoshop to do things, and can always work on things at home. And I can also make pretty pictures better.
"Adobe Photoshop Mix FAQ." Adobe Support. Web. 17 Sept. 2017. Here is my picture as what you can do: |
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