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Published: 2014-04-06 12:51:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 2109; Favourites: 40; Downloads: 11
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To think there was actually a time when I did not understand how to use textures...I've made this (not so small in the end) demonstration to show what using different textures can bring to the very same image.
Dedicated to sirius-sdz.deviantart.com/ naturally.
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Just download one. In photoshop just add it to your projct ctrl+a ctrl+c. Now select that layer and set it to ex 'soft light'.
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I do this all the time, just with brushes and filtered layers and stuff, but it never looks like your works. Maybe it's the base thing that looks different. I do not really draw, after all.
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It's mostly experience and practice. Yeah, just as boring as that.
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Dear Maker, I'm so impressed and excited and I'll spent quite the time now to just stare at those...
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While most of your comments will go on about the different textures, I'm just gonna say yay for 14 pics of these two together
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Aw thanks, I hope it's useful to someone.
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This is really interesting to see. 
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Thanks so much. It was a bit of a surprise to myself as well!
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These before/after/different shots are damn good. It always shows how much the artist is trying to get the best out of it.
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I like that much better than someone who might indeed be very skilled making a perfect replica of a screenshot or photo. Why bother? I like to see some personal interpretation.
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You are right, when someone is putting some effort into altering pics or screenshots to get the best out of it it is some kind of art.
I hate nothing more as to find totally unaltered screenshots around here. Some people do not even try to blend the icons out, the black frame or even the dialoge.
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There are some pretty hilarious screenshots out there though. What may annoy me is when someone is posting 20 screenshots per day one the same site making you end up deleting all. You might have missed a really good image.
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Very true, I try to avoid that myself. And I am very picky about what I post. I must like it myself otherwise it went to the dustbin.
This one I do not wanted to post first, but a friend talked me into it. I was glad he did
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Thank you, from an artist like you it is a huge compliment
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He he. To think that when I first started waffling on about textures you were so unimpressed. Now you have been corrupted. 
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Well I tried one or two, leather and bark something... but that was before I found Sirius' and understood how beautiful and versatile textures can be.
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They just give that little bit extra at times, the icing on the cake.
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Oh I let them totally run wild with my image, that works best for me.
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The cold green looks real nice! 
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That one has a scary 'rockwall' feeling. Like they are deep in the Roads and this is the last embrace as they know they're turning to Ghouls. Of course this implies that in the next scene they will give each other 'the mercy stroke'
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Oh gosh yes! But if it were down to that neither would hesitate.
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Wow some of them look really amazing
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Now I see the moon! That would absolutely work!
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Oooooh, I like the last one! The cracks add desperation somehow...
The lave one and the one in cold green are nice too
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You might be right about the cracks. That one would be a lot of work though, but in the end might be worth it.
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This was really interesting! I love playing with textures. Your artwork is amazingly lovely, too, as always.
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How can you resist making 14 images of men hugging!
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Now you're going to hate me but I prefer the ones in which the image isn't too covered by the colors of the textures, but I love the lava one and, of course, the original one despite the fact that the black at the edges of the image covers half of their bodies
I was planning to use the texture with the spot that looks like the Archdemon for the Zevran I'm doing for a friend
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Of course not! 
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textures are fun, I've also discovered that you can combine 2 or more, and in different ways, using the 'only light tones' or other layer options
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Heh, I do that too but not for this tutorial.
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I know you know 
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Heh, you're not the only one. My kids are desperately trying to teach me how to use my Iphone while I secretly keep the good old Ericsson around.
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kids 
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That's true. My daugther asked me how you met a friend in town before cellphones. 'You picked a time and a place' I said. 'Mother, that sounds so 1900' ah well...
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We are vintage 
On the other hand it's curious how people that are our age can't live without cellphones and gps anymore, they are lost, and they had lived without them for 30 years
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I was often lost, still am in fact.
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wow, wonderful to see them in use like this!
added this to my FAQ sirius-sdz.deviantart.com/jour… if you don't mind
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Naturally not, honored in fact. Making this was a bit of an eye-opener to me as well.
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That's what I wanted to present. Make artists look at their images in a different light. Too often you have this pre-conception in your head.
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yep, it changes the mood and approach definitely.
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What I love most is that it forces me out of my safety closet each time. I wouldn't say every image is a success but I learn from it.
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