Digital BW, The Print

This is such a great idea, in the 3-d industry, we've used this technique
for making textures to apply to 3-d models, I never thought to use it on
photographs!

If I can add something...sometimes when we'd need a little extra texture
(like plates making up the side of a ship or something) we would take our
existing textures of wood or metal or whatever, grayscale them, turn the
contrast way up so it's mostly pure black and pure white with only a few
grays, save it as a new PSD, then, apply a filter under the "Texture"
category, then apply the "Texturizer" filter, then play around with the
setting.  The difference between this and the overlay method is that
"texturing" is something like a bump map, meaning it's trying to fake depth
in the image (like brush strokes), so I guess it get you into trouble if
your not careful.  I guess you could actually apply the texture to a whole
new layer containing a color or a picture, then use that as an overlay,
screen etc...Then you would also have the power of adjusting opacity too.
So many options...  

Jim

----Original Message-----
From: Mark Tucker [mailto:mark@...] 
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 2:35 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Coatings and Mark Tucker Images

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "dsantoli" 
<dsantoli@y...> wrote:
> Mark,
> After looking at the Atlanta Roadtrip images for a while I noticed
> an artifact that shows up in a couple of images.

Yes. I used the same texture file for all of those Atlanta images. 
(I'm lazy). So you might see repeating image textures.

I simply keep a huge folder on my hard drive called "Textures". 
It's full of really boring copyshots of rusted steel, clouds, 
sheetrock walls, trains, pavement, fabric, etc. Each texture has 
its own 'personality', and you match up a texture to a photograph. 
It's actually very fun. I'm always shocked at how much it adds to 
an image; doesn't work every single time, but much more often 
than not.

But the key is also finding the proper Layer Mode that gives you 
the desired look. Of the ten or so built-in choices within 
Photoshop, they're all very different.

MT


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