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
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Introduction
- Welcome
- How to use the exercise files
- Artboard setup
- Importing reference images
- Linework cleanup and staging
- Introduction to material shaders
- Base highlights and shadows
- Color and surface texture
- Set up seamless textures
- Create color and texture flats
- Color and value balance
- Adjust linework transparency
- Ambient occlusion
- Shadowing techniques
- Highlighting techniques
- Main light source and refined shadows
- Specularity and roughness
- Subsurface scattering
- Basic background painting
- Finishing touches
- Next steps
