Looking for a tutorial on how to make freckles for textures.

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marco-xxx had a pretty neat method of doing this in the Material Room. See the attached thread.

was looking something more for p4 or pro

After studying my own skin for some time (I am the stereotypical pale-skinned, freckled, green eyed redhead), I tried painting layers over a skin texture. One layer, several freckles of a certain size/color; second layer, a slightly different size/color... several layers and then one for the odd parts like moles and skin blemishes. Blur each layer a bit, add some noise and voila! fairly servicable freckling.

BT Sculptor seems to be the King of Freckle textures. I know he has something in the Renderosity Store about creating skin textures and it would probably have stuff (maybe) about freckles.

I use Flaming Pear's Glitterato filter in Photoshop. I do it on a separate layer, invert it so the "stars" are black and the empty space white. From there you can either "Chose Color Range" and delete the black all together, or use Multiply or Screen over your texture. When I have black dots instead of white, I lighten them up to a med gray and then colorize. When you get the color you want, set the layer to Overlay or Soft Light over your texture, adjusting the opacity as you see fit. After that, it's just a matter of erasing what you don't want. Hope that made sense ;o). Laurie

Thank you LaurieA your help was great! Here is what I got when I did it with Flaming Pear's Glitterato filter. Remind you I did this all in 10 minutes from Photoshop to Poser. It usually take me an hour just to get the lips right. I just overlaid it on a texture I had done a few weeks back.

er.. I can hardly see the freckles on that texture... But the ones that ARE visible look good :o) Great trick, LaurieA, I'll try that at some point :o)

It's not actually my trick...LOL. I learned that from someone else a long time ago...hehehehehe. And it's always been the best method for me anyway. Just remember to turn your stars up really bright and the density down a little. Then your freckles will be big enough without having too much to erase ;o). Noise never quite did the trick since the dots turn out too small and angular and they get square if you use Maximum or Minimum on them. Glitterato makes nice circles ;o). Something else you might want to try (especially if you are making a high-res tex) is to add slight noise to the freckles themselves after you've colorized them. Play with lightening some and darkening others as not all freckles are created equally and have color variations, even within a single freckle. That's if you want to get REALLY detailed...LOL. Laurie