So pretty much it has come to the point where I need to texture my boat.....

WIP

The texture maps are the for Cargo Boat Hull Exterior.

Bump Map:

Diffuse Map:

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I created seperate layers for each color. Each color is to define an attribute of wood coloring range. Then I created masking to make my work on the texture non-destructive. The masks also hold the design of the wood texture.

I need help with.making it look good. The boat is being composited into a HD-Film and the relatively closte shot makes for the need to increase the realism of the wood on the near-side.

Any help is appreciated.

Google for "Wood worshop", its free app for creating wood textures. D/L it and play a little, you can create realistic wood in no time :)

Create washed look, it will look much more realistic than highly saturated color ;)

When I creating textures, I folow my instict and experiment. So there is no linear recipe :)

Few tips, add clouds on separate layer and set it to Overlay or some other blend mode that will burn it into layer below. Play with Lighting Effects and alpha channels. In short experiment allot ;)

Hope some of this will help you :)

Tihomir

yeah, I've been fighting with the washed look.....I don't like the saturated look. But, right now I'm trying to get the design done then I'll work on color correction and such.

Thanks

D/L the free app I mentioned above. The best tool for wood I have tried. Of course you can create wood from scratch in PS, but thats waste of time ;)

Tihomir

True, I'll download it.

I can always edit the texture after creating it, if needed..

I came across that link some time ago. But, didn't think much of it.

Yes, exactly :)

You can always edit and enhance it later :)

Tihomir