Well... in fact I do the bump maps from the skin I created before by using several filters to get the right tones and contrast. 95% of the map shows the right behaviour: pores, creases and such are dark/deepened and gooseskin, folds are bright/aised. Then I look at the map at 100 to 200 % and go slowly through it from one side to the other and from above to below and search for all things that are paradox: Moles, freckles, some scars, bodyhair. Some of the moles and all the freckles are evened out then (with the healing brush) as they are in fact not raised. Other moles are raised and I have to edit them by hand with a brush or the dot tool. Other things need to get more darkness, here I use the burn tool - best thing is to keep the bump at RGB here and use grayscale mode only on the jpg.

The really problematic parts are kept on seperate layers: Brows, lips, nipples. It depends completely on the original color of these parts what to do now: You can invert them and alter brightness and contrast until the surrounding skin matches the base (and than burn and dodge as usual). You can alter the brightness and contrast until you get what you want or create and avarage scala of grays and paint by hand. In fact I had to use all of the technics for Antonia's bump map because the original skin was so full of contrasts. The bump map takes at least a full working day after the textures are seamless but I think it' worth it and even if someone calls me silly now: To me it's one of the most fun parts!

Handpainting a texture is a BIG challenge! on the one hand you do not have to care for stretching and tweaking and what it does to the photo-resource. But on the other hand: try to pick up an average color of a photograph of a stomach and paint it on a leg or foot and you know what you will go through

The material poses are already corrected, so the VSS materials are already specular map-free. I am working at the private parts now... and can tell you that they give me a hard time. It's pretty much the same as with the "paint on the leg" thing I wrote above...

I'm not always right, but my mistakes are more interesting!

And I am not strange, I am Limited Edition!

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