You
get to create an old piece of paper and
the tutorial takes you through all the
steps. You need to know the basics of
both Lightwave and Photoshop, though the
tutorial is step by step it does not explain
where everything is or what things do.
Introduction
Okay,
we'll do a tutorial on heavy texturing
now, turning a simple flat plane with
a bunch of polygons into an old piece
of paper with handwriting on it. 50%
of the work will be done in Photoshop,
and there's where we'll start. In the
end, you'll hopefully have something
looking like the following picture.
Picture
1: The finished image
Photoshop
Lets
get going! Start by loading up Photoshop.
I'm using version 6 but I'm sure this
can be done in earlier versions to.
Set the background colour to white,
and the foreground colour to black,
and then create a new document - 21cm
wide and 29cm high.
Select
the Airbrush tool, and then change the
pressure to 100%. I am using the smallest
of the sharp square brushes, look at
picture 2 to check my settings.
Picture
2: The settings for the airbrush tool
Okay,
what we'll do now is draw a line how
we want the edges of our Fantasy letter
to look. Put some time in this to get
a good result, picture 3 is my creation.
Start drawing about 1cm in on the image,
and not at the very edges.
Picture
3: Draw an outline using the airbrush
tool
Save
this outline as outline.jpg somewhere
on your hard-drive now, if something
should go wrong we are safe. Finished
with that part? Good, select the Paint
bucket tool, and set the pressure to
100%. Now click somewhere on the outer
side of this line to fill it with black,
looking something like picture 4. Note,
the following picture is smaller than
the actual image; it's just to show
you what part should be filled with
black.
Picture
4: Fill the outer area with black
The
first map we will create for Lightwave
is the Clip Map, but before we need
to make sure that the edges are really
sharp, and we can fix this by adjusting
the Levels. Use the Magnify tool and
zoom in a corner of your paper, looking
something like picture 5. I zoomed in
the lower left corner.
Picture
5: A zoomed in corner; note the AntiAliasing
that we need to get rid of.
Okay,
select "Image -> Adjust -> Levels"
and a panel should appear. Use the following
settings.
Picture
6: Adjust the Levels with the settings
in the window. Note how the AntiAliasing
disappears.
Click
OK when you've entered the values shown,
and the AntiAliasing is gone, now you
can zoom out again to regular size.
This is it for our Clip Map. Select
"Save As" in the File menu and set the
filename to "Paper_Clip.jpg".
Okay,
lets get on with creating a transparency
map. In the History Panel, the latest
action should be the "Levels" one, as
in picture 7.
Picture
7: History Panel
We
need to undo the last action here, so
click on the "Paint Bucket" action in
the history panel; this will remove
the "Levels" action. Okay, we will apply
a filter to the edges of this paper
now to use as transparency later on,
so select "Filter -> Sketch ->
Water Paper". Set the Fiber Length to
4, the Brightness to 70 and the Contrast
to 77, then click OK.
The
edges of our paper will now be "fiberized".
Save this image as "Paper_Transp.jpg".
Okay,
now we need a Displacement Map. Undo the
Fiber action in the History Panel and
get back to the last Paint Bucket action
(like before when we undo'ed the Adjust
Levels action).
Select
the Magic Wand tool, set the Tolerance
to 30 in the Magic Wand Options panel
and then click somewhere on the outer
black area. This will make a selection
that follows the outer line perfectly.
In the menu, choose "Select -> Inverse",
which will inverse the selection so
we are working with the white area.
Select
"Edit -> Preferences -> Guides
& Grid" and set the Gridline to
every 50 pixels. Also set the subdivisions
to 1, then click OK. Turn on the Grid
from the "View -> Show" menu, but
turn off Snap to Grid. What you have
now should look something like picture8.
Picture
8: Grid is on, Snap to Grid is off,
and the Magic Wand tool has been used.
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Select
the Airbrush tool and set the pressure
to 5%. Select a 35 sized soft round
brush from the brushes panel and then
paint the edges here and there to add
some darker areas. Then pick out a vertical
grid line that is closest to the middle
of the paper, and paint along that grid
line. Then use 2 horizontal grid lines
and paint along those. Look at picture
9 and you'll know what I mean.
Picture
9: Use the Airbrush to darken the edges,
and also the middle vertical grid, and
two horizontal grids.
You
can change sizes of brushes as you like,
but try to get as similar to picture
9 as possible. Also use a big brush,
100-200, and paint all over the image
to get rid of all the white. When you
are done, deselect the selection and
save this as "Paper_Disp.jpg".
Now
use the Magic Wand tool again to select
the outer black area, and then inverse
the selection. Change the Background
colour to R: 215 G: 182 B: 131, and
the Foreground colour to R: 236 G: 202
B: 142.
Use
the "Edit -> Fill" tool and then
fill this selection with 100% background
colour. Select "Filters -> Texture
-> Texturizer" and use the following
settings.
Picture
10: The Texturizer settings
Click
OK and the texture should apply within
the selection borders.
Select
the Airbrush tool and set the pressure
to 10%, the mode to Color Burn and also
select a soft round brush with 100 in
size. Then paint here and there within
the selected area so it looks something
like picture 11.
Picture
11: Airbrush here and there NOTE:
the round ring is just my airbrush tool
;)
Do
you remember how we painted along a
couple of grid lines earlier when we
created the displacement map? Well,
the displacement map will make those
darker areas appear bumpy in the final
image, so in this colour image, we will
create what will look like worn edges
along those grid lines, know what I
mean?
I
can't explain every paint procedure
I do, so I will leave this up to you.
For Darker Red and brown areas, simply
change the Foreground colour to what
colour you want to "burn" the image
with (and remember to keep the Mode
of the Airbrush tool to Color Burn).
Look at picture 12, this is my final
colour image; try to create the same
effects with your brush tools.
Picture
12: The finished colour Image
When
you have finished the work on your colour
image, save it as "Paper_Col.jpg".
Only
one map left to create! The Text. You
can use what you want for this, if you
want to create a treasure map, or a
letter like me, it's up to you. Create
a new project with the same sizes as
before (Width: 21cm Height: 29cm). Use
a White Background and a Black Foreground
colour, then select the Type Tool and
start writing your text with a good
looking font! You might want to keep
the text in the middle of the image,
since we will be using clip maps and
such later on. Picture 13 is what mine
looked like.
Picture
13: The Text we will map on our Letter
Note
that I also used the Smudge tool to
smear out the text after I created it,
making it look a bit older (You don't
need to use the smudge tool though).
Save this as "Paper_Text.jpg" when you
are finished.
