Tutorial: Animal Skin Mask
Learn here how to create an animal skin mask texture with the help of the flagstone generator.
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Step 1: Creating a new texture |
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Launch the New Texture Dialog
by pressing the Set the Width and Height values to 512x512. Press the OK button, the background color doesn't matter here. |
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(upper left corner) or selecting the File->New menu item.
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Step 2: Getting the basic flagstone pattern |
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Select the function Generator/Flagstone. Press the Reset button at the Presets Panel to load the function's default settings. Click with the left mouse button on the texture to generate the flagstone pattern. |
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Step 3: Rounding the edges |
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Select the function Filter/Smooth. Load the Default settings at the Presets Panel. Set the Smooth Radius to 16. Click on the texture with the left mouse button to smooth it. |
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Step 4: Removing the lower frequencies |
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Some of the stones are brighter than the others. This can be compensated with this step. Select the function Filter/Homogenize. Press the Reset button at the Presets Panel to load the function's default settings. Click with the left mouse button on the texture. The texture will lose most of its contrast. |
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Step 5: Getting back the contrast |
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Select the Color/Maximize function. Load the default settings at the Presets Panel. Run the function on your flagstone texture. It's a bit noisy now, but this will be fixed in the next step. |
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Step 6: Smoothing again |
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Reselect the function Filter/Smooth. Set the Smooth Radius to 8. Smooth the texture by clicking on it. |
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Step 7: Black and white |
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Select the Color/Black and White function and load its default settings. A Bias value of 50 is fine here. If you use a higher value, the resulting spots will be smaller. Click on the texture to finish your animal skin mask. |
