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Photoshop: Texturing and Shading Techniques

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

Tags

Adobe Photoshop Courses Digital Art Courses Color Theory Courses Texturing Courses Shading Courses Ambient Occlusion Courses Subsurface Scattering Courses

Course Description

Overview

Learn how to work with shaders, brushes, colors, and highlights in Photoshop to perform shading and texturing of various materials and surfaces—hard, translucent, 3D, and more.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • How to use the exercise files
1. Prepare the Artboard
  • Artboard setup
  • Importing reference images
  • Linework cleanup and staging
2. Understand Textures and Materials
  • Introduction to material shaders
  • Base highlights and shadows
  • Color and surface texture
3. Set Up Colors and Textures
  • Set up seamless textures
  • Create color and texture flats
  • Color and value balance
  • Adjust linework transparency
4. Base Shading and Highlights
  • Ambient occlusion
  • Shadowing techniques
  • Highlighting techniques
  • Main light source and refined shadows
5. Final Touches
  • Specularity and roughness
  • Subsurface scattering
  • Basic background painting
  • Finishing touches
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Rayce Bird

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