Using Texture to Enhance Digital Paintings in Photoshop

After completing this course, you'll be well-equipped to begin experimenting with texture in your own digital paintings

By strategically implementing texture in your digital paintings, you can not only raise the quality of the image but also the level of realism

Finally, we'll learn a few methods of making our two dimensional textures appear to wrap around the three-dimensional forms of our painting

From here, we'll learn how to create our own patterns and several of the areas where these patterns can be utilized

Learn several different techniques for adding texture to our digital paintings in Photoshop

Next, we'll look at some ways that we can bring images into our paintings, layering them over areas to create texture with the help of blend modes

Software required Photoshop CS5

Texture and surface detail is one area that is often overlooked by digital painters

We'll learn how we can create and configure our own custom brushes to paint texture

With this course we'll get started by diving into Photoshop's brushes