metals texturing ask?

MohsenDehnavi

hi my deras,

i am an noob environment artist.

but i have a large problem in my works...
my textures not will good.! not biuatiful!
for example in creating hard surfaces such as:metals,woods,....
for metals i have quastion:
1-how to scrape/scratch metals in photoshop?(give me these brushes)
2-What do metals better in texturing?
3-for sc-fi scenes,do i color to metals texture?or how to create metal textures better?

total:i am weak in creating metal textures,help me and say me techniques to i improve my creating metal texture!
thanks

passerby

you should show a example of your work, but off the bat from what you said. I would say less photo sourcing, if you want coloured metal, start from just a solid colour in photoshop.

There really is no make scratches brush, just try your hand at hand placing some images in screen or overlay mode, or create a hard edges brush, with some randomness to it and trace edges with it.

For good metal, you should keep the diffuse texture pretty clean, and put most of of detail in the specular texture, and put some detail in the gloss texture too. Use the gloss to define different types of material, and for things such as grease or finger prints on the metal.