Have you paid for your photoshop?
polycounter lvl 9
To all the artworkers, texture artists and modelers here, did you pay you photoshop license?
Silly questions I know but I need to know...
Silly questions I know but I need to know...
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http://www.adobe.com/products/catalog/cs6._sl_id-contentfilter_sl_catalog_sl_software_sl_creativesuite6.html
You just have to take a roundabout way through Products > Creative Suite 6 > Photoshop CS6 > Buy CS6 in order to get there.
Of course I think a studio would usually pay for that stuff for you, so...
Maya - Try Blender
Photoshop - There are many free alternatives depending on your needs/taste
Zbrush - Cheap comparatively and worth every cent
Its certainly not a cheap line of work IF you choose do to go with the most expensive tools out there, but they are far from being a requirement.
To note, being more expensive doesnt necessarily mean better in what kind of assets it can pump out.
Modo for example is more than half the price of Maya, yet arguably a far better modeler among other things.
Zbrush is cheap considering its functionality and lack of charged updates. Sculpting exist in Modo as well as other applications such as blender and 3d coat. So depending on choices made with primary 3d application, you wont need to buy zbrush (though its useful and the best out there), its not a requirement for making good game art.
And as its already been pointed out, there are many alternatives to photoshop. In a way, photoshop has been becoming less relevant for texture painting over time, many tools are filling its place, whether it be substance designer or just painting directly onto the meshes themselves. I find Krita a great (free even, unless you buy it on steam) alternative for some of the functionality Photoshop does, in fact I find its brush system superior in many ways.
So the point is you could technically accomplish great art and hit all major areas of the pipeline without spending any money at all (blender, krita/gimp..ect) or by spending only a fraction of what you would if you went the (maya, zbrush, photoshop) rout.
Besides, I achieved a much improved texture workflow with a combination of Krita, Photoline, and 3dCoat now. Krita is hopefully about to receive a 3d model opengl preview, and other 3d texturing improvements in the new GSoC.
And I am very happy with Photoline as a general image editor replacement for Photoshop. The overall layer workflow is arguably superior to Photoshop, with "virtual layers" that are basically cloned instances of other layers and layer groups.
What's more, layer masks and groups behave like layers themselves, so with instanced layer masks you can cascade changes you make instantly in real-time throughout the project. Unlike Photoshop's awkward smart objects that cannot be edited in place nor update in real-time and require a save.
Since PL supports full adjustment layers and layer effects (and also includes a built-in simple procedural texture generator), these can not only be applied to regular layers and groups, but also to layer masks and groups! Photoshop's layer masks pale in comparison, and seem very limited.
And textures can be organized in pages as well (virtual cloned layers/masks can be used in other pages). I also own a license of Filter Forge that runs without a hitch in Photoline for almost unlimited texture effects. Most regular plugins work in Photoline. Ndo and Ddo do not, however.
Krita can be used like a plugin in Photoline, so it is easy to work with Krita in combination with Photoline. Gimp also works as a plugin with Photoline ( both via PL's app link). And Photoline's footprint is very small, and can be installed on a portable drive.
Finally, for direct 3d painting on a model I use 3dCoat. Photoshop's 3d mode is too limited and awkward to use anyway (in my opinion). 3dCoat blows Photoshop's 3d painting out of the water. And that is aside from all the other 3d goodness that 3dCoat offers.
So, in a nutshell: no more Photoshop for me.
Content-aware fill, spot healing, layer blending, Dodge/Burn etc...
And, like Photoshop, it is one of the only image editors that supports "blend if" - but Photoline's implementation ("Color Filter") also supports blending in HIS (Hue,Intensity, Saturation) mode, aside from grey and rgb.
The painting option in PL are more limited, though. Krita works really well for that type of work.
I'm doing okay with GIMP now, though still have to get used to the floating windows system.
you can change the style to something that looks like photoshop
ps.:
bought cs6 and it will be most likely the last version i purchased if they cling on to their subscription model (and cloud crap)
As for the rest I use MSPaint
http://youtu.be/SDc9sns01J0
I know ndo and 3do are photoshop plugins, but I thought ddo was standalone? Otherwise I guess I'm out of luck and will have to skip out on trying to use it once ddo2 comes out.
Agreed. Especially seeing the nice connections for substances in Unreal and Unity (and apps like Modo and Max). Photoshop is quite limited in workflow compared. The indie pack is a bit of a no-brainer.
Lol, I googled it and found an article about it, and read the first comment, which was exactly my problem, that I wanted to have all my stuff inside one window. I kept clicking between them and focus on the program in the background, what was annoying.