I think you're asking for more painting techniques then quick and dirty photochoppery tutorials where people seem to have some magic overlays they always use? For the quick and dirty choppery overlay route, you might want convert it to B/W before overlaying. Have you been trying out ALL the blend modes? Overlay and…
[ QUOTE ] A couple more... An ancient HarlequiN tut, but might give you some ideas. http://qbranch.cottages.polycount.com/tutorials/metals.shtml A newer one on CGTalk by Stefan-Morrell that goes into more detail. Tutorial:Hard Surface Texture Painting [/ QUOTE ] Thanks for the links guys. I've seen some of these, that long…
Is there even such a thing? I don't need an explanation of what it is, I don't need to know that nothing is perfect and everything should have wear and tear (to some degree blah blah). As in a lot of tutorials for texture creation just make the texture and then say "lets scratch it up by overlaying this texture with some…
A couple more... An ancient HarlequiN tut, but might give you some ideas. http://qbranch.cottages.polycount.com/tutorials/metals.shtml A newer one on CGTalk by Stefan-Morrell that goes into more detail. Tutorial:Hard Surface Texture Painting
Make bigger brushes, like 300x300. Also make them from contrasty source, black and white is good. You might get some ideas from these brushes. http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=27688 More brush sets from the same guy.…