Paint with External Apps / Painting with Photoshop pt. 2
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Alright, let's go ahead and get to painting. Now what we're going to do is we're going to look in our Layers. As a matter of fact I'll just tear this panel right off so we can focus on it. Let me go ahead and just close this. I didn't mean to click that. And what I want to show you is, if you look at this Panel you can see that we have our donut and it's on a 3D Layer because we see the little 3D cube and if we double-click here it opens up a different little panel. And in this panel we can click on this little third guy here to look at our materials and as you can see we have something called the Default. This is the material that we can paint on. Now we can paint right away or, if you wanted to, you can click on this little guy right here and choose New Texture, and you can name it whatever you like as well. So you can call it Donut or whatever, so if you want to create a new layer or a new texture just go ahead and do that. I'll go ahead and do that anyway and as you can see it's says it in my Layers now, so we'll be painting on this Donut Texture. So let me go ahead and close that. Now all we have to do is start to paint. So I'm going to choose a color from my Swatch down here. Click one time. Choose a nice donutty color and I'm going to also show you something else real fast. If I double-click on the Donut Texture the actual name that you saw there, right here, where it says Donut, it opens up the Texture and I'm going to quickly fill this whole thing with this color. So I'm going to go to Edit, Fill and I'm going to choose Foreground Color. Then I'm going to close this texture that appeared here. So I'm going to go and click on this little X and then it's going to ask me to Save, so yes, I want to save that and check it out. Our donut now has the appearance of that texture. So I'm going to make sure I have my little Rotate Tool, move the donut into position like so, change the color to a, like a glaze kind of color, grab my brush and paint right on here. Hmm, donut! And I'm just going to go ahead and make myself quite hungry, get in my car when I'm done, head over and get some donuts. Why not? So, that's the first layer of the glaze. Let's go ahead and click on that Swatch again and get a lighter color and do another pass. As you can see my Opacity is 100 percent. I'm using a soft brush, 25 pixels and I'm using just the flow at full strength, 100 percent. And I'm going to do just one more pass with a white color. So I'm going to go all over here and just keep going, right in the center just give it a little shininess. Grab my Rotate Tool here and now we have a donut ready to roll. So how do we get this guy out of this monitor and into Modo? Well, we go back to the 3D Menu and this time we're going to Export the 3D Layer. I'm going to create a New Folder inside of my Donut Folder and call it Donut Color. Once again I copy that, paste it and make sure that my format is once again WaveFront OBJ and Save. Texture format I can change to whatever I want. I'll go ahead and choose JPEG and we're ready to go back to Modo. So I'm going to clear this out. I'm going to go to File, Close All and now I'm going to go to File, Import, Donut, my Donut Color folder and here's the obj. And just in case you're wondering what the texture looks like, here it is. This is what we painted. The Donut.jpeg, the glaze. So I'll click on the obj, Open and then it's going to say it doesn't know what to use as the color, so we're going to tell it. Where is the file that it needs for the color of that object? Well, it's in the same folder. Donut.jpeg and here it is. So why don't we see it? Well, I'm going to go to the Items list and I'm going to twirl open this Donut Color, click on Mesh and there we have it folks, a donut that was painted in Photoshop CS4. I'll go to my Render and as you can see it's ready to go and it looks actually good enough to eat. Yeah, I know. That was corny, but as you can see it looks really good and it was painted in Photoshop CS4 Extended and brought into Modo ready to go into an animation or anything else.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Luxology Modo 401 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 34052 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-79-3 |
| Release Date: | 2009-11-04 |
| Duration: | 7.5 hrs / 119 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | Available on CD and Online University |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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