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In this movie, we're going to be covering how to make even more detail, and we do this using the detail already set down and use a dry brushing technique to get even more detail in here. So, if you're not familiar with dry-brushing, it's basically taking a very texturized thing and pushing black paint into it, and then adding white paint on top of it to push out the details. Okay, so let's break that down. Let's go in here and go into Masking mode and hit Mask By Cavity. What this does, it masks off all the high regions, and allows all the depth regions to be unmasked, okay? So, I'm going to grab some darker color. I'm still going to use this Alpha. In fact, I'm going to go use the rock Alpha for this, and I've got a darker color gray, and I'm just going to click and drag out. Take ZAdd off and RBG on. I just want to use RBG values, not height values, and I'm going to tint these rocks. Now notice it's a little blue. That's good. You always want to put a little color in your rocks, if you're doing this. And I'm doing this everywhere, it's not just the rocks, you know, like the grasses, or the terrain, or foliage are going to get some, too. Okay, good. Now, let's clear that mask and see what happens. Oh, that's a lot more detailed. You can see all these little cracks and crevices and bumps and everything. Okay. Now, that's very high contrast, so let me show you another little trick. If I mask my cavity and then Blur Mask about three times, and it's to taste, you know, it's like one of those things, it might be three times, it might be two times, it depends. Okay, now what I'm going to do is grab some of the texture. Now I click and drag from the Color palette over to get this, see? Click, drag and I can capture some of the actual already laid down value. And I'm going to make it a little brighter, and this time I'm just going to throw some of this whiter color every once in a while. And I'm going to go into blue, add just a little bit more blue to this every once in a while, too. Let's Clear. Okay, so what that does, it stains the rocks in certain areas, and it brings even more of a value up because now I have a higher contrast between white and dark. Okay, so that is the movie about Cavity Masks. What I would do is save this out because we might further utilize this later on in one of the other movies. So, Tools, Save As. Notice how organized I'm keeping this. I've got Alphas, I've got Textures, and now I have Tools. That is the key to ZBrush.