(Question)How to make Bump or Specular Map from Simple JPEG

[necko77]

ok, i see that you need it all and if you want to learn how really everything works plz get yourself this tutorial

http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/263/

Texture Painting: Weathered Surfaces
Photorealistic Texturing with Paul Campion

this is tutorial in which i learned how PROs doing texturing and its really great and helpfull. . . (warrning : texturing is time consuming )

u will understand texturing proccess, connecting your modeling software with photoshop
and these tehniqs are great if you want to creat somthing real from reference images
u will be able to learn how to create reflecion, bumps, normls etc in PS, u will be master of reflections, normals cos u will be createing them how u like
This tutorial is part of my VIP software which i carrey around with me


if you need fast results then use programs like shadermap or something like that which is great too
+ blender UV + little painting in PS + octane render = great results

i hope this helps

[tonycho]

Wow Thanks Necko

very appreciate your link of tutorial.
you share some of your secret of success

[necko77]

Wow Thanks Necko

very appreciate your link of tutorial.
you share some of your secret of success

np man, and for the end i wanna show ya cube that i created using texturing in PS with tehniqs from that tutorial...
reference cube is right now infornt of me and it look almost identical compering to render cube

[cornel]

dude, it took me some time to remember, but now I found that link:

it´s a free online normal map genertor, and it works like a charm.

http://www.smart-page.net/smartnormal/fl10.htm

maybe helpful.

[tonycho]

Thanks Cornel
very2 helpful

[acc24ex]

a bit of a late post, but I have to say I tried a few generators, and crazybump http://www.crazybump.com/ got me very good results, I used it on parquet that I shot with my dslr, and it looks great on everything, generates normal, bump, specular seems the easiest solution if you have a tileable texture.. and the software has a simple enough interface

anyway, another quick tip to make it tileable in photoshop is to use the offset filter, say for a 1024x1024 texture you do the offset filter of a 512x512, fix the seams in the middle and you get yourself tileable texture..

also, take a look at Pixplant http://www.pixplant.com/ has a PS plugin, can get powerfull but didn't use it as much, and Mapzone http://www.mapzoneeditor.com/ - free, uses procedurals

[tonycho]

Thanks a lot acc24
All looks good. But maybe crazy bump is the better one, is that right?