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Tutorial: Cloning a Photograph to Your Textures

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#8

I’m glad you found it useful! To be honest, I learned quite a few things while putting this together.
I wasn’t even entirely sure that it was possible when I woke up this morning. :slight_smile:

#9

Thanks Aurick, Like I always said you have a gift for using the written word to explain things in a very clear and easily followed manner. I will certainly give it a try. I also hope that Pix is given the go ahead to use it in the new version.

#10

Thanks Aurick! I always love your tutorials on all these different things… :slight_smile:

#11

absorbed it while reading through it (i think :)) you have magic ways to explain things for sure, Aurick! :smiley:

  • juandel
#12

excellent tut my friend ive never used the clone brush but i think i have a better understanding about it now thanks to you and others… great tut its headed of to my favorite topics list…and then on to printing…

#13

another awesome oldie but goodie :+1:

#14

Great tutorial, Aurick :+1: :+1: :+1:

stargo

#15

I’m not getting the part where you draw with the butterfly wing tool…how do you make a tool from the photo?? The butterfly wing is the photo isn’t it??? Thanks for any help you can give!

Arleen

#16

wow great tutorial!! Thanks! :+1: :+1:

#17

hi aurik!

thats a fantastic tip that you have posted…can u suplement this with a script if possible? i am not able to pick the layer for clonnning…

am very very new to zbrush and texturemaster :slight_smile:

thankx

#18

Brilliant.

I don’t fully get it yet so I’ll have to give it a run through.

T

#19

Ditto to whats been said. Looks sensational. I’ll have to check it out.

#20

Aurick,

So let me know if I am getting this. First of all if you want to place a photo onto an object you first have to cut it out and make a mask then use the mask to hide points on a plane then apply the texture to the tool. Then the photo is ready to be placed on an object as a tool???

#21

I’ve been using this technique to apply tattoos to my creations. A simple and elegant approach.

#22

You can use any method that you like to create the background layer. In this case (which in retrospect may not have been the best example, after all) I wanted to apply the butterfly wing to the woman’s texture. Since I already had the wing as a tool, I used the approach that I’ve illustrated.

On the other hand, the background layer can also be created in Photoshop. All that you need is the element that you want to add to your texture, set against a background that matches the texture in the area where you want to apply the photograph. If you’re very careful with the cloner brush, you can even get away with a black or white background.

Ringbearer: There are two ways to create a tool out of a photograph. The first is to make a texture with a black background. When you apply the texture to the object, turn on the Texture>Transparent Texture button. Everything that is black will disappear. The butterfly had black parts that I wanted to keep. So I had to use a more creative approach. 1) Import both the texture and an alpha of the wing’s shape. 2) Create a plane with modified initialization settings to give a very high polygon count. 3) Tool>Modifiers>Selection>ALP to apply the alpha as a mask. 4) Also in the selection menu, click Hide Pts, followed by Clear. The shape of the plane will now match the shape of the texture. 5) Apply the texture.

Again, all of those steps aren’t necessary for this cloning method if you simply make the background image in Photoshop.

Hope that clears up the questions. When I wrote this, my butterfly pictures were still fresh in people’s minds so I guess that they followed along a little more easily. LOL.

#23

Ah, I think I’ve got it now. Awesome technique. I’ve learned a lot here.

Just a quickie thrown together to see it work.

#24

THANK YOU!! That makes a lot more sense to me now and it’s good to know several ways to do this.

Arleen

#25

aurick
Thanks for the excellent tut

#26

I can’t get this tutorial to work in ZBrush Version 2! It’s as if the Cloaner Brush doesn’t work!

Does anyone else use this method to put textures on their models??

Carmen.

#27

Hi Carmen from " "
It’s an old tutorial :slight_smile:
But Aurick has made a sort of Upgrade :slight_smile:
Wait 5 minutes, I shal try to refound it :slight_smile:
Pilou
Ps Yep that is one
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