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Create materials and material properties with Photoshop

Create materials and material properties with Photoshop - Dimension Tutorial

From the course: Dimension Essential Training: Workflows with Photoshop and Illustrator

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Create materials and material properties with Photoshop

- [Instructor] With Photoshop, we can create image material graphics for Dimension. Images like this leopard fur, when applied to the surface of a model, will give it a realistic textural appearance. Images of wood, brick, concrete, or cardboard, or any kind of texture, can be used. An image applied to a 3D model surface in Dimension is called a standard material. I found this cool leopard fur image on Adobe Stock. We could place this image as-is directly on a model in Dimension, but if we want the image to repeat instead of fill the entire surface, we first need to set up a seamless repeating tile, and there's a Photoshop filter that makes this pretty easy to do. Let's take a look at how it's done. The first thing is, I want to crop the image to a square. I'll go to my Crop tool with the C on my keyboard, and then in the ratio here, I want to make sure it says one to one and that the Delete Pixels is turned on, and then I'll commit that. The filter is found in the Filter menu at the…

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