Adobe® Master Class: Advanced Compositing in Photoshop: Bringing the Impossible to Reality with Bret Malley

Chapter 13. Sculpting with Texture: Growth

Covered in this Chapter

• Using a prop as inspiration

• Roots and bark textured as new skin

• Painting and shaping with textures

• Map making and color control with Luminosity

• Sculpting with light

Textures can truly transform any common object into something entirely new, such as ordinary hands into elemental tree hands. For Growth I applied a plethora of textures from jungles and forests I’ve visited over the years to my hands, mixed in some aerial pictures I shot while flying above the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and blended it all with masking, color correction, and Curves. The result was a somewhat fantastical coopting of a construction and development meeting that featured authoritative and anthropomorphized ...