Texturing The Castle
If you have not worked extensively with photographic textures before, I suggest that you work along with the demonstration using the same file that is shown in the figures. If you are an advanced user, you should read through this chapter, then apply the principles to do the assignment at the conclusion of this chapter, and add textures to the toned castle you created at the end of Chapter 6, “Form.”
If you are working along with me, open the file Castle_Form_Finish.psd in the Chapter 6 DVD materials. Keep all the layers created for the form painting to use with the texture files. Make sure you’re working in 16-bit for this part of the project. (While doing the perspective drawing, I often change to 8-bit so the file responds ...
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