The Art of Poser and Photoshop- P9:Before you dive into the first chapter, be sure to download the content and images from . You will see the title of the book in bold and below that, you will find the files you need. Please download the files for each chapter and place them into a main folder named Tutorials. You will be asked to reference the images from that folder as you work through the tutorials throughout the book. Of course you will need Poser Pro and Photoshop CS4 as well | 228 The Art of Poser and Photoshop The Official Guide Figure The Levels adjustment layer settings 9. Access the tutorials ch5 folder. Open the image. Use the Warp command to shape the texture to reflect the convex shape of the concrete slab. Change the texture s blend mode to Darken so that the richer detail on the texture matches the dominant areas on the concrete slab. Give this a layer mask and isolate the effects of the texture to the stone areas. Figure displays the results with the layer mask turned off and Figure displays it turned on. Be creative and experiment with this. Don t be afraid to achieve something slightly different from what you see in this example. Apply the same technique to the upper concrete slab. 10. Open the streaking image from the tutorials ch5 folder. Open your stone detail layer group and place the streaking image below the protruding rock detail. Apply the Levels adjustment layer settings as shown in Figure to in enrich the sky detail a bit. Next apply smart filters of Gaussian blur and motion blur choose Filters Convert to Smart Filters to the sky image as shown in Figures and . 11. You re going to apply the same technique to the protruding stone structures in the background. Select all of layers that represent the vertical stone structures and merge them into one layer Ctrl E Command E as shown in Figure . It will help you if you turn off the glass tube layer group temporarily. 12. Next apply a smart filter of Gaussian blur choose Filters Smart Filters Blur Gaussian Blur . See Figure . Chapter 5 Advanced Nodal Texturing in Poser 229 Figure View of the texture with a mask turned off Figure View of the texture with a mask turned on 230 The Art of Poser and Photoshop The Official Guide Figure Apply a Levels adjustment layer as well as the smart filters of Gaussian blur and motion blur Figure View of the Gaussian Blur dialog box Figure View .
