Another Texture to feed to the snarks

Well, this time I went for more of a smooth look on the rock surfaces, let me know what you guys think.   Personally I think I need to do more work on it but I figured it would be cool to run it through the snark tank:

Here is a slight variation:

the variation is better, the shadowing/lighting is ok, theyre just too smooth

yea, agreed.   Slowly but surely I'm getting there.   I'm going to add more variation and diversity to the surfaces.   I have to say though I am getting much faster, and developing some good techniques.   Eventually I'll do some tutorials when I am 100% confident in my methods.

Thanks for the feedback.

It looks splotchy, like camo clothing.

I don't think the moss comes out strong enough - looks more like green paint that was dripped around and has faded over time.

me looks over ReNo's avy  what happend to the rat?

I agree, the mossy spots aren't coming across well.  One thing I would do, is try flattening the whole thing, duplicating that layer, adding a good bit of noise to the duplicate - then go in with a low opacity eraser and start erasing away the new, grainy later.  You should be able to add a little messiness that way.

Here Grim, I took it upon myself to play with your texture - hope you don't mind.  I did what I suggested above ^, then also added some moss to the cracks and rocks.  Play around with the noise filter - just a little bit can help pull you away from that clayish/plastic look.

 

not so keen on the moss, they have more texture to them but they are allot more blurry now. Needs to be sharp for a texture imo.

Ya Korn..I may have used a little too much noise.  It definately needs alot more work to get the moss believable.

Much better than the last one! :biggrin:

Two complaints:

1. there should be more contrast between the grout and the stones.

2. the stones should vary more in color and possibly texture.

I really like Grim's lichen, it would go well with grey stones.

Finger- your moss besides being blurry isn't subtle enough.

Ok..so my moss stinks :razz:

I like the new moss better than the old stuff, but perhaps its a bit too overused? My main concern is that the noise has given rise to randomly coloured pixels, look closely and you will see pink, yellow, purple and more. Shouldn't you use monochromatic noise rather than coloured stuff? Not sure what sorta look it would give in this case, but its the type I always use...but then I work mostly on metal.

Wild: I decided to have a change, I was getting a bit bored of the old rat :smile:

ok..spent a few more minutes on it.  Less moss, monochromatic noise, little messier.  Still not perfect; I'm sure Grim will do a better job of it in the end.

 

No problem Finger, kind of cool that someone actually took the time to play around with my texture :smile: .

The moss was actually a last minute add, I actually feathered a selection over the original moss, ctrl-lmb on layer ctrl-shft-I to invert the sellection, feathered and deleated some of it.   I think I deleated too much though, it had more definition before. (actually I feathered before I inverted to be exact :biggrin: )

I'll put some more time into this one and post the progress later, thanks for the feed back.