Photoshop for Designers: Rendering & Texturing Round Objects

Name: Photoshop for Designers: Rendering & Texturing Round Objects
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A guide to Photoshop design sketching with focus on rendering and texturing of round objects

Created byMarouane Bembli

Last updated 5/2016

English

What you'll learn

render round objects in Photoshop & make them look 3D
Figure out how your light source will guide you in your rendering and sketching
know what tools to start out with when sketching digitally
know the simple difference between rendering a shiny surface VS a matte surface
wrap any texture of your choice around any round object in Photoshop and make it look realistic
use dark and light shades correctly to visualize shape
easily create a shadow on the ground and correctly show it in perspective WITHOUT over complicating it

Course content

4 sections • 11 lectures • 48m total length

Introduction3:01
Quick overview of the course content
Downloadable Course PSD File & Brush Set0:09
Please download these resources before starting the course

What tools to use? Watch out for this!6:21
The tools we need for this course does not have to be expensive. In this lecture, I'll walk you through what to think about and what options you have when picking out a digital sketching tablet.
Sketch warmup - Let's get the creativity going5:01
We need to get the creativity going before jumping in to the rendering part. Here's how I do it. I think it will work for you too!

Light source: Determine this before starting shading3:22
The single most important thing to always keep in mind when rendering is your light source. This will guide you throughout the render.
Shading our ellipsoid - what to think about5:31
Now we jump into the fun stuff! Let's start by rendering our ellipsoid and make it pop!
Shading our sphere - how to make it look 3D and less flat4:56
In this lecture we move on to rendering the sphere.
Visualizing glossiness with shadows3:18
Shading is essentially the use of light and dark shades to visualize form. Here I show you how to use darker shades to do this.
Visualizing glossiness with highlights4:20
Glossy or matte surfaces are determined by what type of reflections you chose to use in your rendering. Here you'll learn the difference between them.
How to sketch shadows the easy way5:31
Adding a shadow doesn't have to be complicated at all. Here's how I do it and it doesn't require using any guidelines, as long as you know where your light source is!
Quick-Quiz on Shading!

Requirements

You will need access to Photoshop and any tablet. Mouse will do to start with.

Description

Hi I'm Marouane, welcome to my course on Photoshop for industrial designers.

This is the second part in the Photoshop for Designers series and in this course we are going to cover how to sketch and render round objects in Photoshop using a digital sketching tablet such as a Wacom.

You will also learn how to take an image of a texture of your choice and wrap it around any surface you like. This is extremely useful if you are rendering products in Photoshop and need to add specific textures to surfaces. It saves a ton of time!

By the end of this course, if you decide to follow along you will have a sphere or a ball rendered in Photoshop with a texture added to it of your choice.

I would love to see your textured ball uploaded in the Q&A section of this course!

This course is for you who are starting out with digital sketching or simply want to learn how you can use a tablet to design objects and products in Photoshop.

Make sure you download Photoshop file that's attached in the first section of this course. This way you can see the layer structure and how the shading is built up by opening up the file on your computer.

Also download my brush set inside the course if you like.

Thank you for your time! I will see you inside the course.

Marouane

Who this course is for:

This course is mainly for beginners of design sketching or Photoshop sketching in general. If you want to learn how to sketch, render and texture digitally, specifically round objects and shapes that can be transformed into products if you like, then this course is for you.

Photoshop for Designers: Rendering & Texturing Round Objects

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Course content

Introduction - Course overview2 lectures • 3min

Tools We Will Use & Sketch Warmup2 lectures • 11min

Shading & Rendering Round Objects6 lectures • 27min

Texturing Round Object in Photoshop1 lecture • 7min

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