How to Create Textures From Scratch! 

"Don't shoot any textures in the sunlight". I seem to have an advantage... I live in the UK, where sun is only visible every leap year ;)

In Gimp, the offset tool is in Layer > Transform (a much more logical placement IMHO)

I feel like your voice just epically deepened when you came to the computer xD

Plot twist: he was actually filming in green screen and the entire forest are CGI

When photographing leaf and grass textures I usually place them on a piece of black coloured paper. For me it makes it better to select the black areas and convert them to alpha textures. Good tutorial!! I enjoyed your weird enthusiasm.

I'm super confused as to how you're recording yourself taking a picture of the leaf at 6:27 when both your hands are occupied? Your right hand is holding the camera and your left hand is holding the leaf. CG Geek third arm confirmed?

Very entertaining. I like that you say "if you don't know what it is, look it up". LoL. Not here to teach basic photography. Love it

So when getting textures for Unity or Unreal Engine going out there to take pictures with a camera is the way to go? That awesome. Now I have a much easier way of understanding on how Game designers do their jobs. Game Designing looks more fun to me now.

6:28 I imagine a guy with a head in a shape of a camera is making this picture :3

We need more upbeat tutorials like this, too many monotone boring ones out there lol good info but makes me want to change the video or fall asleep, I need more of this in my life lol thanks

CG Geek Nice tutorial. I did manual conversions to tiling textures like this a few times, but then I discovered the seamless filter in GIMP. I don't know if there is a PS equivalent (I only use open source software), but I have found the Filters->Map->Make Seamless feature in GIMP to work quite well and it is completely automated so it only takes a few seconds.

Brief + Technical + Funny. All the elements of a superb training campaign. And next time you go out venturing on your own in the woods, take the AR-15 with you.

I'm not a professional, but regarding the seam removal. You're using soft brush crop tool, which means you either don't entirely remove the seam or create new seam with the brush at the edges. Therefore you need to do another offset and remove what's left. Of course if first offset was 1/2 of the size, another one needs to have different values.

I think this was a really good vid. I appreciate all the work that must have gone into filming the woods section and then the blender tutorial in it of itself. The outdoor filming had a looser feel which made the video entertaining as well as informative. Thank you for this.

your voice sounds totally different when you hop on Photoshop XD

Thank you for taking the time to make these videos. I'm just starting out with Blender and Gimp, and am learning a LOT from your tutorials. Subscribed.

"I'm not complaining, but I'm complaining" - got a laugh out of me. Great video, thanks and keep up the humour. :)

the way this guy acts is pretty interesting and carefree. most of the time my mind will roam elsewhere but this is engaging

I learned more about creating textures in the last 20 minutes than I did in the previous 20 years.

The select subject feature of photoshop cc really helps...

I like that you took the effort to make a really practical video like this one!

Never disappointed with CG Geek tutorials. Thanks.

the young CG GEEK

i am not complaining but i am complaining ~ CG Geek lmao XD

Before 6 years : Cg Geek PERFECT! After 6 years : CG GOD!

I think this is my favorite cg video i have come across so far :)

Steve, To create a Tilable Texture I have always made the canvas 2x in both directions, Then mirrored the lower left corner (The original Image) both vertically and Then horizontally and Then mirrored the right lower quadrant vertically To create 4 quadrants of The same Image. This way The seams are seamless. (no? have You tried to do it This way?) great Tutorial. Thx.

Hello,thank you for your tutorials I have a question.Would you make tutorial about realistic head modeling with realistic textures(projection paintings)?

Finally tiling and transparency settings within Blender explained. This tut was very helpful! Thanks!

One thing i've found to make capturing small objects in the wild is to take a small piece of chroma key blue. Even a blue poster board helps. It makes editing everything out much much easier. Very nicely done video.

It's crazy that your average person knows so little about modeling when it's such a massive wealth of information. It touches from photography, to cinematography. But starts with art and design. And those are just the base skills you need to have. Before anything you need to have an imagination and a thirst for knowledge. But once you've mastered the virtual space, anything you do in life will help with it. If you're a roofer, your modeled roofs will be on fleet. If you're a doctor, you anatomical knowledge would be second to none. It's really a craft worthy of the utmost respect. But no one pays any attention to it, instead they worship someone who can throw a ball accurately over fifty yards. I prefer knowledgeable ability to athletic ability any day. If there was speed modeling contest where judges watched two or more artists compete to make the best piece I'd watch it. Like they'd receive a random category like dark dungeon, or grassy meadow, then they just have to go at it as fast as they can. 10-60 minute matches depending on the works. Something needs to divert attention to the industry, 'cause it's so much more than an industry. But that's what they consider us. It's an art form. We''re more than just lanky nerds sitting at computers. The vision needed for it is worth competing for and further developing. We need more pathways for aspiring artists to become noticed through competition with their peers.

This video is not just informative, but -very- entertaining too (talking about the part in the woods here). You got some entertainer qualities there! :D

Ur hilarious! Love the vid and ur style of silliness! Good watch. One thing, with ur camera settings, iso really wants to be a lot lower. Get urself a stable tripod (like the one ur video camera is on i guess) ;) and decrease shutter speed to let more light in. Also, hope ur shooting in at least 10bit raw :D

I take these pictures with a phone (vivoy69) it's camera is good. While shooting things like leaf and small plants i use a black background so that i can add transparency by contrast difference....(or something). This tutorial is very good because in most CG tuts are lazy kind of.......

Is he drunk? )

The rock texture looks like japan when tiled lol. Anyways this is a very informative tutorial! Thanks

I just love nature, nothing like making your own thing

Another thing that helps with the depth of field problem is to used a camera with a smaller sensor. Full frame cameras produce a shallower depth of field than anything with a cropped frame sensor. That's why cellphones and GoPros have everything in focus.

Drink everytime he says "texture" lol

hey steve please please please make a specific tutorial video for PBR means how to use it and what is ment for what just explain that to us in one video for total beginer and every thing about pbr by the way love your content (love from India)

It really helps with the cloning step if you lower the opacity of the brush a bit.

+CG Geek Thanks for the tutorial ! I tried to make textures before but I didn't know of the offset. Big foot confirmed!

+CG Geek I have that shirt :D

The appropriate focal length depends of the sensor size, it's note the same in all cameras.

Instead of "cranking" the ISO increase the shutter speed. That doesn't add any noise at least.

Once you tile it in photoshop, you can quickly test how well it tiles by turning it into a pattern and doing a fill on a new image with that pattern

This was super helpful, and just what I was looking for! Funny too ;-) Excellent work

I love the vibe in this guy :D

Can't you shoot pics with a left-right mismatch and then cut out the bits that make it untilable?

"I'm not gonna show you how to do the bump map, normal map, and all the other things..." ARG. That's what I wanted to know!

This video was on my to-do list to find. All is well. ^^ Thanks, CG_G!

Man, that forest is really beautiful :D

For when you had to divide the texture size in half in photoshop, you can use the percentage option and set it to 50% instead of using a calculator especially if your result will be a non-integer.

Thanks for the info on shooting the textures. I am confused why it was necessary to divide the rock texture into quadrants & use the clone stamp though. Why couldn't you just make the area square as you did and adjust the brightness/contrast without the clone stamp? Thanks.

Great video in every way! Well presented, clear and concise, and delivers on the title. Thanks man.

Your shooting your textures with a SLR camera but can I use a bridge camera without the focul length ?

This is realy easy. I thought textures are hard to make, but it's actualy not. Thanks man, great video.

You are funny and AWESOME! Subscribed and liked! :D

for the tiling bit doesn't it make more sense to set the canvas size to 4 times the size of the image, then duplicate the image and mirror it vertically, then do the same horizontally to make it seamless? i mean that would look 0% seamless; the method he's using seems prone to imperfection

That shirt totally delivered. Absolutely entertaining and informative video. Thumbs Up!

That is a cool rock.

But if you had to uv a flower, you would need a repeatable texture for lets say all the petals. It would be impossible to make repeatable texture of petals (leaf), because it itself is directional, is this correct? Why didn’t you do repeatable for leaf? Anyone can disscus this ?

Very nice tutorial and most important that was fun :-). And some ps instructions ... I really apreciate this and maybe on the future you will do more ps tuts...

Nice Tutorial ! Thank you for ticks to play with Textures

I went out and shot some textures with my phone but they did not turn out all that grate because it was getting dark is there any way to shoot textures in a controlled environment for example in a work office/room. If there is willl you please make a tutorial on how to do it.

I often use my scanner for gras and leaves because it automaticly gives a texture without distortion and a smooth and even light setting...

The best way to tile textures is Krita's wrap around mode. Have fun, guys!

Haha informative and funny. Full of personality. Good video fella!

Great video - Yes, this is just another piece of fan mail; sorry :-/ - and EXACTLY the info I was looking for. Detailed and accurate, with the bonus of being friendly and funny. But then, you know all this, ha. Super helpful. Many thanks!

Texture, texture, texture textur, texture x999 Great tutorial btw. Very entertaining

I dont really have a photoshop software. Recommend any free ones for a windows computer? I heard Pixlr is a good one

Dear sir, I will have to thank you kindly for giving me an advantage over my peers at college as I will be working on a 3D environment project very soon and this video will help me to understand more interesting tools to use in Photoshop. I do alot of textures myself from scratch but painted, not images edited, I even painted a brick wall that came out very nicely which I would show if I could. Lucky I got a camera of my own so when I get the chance, I will go and take some snaps myself.

I like this guy.

Nice tut! Thanks for all these infos. Will definately take picture in a different way next time!

@CG Geek what camera model did you use for your textures ?

Hello, thanks for the tutorial, been trying to find something like this; however, whether you can or not, would it be possible for you to make a video relating to the process of unwrapping a texture / image? Like a coke can, or the brazuca football? If you could, that would be great!

Your videos are the best..do you have any explaining bump mps and stuff?

maybe in the way of 1 million subs

These are really good, informative videos you have here. Thank you very much. Keep up the good work!

Would scanning a leaf be a viable option?

Always great content. Thanks to all, who take their time to upload, and share their trade secrets. It is much appreciated.

I'm not really sure this is what awesome actually looks like.

Thanks Alot It really helped me out awesome tutorials always. Keep up the good work!

+CG Geek Do you Recommend shooting in Raw as the color has to be reset afterwards or Jpeg and letting the DSLR handle the after effects?

Thank you I will use this in blender for ps1 style graphics!

Don't forget your umbrella next time!

what kind of specs are important to consider when looking for a camera and lenses for texture hunting?

This tutorial is great... but it's over before it started for me, since my camera is cheap and I cannot adjust its aperature.

just take some synthetic piece of fabric or just white paper and you can shoot leaves etc against this background without holding em in hand and with any DoF

What camera did you use?

Great tutorial i was looking for

I was wondering, how can I personalise a tree leaves and trunk? Thanks a lot for this video!!

Are textures better with less details like moss and pretty linear like plain dirt?

You said blending together LOL (do y get it?)

CG G eek are you a visual effects artist ? What would be the use of the textures you created ? (for cartoons or video games )

not sure why you decrease res of the textures...

Had a feeling when I was reviewing my pics zoomed in....the sun messed them up....thanks a bunch

Thank you for this tutorial, it will be very useful :)

you should mention color checker ,that is great tool to get right colors

also when creating a rock you tile around a surface not flat out on a plane so the tiling is less apparent 19:33 Great tutorial Thanks!