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[PS] Checkered/corrugated knobs

Vitus

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Hi there,

although Photoshop and I are good buddies for a long time now, I still have no clue how to generate good textures for checkered or corrugated knobs. I mean something like this:
knob.jpg


Right now I am using the following method:
1. New layer, background white fill
2. Strong Noise filter
3. depending which mapping method I used:
...a) if I use my taper-modifier mode, I add a strong radial-zoom-blur
...b) if I use a normal cylindrical map, I add a strong motion blur filter.
the result of both methods are black and white lines.
4. playing with the blending mode to add the shadows and highlights to the colored layer below.

The result is not too bad - at least it adds some structure to the knob. But the problem is that the lines are positioned very randomly. I have quite a few of these knobs in my cockpit, hence I really need a good method for creating the texture.

What are your suggestions?
Regards
Vitus
 
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Yep a "careful google image search" is a good way to get some reference. But for that you need to know the correct vocables! :rolleyes:

My point is: with my actual project I realized that most often I get better results when I photoshop the textures from the scratch instead of copy & paste an image and modify it. With photographs, lighting is always an issue that you don't face if you draw your textures yourself! The only things I copy and paste from photos are little details like screws or rivets on the instruments. But that's basically it. The rest is my own artwork :p
instruments.jpg

(disregard the main panels background. That's just a draft until I figured out a good layout for the instruments)

Before I realized that, I used the google image search quite a lot. And another thing with that method is that you can spend hours to find an appropriate picture. Not anymore ;)

But I agree with you that the cylindrical map is easier to map in this case.

Regards
Vitus
 
....and by reviewing it, I realized that I made a capital mistake:

Phillips screws were just invented in the 30ths. Therefore it is not very likely they where used in that excess in the Electra. Another item on my list: change the graphic to a slotted screw...
 
Vitus said:
My point is: with my actual project I realized that most often I get better results when I photoshop the textures from the scratch instead of copy & paste an image and modify it.
Click to expand...

Which is precisely why I added "or at least some inspiration" to my first sentence. Once I see something I want to replicate, I can draw it by hand quite well...

...but, lacking something visual, my muse remains stubbornly mute... :ziplip:

I would think that a "Robertson square drive screw" would be more likely than a slotted. Henry Ford's Model T used over seven hundred Robertson screws... ;)

Stanchion%20Robertsons%20C.jpg
 
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Hi Bill,

I didn't thought about squared screws! Thanks I will consider it. I hope I will be able jump in the real cockpit within the next weeks and now I will pay extra attention to the screws ;)


n4gix said:
...but, lacking something visual, my muse remains stubbornly mute... :ziplip:
Click to expand...
at least you have a muse! I have to do all by myself! :rotfl:

All the best!
Vitus
 
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