Photoshop CS Training Videos

Photoshop Advanced Texturing
Photoshop is hardly taught or marketed to texturing artists. It is always taught or marketed to digital photographers, graphic designers or printing houses. Photoshop has a wide array of tools that make it an excellent tool for texturing. And though Photoshop is the choice for this task most everywhere, many people are in the dark about its expansive abilities as a texturing tool.

This 9+ hour video marries the abilities of Photoshop as a powerhouse digital editor and the industry requirements of video game / CG Texturing. This video is, from start to finish, how to create a finalized CG or game texture from: planning to creation to exporting for 3D / video game use.
This video features a wide set of Photoshop tools. Some tools are not common while others are uncommon applications of common tools. The end result of this project based tutorial is a highly tactile and visually detailed production-ready texture, whose creation is witnessed from beginning to end.

Artists Profiles

Andrew Britton – is a passionate instructor of Computer Graphics at the DAVE School in Orlando, FL. While working for 3 years at EA – Sports in FL, Andrew created training situations ranging from: training new hires, teaching a self-created course on image processing and EA's proprietary tools, publishing the training manual with EA HQ and assisting on projects both in and beyond the FL studio. Andrew was a texture artist and environmental modeler with EA working on: NCAA Football, NASCAR Thunder and Madden Football. It was here Andrew decided to switch to a profession more suited to his desire to teach. He now works as the Graduate Maya Instructor, and one of the Photoshop Instructors at the DAVE School. He created a curriculum here that marries his talents and professional experience, now teaching the Maya for Video Games course. Adding to the effectiveness of this course, Andrew is a Certified Instructor if Alias’ Maya.

Through his own business, Wandering Artist Studios LLC, Andrew Britton authors computer graphics instructional media. Andrew also runs his business as a fine art photography studio. It is important to note that while he spends much time behind the computer, his photography is strictly film and process without digital enhancement.