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Right, im going to show you all my method for making Camouflage (updated 16/07/2004):

1: Create a new image in whice we make the camouflage - in this example I am using an image size of 256 x 256 pixels to reduce image size, but you will probably want to raise this to 512 x 512 as you want to apply it to a skin.

Firstly, select two colours for your camouflage. Try to keep the colours dull so that the imgae does not become too vibrant and oversaturated later - I decided to do woodland camo for this tutorial and I used the colours 54,42,37 for brown and 60,67,58 for green (RGB).

2: Now, goto Filter->Render->Clouds, then to Filter->Artistic->Sponge (changing the options to Brush size 7, Definition 5 and Smoothness 14).

3: After you've done this, create a new layer (Mode: Screen, Opacity 50%). Now select to lighter brown and green colours and repeat step 2 using these new colours. Merge these layers. You should now have an image that looks something like this:



4: Now you've got this far, it's time to tweak it a little bit. Get your Burn and Dodge tools ready each with a large brush (450/500 will do nicely) on the following settings:

Burn - Midtones, Exposure 10%
Dodge - Highlights, Exposure 10%

Now run a Burn and Dodge through your texture twice (note that the more dodging done, the more desert coloured your camo will look).

5: Right, now goto Filter->Sharpen->Sharpen, then go to Image->Adjustments->Brightness/Contrast and increase the contrast by 10 to 30%, whatever looks best to you. Your camo should look similar to this by now:



6: Final stages - Get out your beloved Burn tool and, using the same settings as before, run three burns through the texture. Finally, goto Image->Adjustments->Hue/Saturation use the following settings:

Hue - +5%
Saturation - -20%
Lightness - -10%

(Make sure the 'Colourize' box is unticked)

And the final texture should appear something like this:



Here is the camo applied onto an existing texture as an overlay layer at 75% with some minor adjustments:



Now you have no excuses for poor camo, so get to it!

I hope this tutorial can be of use to some people.

Nice *should be stickied ASAP*.

Thx m8, this is my first post I ever locked at CDG ^^

Updated due to request.

Edit: Ive also unlocked this thread so I can answer any questions if anyone has any. Please, keep it clean guys.

For those looking for a quick way to get accurate camo patterns, you can't beat this site:

http://members.at.infoseek.co.jp/mortar/HOME.html

Yeah, it's in Japanese, but just click on the little soldiers to acces the various sections (the camos are split by categories: digital/dot based, tiger stripe/lizard, desert, urban, etc...) or the first cap on the left for the complete thumbnails archive. The beauty of it is that all the samples can be tiled, so you can cover any surface size without having to worry about ugly joints.

P.S.: Enmity, those pants you retextured look really familiar...

he's here...

ps. good tut for the beginners!

is it possible to attach ghillie suit to a model, on a sniper model

i have never foudn out how to make overlay..how you do that.(with photoshop CS)

Layer blending mode> overlay

Yes, from one of your DEVGRU hacks

By the way, I liked the SAS models you released; I don't know if you remember but I actually emailed you some time ago requesting them!

I can't say I remember your email specificaly... But to my defense, I got a lot of people asking for these guys over the years...

Glad you like them. Some people seem to think they are too close to the default, but in my opinion the SAS is the default that's closest to the real thing.

well seeing as how the good ol U.S. is getting out of the old rounded blotch style of camie patterns, how about some digicamies?? has anyone tried that, and if so, howd it turn out, and if not, how hard would it be?

As far as I know, only the USMC is switching to digital camo, the other branches of the US forces are keeping the same old patterns for now (although I've read something somewhere about the USAF looking into tiger stripe camo...).

Anyways, I've done a set of models wearing the original Canadian CADPAT (yes folks, we Canucks were the first to use digicam ):



Contrary to other camo styles, the thing to remember with digital camo is that if you need to rescale or resize your pattern, you have to do it without pixel resampling. That way the pixels in the pattern remain sharp instead of having the edges blended, so when you look at it closely it still looks digital at any scale.

actually the army is switching, the navy already wears the MC digicamies, and the AF is getting some too, but the Army's look fugly to the max, the way the pockets are and such. im just used to wearing the MC digicamies down at boot camp =). btw the MC has the most comfortable GI boots of all the services, that's about all they have that is the best in creature comforts.... ill look around to see if i can find the pix, i saw it in a newspaper at bootcamp. i do remember something about tiger stripes, too, they did that back in vietnam IIRC.

**Edit** here's a link to the new US Army digicams, i think their pockets are are strangely placed and aligned. and velcro nametapes, that just makes it seem like theyll just take your camies off ya when you die and givem to some new recruit lol.

http://www.dtc.army.mil/ig/igdesk/newACU.html


**Edit** well here's the USAF ones, you were right about the tiger stripes, and it seems like they are somewhat digitized, heres a quote: [quote]Recalling the “tiger-stripeâ€Â

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