alecmoody

Yeah, I am trying to not make it overly dirty. The business end and the rear bumper should be pretty worn but the rest shouldn't be over the top.

more work.

The model is ~1600 polys and I am about 1/4 done with the diffuse texture. The normal map is nearly finished and the spec mask is temporary.

Edit:

Finished product:

~16,000 polys with normal map and AO. Im using xoliul's viewport shader with a cubemap ambient source and one omni. The tread extrusions are built to be easily removable for a first LOD stage.

Some textures I have painted in the last few weeks:

all of which are made from a combination of hand painting and my texture photo library.

I think people tend to miss the basic important stuff. I would:

1)Define a pixel, and how an image is made up of pixels. Then I would elaborate on that and explain how resolution and data are finite, explain up sampling, down sampling, explain how DPI actually works...

2)Discuss RGB values, and bit depth.

3)Introduce color spaces and basic color management. Explain how an RGB value is only a number and doesn't become a color until it is passed through multiple devices that attempt to use a common understanding of what said value is (ICC).

4)Discuss destructive editing.

then maybe move on to actual interface and tools like layers and brushes.

This is happening because your firefox is not color managed. The images in the browser are being viewed in your monitor's color space and judging by the color shift your photoshop working space is probably adobe RGB. You do not need to delete any profiles.

You can either un-color manage the document (bad idea for everyone elses viewing but makes your viewing match). Or you can update and or modify your firefox to color manage images and then make sure they are in sRGB space so that they match (check convert to srgb in save for web). Depending on the kind of work you do your photoshop working space should probably be sRGB. Making your images for a color managed browser is the best way to go, especially since most newer browsers are adopting it.