Well I have my perfect 3D coin with text textures I made, lighting, even those lines on the side which I finally figured out how to turn into a texture and thin them out.
Now for some reason it started as a repousse object and now I can no longer edit it as a repousse object which means I cannot apply the final extrusions *KABLAM GOES PHOTOSHOP!!!"
My thought about Photoshop artists are:
- They have a lot of training, so they know their tools better than we do.
- They also have more training in drawing in general, on paper etc, so they are used to projecting 3D ideas onto 2D in their minds.
- They have Wacom boards.
- The artwork is their work so they put much time and effort into it. And patience. They try and try again.
I have worked together with Photoshop professionals, and they can whip up nice things in no time using tricks I never knew existed, but they also fine-tune details, almost at pixel level.
So their "magic" is very much training and spending time on the tool. At least from what I have seen.
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