Really sorry if Im overcomplicating things or just being plain stupid, but I want to give my best answer and dont think I can do that until I understand fully, maybe someone else who understands better will jump in and save you, in which case you're free to ignore me
pmgolf wrote: ↑November 25th, 2020, 7:13 pm
The 2nd thing. Keep the Links-screen-print picture first cut texture (which is regular rough) as it is and use the texture in the first picture to replace the deep rough in the Links-screen-print picture. Yes. I want to have the colors of the two (rough and deep rough) blend together better - still with some contrast, but better blending.
Ok I understand that part, that should be possible to achieve, if you want I can give it a try myself if you send me the "first cut" texture and the one you want to use, or send me any course where they both are on (even if its nothing but a flat plot with 2 textures). I know you often like to learn how to do things yourself though (I approve of that) and I can try to describe my thoughts too, however I will say it often takes me a bit of trial and error myself, and I might be off when only going on what I try to make out from the pictures above.
I feel like it looks as if it needs a bluer hue, and perhaps less saturation (saturation I often think is particularly difficult to "see"). You seemed to be aware of the hue, so Im curious what made you feel like you didnt manage to get it right. Maybe you just didnt find the correct hue level? In some cases, if being picky, it can get trickier and this might be one of those instances, where a texture is made up of different colours and changing both at the same time will never make both fit in simultaneously... In that case, you could (in Photoshop anyway, I dont know about other software but chances are they could work pretty much the same) go into Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation > then select "Yellows" or "Greens" instead of "Master", at the bottom you'll see the range of colours your edits will apply to then. You can even click and drag the ranges to custom adjust the exact range of colours you want to edit. That way you can for example make the yellow grass more to the green side, without changing the colour of whats already green.
To me it looks like the brightness is already fairly close to the "first cut" texture, but normally you want the deep rough a little darker than the first cut to get it to look right. So Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast is one I use a lot too, and one you might want to experiment with. One can use the "Lightness" slider under hue/saturation instead for simplicity, but I always feel like the brightness setting gives slightly better results.
(the deep rough in that Links-screen-print picture is actually that same texture that will have it's color changed. It was a deeper green originally but I've managed to change it a little.)
I dont understand this part, same texture as which? It doesnt look like same texture as your first screenshot to me (even ignoring overall colour), but I suppose I could be wrong.
And secondly: Are you also interested in trying to change the deep rough in the 2nd picture to fit in better at the same time, to have options? Change how?
If it actually is the same texture as the first picture, then you can forget what I said about that. I thought you werent happy with the deep rough texture in the 2nd picture and therefore wanted it changed in some way. My only guess would be if you wanted it to have a more similar look to the first cut, otherwise I dont know.
