Opinions Please on Natural Camo

[Fred Weiss]

Working on natural camouflage seamless tiles and would like opinions of these examples.

[Rollie]

Needs more bark

[Pat Whatley]

and less poison ivy.

[Fred Weiss]

Is this better?

[Shovelhead]

better with less leaves....now less middle layer to show more bark.

[Fred Weiss]

By middle layer do you mean the branches or the camo fabric?

[Shovelhead]

the fabric Fred...I didn't even notice the branches.

[Fred Weiss]

And now?

[SignosaurusRex]

The branches and twigs don't have a natural placement look to me. More angle to them would help. just my .02

[Former member]

I like the Idea Fred---
I think the way the branches are placed vertically makes it look artificial when tiled. Maybe place them at more of an angle.

[Shovelhead]

The branches and twigs don't have a natural placement look to me. More angle to them would help. just my .02


yup...they looks placed....with that revision, bellissimo Fredo.

[Fred Weiss]

Okay, here are the branches rotated and a slightly different treatment to the camo fabric. Single tile and tiles versions.

Are we there yet? :rolleyes:

[Former member]

Much Better!

[tikiboyz]

The brighter yellow leafs on the top and bottom where they tile
would look better if it was changed to a darker color :wink:

[weaselboogie]

I think you need to get rid of that bright leaf and that vertical branch.

[SignosaurusRex]

Much better. The vine maple leaves still look too patterned. Needs to be a bit more random appearance. Ya, I know, not so easy to achieve in a tile. Maybe a little varigation in the vine maple leaves might subdue boldness. Some slight redness in one of the species and a darker green in another might help. Are the species colorations all matched to one season for realism? Just a thought.

[GB2]

I agree about the yellow leaves, I don't think you should have singular elements with such sharp contrast sot that when tiled, they form a row or column of contrasting elements. Your first post was actually much better in this regard, though looking a little contrived, but better mix of color.

[Replicator]

much better in post #12

[autoxtras]

I think you need less bright colors,more bark,some oak leaves and maybe some brownish colors.

[Fred Weiss]

Thanks for the input everyone. We ended up with a series of eight varied images .... different bark, different camo fabric, different leaf color, each in the same layout. They will be part of our upcoming Plotter Art™ Seamless Texture Tiles Volume Two soon to be released. They will also be available at ExpressClipart.com in the near future for individual purchase and download.

Attached are low resolution versions.

[Craig Sjoquist]

they all look good and natural to me, but why the 5 leaf weed lol guess it looks ok tho lol

git r dun

[Carl Crabtree]

Fred,
You may want to check out this website
http://www.mothwingcamo.com/camouflage-patterns.php

[Fred Weiss]

Fred,
You may want to check out this website
http://www.mothwingcamo.com/camouflage-patterns.php

Beautiful stuff but it wouldn't work for seamless tiles.

[Fred Weiss]

Here's a quick Photoshopped sample of a tiled background in a frame with text.

[Flame]

Nice. Be neat to have that as a tile-able background.

[Fred Weiss]

Nice. Be neat to have that as a tile-able background.

You can. :rolleyes:

Here's the same background on a pickup.

[Flame]

That's what I meant Fred. It's neat you're working on that so it's tileable.

Props.

[chopper]

I think they look good but I also think just a few less leaves would be better,
just my opion//chopper

[iSign]

Nice job Fred.
I showed up late, so here's a contribution for consideration in Plotter-Art seamless Tiles vol 3:

Some leaves should be upside down, some curled, some cracked or crushed...

and sort of unevenly distributed would be nice, but I realize even that would be challenged by tiling which would, of course, evenly distribute the uneven distribution.