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Set global defaults for your files

to save even more time during

exporting. There are four custom

group settings.

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extures give your work limitless

possibilities inPhotoshop and are an

integral part of most digital artists’

workflow. They inject a true realness into

your pictures and 3D models, whether you’re

adding a canvas to a digital painting or using

displacement maps, so it’s important to get the

best out of them and use them wisely.

While there are lots of programs, websites and

tutorials explaining how to create your own

textures, there isn’t as much help for actually

managing them. Unorthodox Entertainment’s

Texture Exporter though, as the name suggests,

is one such piece of software that promises to cut

the amount of time you spend exporting textures,

as well as making it a simple and user-friendly

process. It is an extremely perceptive Photoshop

plug-in that gives the user an easy-to-use,

customisable and efficient way to manage and

export their texture maps.

Texture Exporter works similarly to an action.

It’s a simple tool designed for enhancing your

workflow, and it even comes with added

tutorials that you can watch by clicking on the

Unorthodox Entertainment logo.

Begin by going to Setup, choosing your

desired resolution and then Create Texture

Groups. Texture Exporter offers eight different

group types – Diffuse, Specular, Normal,

Translucency, Gloss, Emissive, Height and

Ambient Occlusion, plus four custom options

• so simply check the ones you want to add to
  your project, and start from there. It couldn’t be
  any more user-friendly, especially for the
  average digital artist: the plug-in only consists of
  four menu options, and it’s the simplicity that’s
  perhaps the selling point of the software.
  On from there, the Exporter Options are also
  extremely simple. It feels rather like a natural
  extension suited to Photoshop; you can choose
  file type, whether you want to resize the texture


• a bit like the Save For Web Devices tool – and
  any changes you make get stored in your PSD

REVIEWS TEXTURE EXPORTER PRO

HAVE FULL CONTROL OVER YOUR TEXTURES LIKE NEVER BEFORE,

USING UNORTHODOX ENTERTAINMENT’S LATEST ADDON

EXPORT TEXTURES

CHOOSE FROM A RANGE OF GROUPS TO EXPORT YOUR TEXTURES TO

Promises to cut the amount

of time you spend exporting

textures, as well as making it a

simple and user-friendly process

Go in-depth with every possible option for

exporting your textures, in the specific

Export Options button on the menu. Only

your visible groups show up in this layer,

which makes customising easier, and you

can add specific suffixes to your file names

to go even further in-depth, and organise

things automatically.

Creating texture groups is where it all

begins in Texture Exporter. You can

choose to create alpha groups, and

even RGB groups with four additional

custom texture groups. You can then

start exporting with the other options.

Name your custom groups too, to

manage everything about your textures,

and avoid confusion.

Another great little extra from

Unorthodox Entertainment is that

Texture Exporter provides tutorials to

help with your use of the program.

Simply click the question mark logo,

and Texture Exporter will load your

web browser, and assist you with

YouTube tutorials relating to how to

use the add-on.

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