I made two new tutorials aimed at beginners:

Basic Environment Textures - Part I (Easy)

 In this tutorial you will learn, how to create a simple environment texture (in this case: sand). You can use this on most simple rather single colored environments like grass, grock walls, dirt...

Some techniques this tutorial will cover:

• Make a texture tiling using the clone brush
• Use the color of the original texture
• Use some shading of the original
• Use color match

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Basic Environment Textures - Part II (Easy)

 In this tutorial, you will learn how to combine different environmental textures to create a new one. This is especially usefull, when you do whole areas.

If you have not watched Part I you should do this now.

Here are some techniques we will cover:

• Working with layers
• Use a layer mask to blend textures
• Use a clone brush

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