How to make interior walls look more realistic

[tamarac53898596]

Hi,

I'm using the Benjamin Moore paint colors for room style boards.  Is there a way to make the paint look more realistic, have some "depth"?

Thank you!

Tamara

[Chuck Uebele]

Can you post an example? Are these style boards illustrations of rooms or actual photos?

[tamarac53898596]

Hi Chuck,

Here is an example...

I've added a "paint brush texture" in a shade darker which seems to help. 

[teachbit]

what about a darker wall by using lightness&contrast:

[tamarac53898596]

Oh I like this!  What steps do I do to do (that's a lot of "do's") this?

[Chuck Uebele]

You need to add an adjustment layer to create a darker shade then mask it to create the effects of light filling the room from the light fixture, door, and any other illumination source. Here's just a quick example. You would also need to create other shadows under the table and for various objects in the room.

[Abambo]

As I said shading and perspective!

Because of the dark carpet, I have the impression that the table is floating ... a shade would kill that impression.

[tamarac53898596]

Thanks Chuck,

I do use shadowing, unfortunately it changes the color so much, I wish masking could be done with something other than black.

[Abambo]

tamarac53898596  wrote

I wish masking could be done with something other than black.

A mask is a monochrome image, with white representing an opaque pixel and black a completely transparent pixel. Any shade of grey in-between makes the pixel more or less transparent. You may pretend that being a red coloured image (indeed, when showing the mask overlayed to the image - for example for painting the selection with quick mask - a red coloured mask is used.

Shadowing does not change the colour, but the colour's brightness/lightness perception. No lightness means a black image (switch of the lights...) and full lightness means a white image.

[Chuck Uebele]

Yea, I missed the part about eliminating the back shoe.

[Abambo]

I suppose you left that over as an exercise for the OP?

[Chuck Uebele]

Yea, that's it.  

[sishamIAGD]

Adding a few shadows/shading (as Abambo said) like so would help... (roughly done )

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Asking questions about images but not showing them can make a meaningful conversation difficult.

Even what you mean by »depth« in this case seems somewhat unclear to me.

[Abambo]

In general terms, "depth" is created by shading and perspective.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

I wonder, though, if depth might in this case also be meant to affect the rooms’ walls’ surfaces in some way, like some spatial unevenness or plastic surface structure.