Golden snake skin help

[Meeyo]

Hello! On the second picture is the logo I've been working on. Originally it was green, then I changed its color to gold and added this glowing effects via bevel&emboss and added a little bit of glow to give it a little more depth. It's not bad but I'm into making it more real by applying snake skin effects from the first picture. I've got no idea how to do that, there are no similar textures to make a clipping mask so I have to create my own. Any help is welcome!




Mod edit... the first snake image will do.....

 

[dv8_fx]

Hi there....

I can suggest doing a search for seamless tile snake skin to create a full length skin or a nice snake skin texture of your liking.

Then look at this tutorial by one of our mods and adapt/tweak the lesson in order to shape the skin unto your snakes in the logo... https://www.photoshopgurus.com/foru...having-marshmallow-effect.html#post1533690674

Hope this helps.


edit.... see if this works for you.... http://www.pulsarecard.com/data/media/22/Snake_Skin_Plus_by_Jennifer_Layne.png

 

[Meeyo]

Thanks man! I think it should be enough

 

[SPWA]

Can I also make a suggestion. Where the snakes crossover each other, the top one looks as though its squashing the lower one. (unless that was your desired effect )

I suspect this is the bevel & emboss on the separate shapes giving that effect. If you wanted to lose that, you could keep the snake as a whole shape, and mask a small section over the top to give the impression it's overlapping. This way you wouldn't get the squashed areas.

But like I said, it's just a suggestion. Love the shape of the logo though.

 

[Meeyo]

If you wanted to lose that, you could keep the snake as a whole shape, and mask a small section over the top to give the impression it's overlapping. This way you wouldn't get the squashed areas.

I'm not sure that I know what you mean. I get why you suggested that, but the masking thing is not clear to me. Photoshop is not my strongest side. Logo is originally vector, but I exported it like .tiff so I can manipulate it in Photoshop (whole logo is on one layer). Texturing is almost done, and the intersection is lost because of that, so I planned to use the Burn tool to darken the colors where the snakes overlap. Thanks for the kind words tho

 

[IamSam]

You have your snakes on two separate layers. You apply your layer style (bevel & emboss) to each one.



Position the snakes where you like them.



Then you apply a layer mask to the snake you want to go under the other.

In this case, snake 2 will go over at the first intersection and under at the second (tail) intersection.
So we will apply a layer mask to snake 2.
Choose you Brush Tool and a medium to hard brush. Choose white as your foreground color.
With the layer mask selected, brush over snake 1's tail to reveal.