Scaling Your Dragons

20 high quality photo images of crocodile and alligator skins, which just so happen to work wonderfully as textures for dragon skin.

TIPS
Use multiple textures on your dragons, cutting up each image into sections so that you can really cover the beast in a variety of scale types. Most of these textures will mesh together nicely, so you can stick 'em all together to get nice coverage.
Converting the textures to grayscale before sticking them on an image gets rid of colours you don't want in the final, so you can use a green texture on a red dragon.
Using layer masks instead of erasing textures is a useful trick so if you accidentally remove something you really wanted to keep but only saw this later on in the image, you can just click on the layer mask, grab some black, and re-brush the texture back into the picture.

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The Leather Guy up at Faire let me take a bucketload of reference photos of leather, including a huge stack of exotic skins. So I share my wealth of references with all of you!