Matte Painting Epic Digital Scenery in Photoshop
Throughout these lessons we'll learn how to create an epic matte painting with digital images in Photoshop. Software required: Adobe Photoshop CS6.
What you'll learn
Throughout these lessons we'll learn how to create an epic matte painting with digital images in Photoshop. We'll learn how to choose a theme, choose our source images, set up our scene and the perspective for our elements. We'll also discuss which key factors we should keep in mind while building our matte painting structure and composition. Next, we will blend our elements together into a seamless composition by creating custom brushes and using color gradients. By the end of this tutorial you will understand the key principles and composition factors of creating a matte painting. Software required: Adobe Photoshop CS6.
Table of contents
- Composition Principles 9m
- Setting up the Scene 5m
- Sketching Our Thumbnails 10m
- Choosing the Source Images 3m
- Creating the Value Composition 10m
- Testing the Source Images 8m
- Selecting and Cutting Objects 10m
- Building the Perspective 9m
- Adding Our Cropped Elements 9m
- Creating a Background 10m
- Adding Depth and Detail 6m
- Adjusting the Mood 5m
- Creating Custom Brushes 11m
- Reviewing Key Principles 7m
About the author
Sorin Bechira is an award winning graphic and multimedia designer, with multiple degrees held in fine arts, multimedia techniques and new media. He is always willing to experiement in design and is constantly looking for challenges in every field of visual communication. Including, but not limited to, digital matte painting, graphic design, branding, experimental illustrations, typography, as well as interactive and new media. Sorin combines traditional techniques with digital ones in order to o... more