Matte Painting Tutorial in Photoshop (Abridged) (1 of 3)

[mariascoffee]

amazing work XD

[countparas]

you make it look so easy... guess i gotta keep practicing

[maleorder]

WOW



[neuroxik]

Hey everyone, anybody know (no PC) how to increase/decrease brush size with a shortcut? I've read many places that say the " [ " and " ] " brackets, but they just don't seem to work on my end. Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

[happygamestvfun1]

shuld used nuke or AE

[cesarcastillomarquez]

nice worck!

[cesarcastillomarquez]

COOL

[carlisspace]

wich is the name of the song???

[880728leonjf]

very good tutorial, it explain all steps, thanks for posting it

[victius]

Would have been better to have a commentary and taken it slower.

[wadehjb]

There is a slower version with commentary. The link is in the description to this video.

[furbox]

Thank you so much! This tutorial is awsome!!

[Section9Productions]

nice realy nice you teacht me some new styles:-D

[cc123456789]

that is really nice, you've inspired me do more "set extensions" in my movies with the help of using matte paintings. thank you.

[ElfaMay]

Well done! But what have I to do, to get this great refelexions of the bridge and the sky in the river?

Greetings from Germany!

[wadehjb]

It's quite easy really. Just copy the bridge and sky, flip them vertically and reduce the layer opacity. I then use the eraser to remove any parts that overlap the waterside.

Hope that helps. I also used an alternative water picture to give it a different texture. I describe it in more detail on my website.

[ElfaMay]

Thank you! (=

I think this will help.

I was too slow. By now, I visited your website.

[ebonyhorde]

can anyone tell me the name of the artist music played the first one especially thanks!

[wadehjb]

It's by Virgill and Cons and the track is called "Like a Childbirth".

If you run a google search you can download it for free.

[ebonyhorde]

are you using some plugins? I have photo shop but i cant seem to find the effect u used in 0:18.

[wadehjb]

It is a standard filter with Photoshop CS2 upwards called "Extract", but I'm not sure if it's available on previous versions.

[ebonyhorde]

I am using CS4 seems like Adobe has removed the the extract filter because of their new smart want tool. Thanks for the reply your work is very inspiring

cheers!

[wadehjb]

Thank you!

I didn't know they'd replaced the Extract tool in CS4, but it should mean that the new one is better...in theory. :)

[ebonyhorde]

Also is there anyway i can download a high quality of this tutorial at a slower frame rate lol. :)

[elsephen]

Wow, I was just about to type that you should charge for your tips- until I visited your site and saw the even more impressive photo-realistic digi paintings...

Needless to say, I paypal'ed my 10 bucks immediately. And I feel guilty for it being that cheap. With that said- you're a great person. Thanks a lot. Looking forward to the dvd.

[wadehjb]

Thank you! I'm so glad you like my tutorials and I really hope the DVD meets your expectations! :)

[94GOOGLE94]

i dind you in DA :=)

i am zinou94 ;)

and i faved your mattepainting haha

and tahnks you for the stock information ;) to do a good mattepainting and a good photomanip you need greats stocks ^^

see you

[94GOOGLE94]

and please where did you find the stock at 7:34

please could you give me the link of the beeautiful stock ? please

[wadehjb]

Unfortunately I don't have the exact link, but this it is available somewhere on the stock.xchng site under architecture I think

[94GOOGLE94]

and please sorry if i am boring xD the stock at 7:34

could you give Me the stock please !n

[94GOOGLE94]

no problem and thanks

because i take my stock from DA and Sxh and alos form other site like Cg texture witch is very good but you can't download more then 15 mb of stock in 24 hours pity yes ! you want more you sing up and you pay 45 dollar i thnik xD

heu do you have a deviantart ?

if yes give me the link please !

have a nice day

[wadehjb]

It's sad that so many stock sites want you to pay or don't give you any freedom to use it.

I am on deviantart. You can find me under the name devotion-graphics (sorry, youtube doesn't allow links in comments).

[94GOOGLE94]

and tell me please where did found this destruction stock ? they very cool In sxh ?

devinantart ?

thanks to answer to my question ;)

[wadehjb]

Most of the stock I use comes from "stock.xchng". You have to sign up, but all stock is free and there aren't too many restrictions.

I also have a friend who takes a lot of industrial and destruction photos, which helps.

Thank you for the kind comments. Glad you like the vid!

[94GOOGLE94]

haha very good man that's beautiful :=)

you teach me some greats thecniques in mattepainting !

thatkls huge video

[goldenjabba]

This = Epic. :D I wish I had photoshop, but I only have GIMP

[evolution699]

best ever !!!!

[WNxRadeon]

nice but what you mean with matte? ;)

[codyschuyler]

hey do you think you could make a vid of making a car with flat black matte paint?

[wackydude09]

Either way, (painting from scratch or using photos) you still have to have an incredible eye and artistic judgement.

I'm impressed.

Mad props!

[wadehjb]

Thanks man! I appreciate that. :)

[rebecca1199]

So I skipped through all 3 of these and I am still utterly confused. Is matte painting just painting over a photograph/a series of photographs you put together? I've been looking for the answer for some time, and I can't believe that's all it is. I honestly thought people begun from scratch with some amazing amount of talent, but it's just painting over some photographs? I don't think I want to be a matte painter anymore. :(

[wadehjb]

Yes, matte painting does rely heavily on photographs, but the idea is more about getting the job done than about artistic talent.

Painting from scratch is a LOT harder of course, but when you're working professionally you just need to get results as quick and as effectively as possible.

[rebecca1199]

Ah, I see. I just never knew - I think I will actually try it in the future and see what comes out of it, thankyou for the reply. :)

[o0OeftichisO0o]

Nicely done, but you should start using your keyboard for editing. It's much faster than slecting everything from the menu imo...

Thanks for the vid!

[wadehjb]

Yes, you are right, but I tried to use the pulldowns more in this video so everyone could see what I was doing.

Then again, I don't use the keyboard as much as I should anyway. :)

[herorocks]

nicely done

and yes shortcuts are the way to go ehj :) assuming you using a tablet aswell?

[wadehjb]

This one was done all with a mouse, but I've started using a tablet for my painting work more now. I couldn't live without it! :)

[softsofasoftsofa]

Once I started using a tablet, I never went back to using paper. My question about matte is copyrights, I'd like to use photos, even faces of public figures. However , these wouldn't be taken by me. What can you use from, say, a newspaper photo? The entire publication is copyrighted. If I made a composite from 10 pictures, would I just be in 10 times the trouble?

[wadehjb]

I always assumed that you could never use copyrighted photos in a commercial piece of work, but then I found out that a lot of professionals take images straight from Google. I can't say for certain, but I believe it's acceptable to use these images in your work as long as they're not distributed in their original form.

Personally, I prefer to use stock photos where there are no copyrights. It's safer. :)

[goldenjabba]

I agree with that

[meatflavour3]

this is realy unordinary. i like what u did with the water.

music is relaxing too.

[spiralmc]

copy and paste...copy and past.e....copy and paste.....kool but nothing too impressive

[nosh247]

you sir.... are an ignorant....

[kingskyline]

This is absolutely amazing. I've been working my ass off in photoshop to get to a point where I can make one of these. The only problem the mouse will make it really hard. 5*

[pintsallround]

I bow down to your skill. I thought I was getting the hang of photoshop, but now I realize I know next to nothing

[olkag]

Geez...big WOW and shocked of your ideas , you have got great stock images to do this.

Respect xD

[bilalital]

nice !! my bros name is matte hahaha

well done for the art

[kameldine]

super

[Bloodtransfusion]

Aaaaahhhh I DOnt Get It What Is Matte Painting and how too use it and which program?

[kotul1988]

matte painting is and technique for creating graphics,its not only static 2d but also a mix of quite everything,photomaniuplation,3­d,illustration,composing and animation,you can try doing it in any photoshop like program, try googling for it

[Sambucca]

Absolutely amazing! I never thought to use reference photos to that effect. The reflection in the water was particularly clever, though I couldn't quite follow exactly how you did it. You're obviously using lots of masks and layer transforms, but I'm so dumb I'd need a step by step guide.

The music was really nice as well, what is it?

[karmagreen]

amazing stuff

[Hawkrum]

Is Amazzing!

[kylecb]

Awesome stuff... saw this picture on digitalart, and then found these tutorials on your site. Keep up the great work!

[wadehjb]

If you're just watching casually I suggest skipping to the 3rd vid. The first two are just groundwork and are best followed in the context of the tutorial.