Tutorial Details
- Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Estimated Completion Time: 3 Hours
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video tutorial series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start producing digital art in Photoshop. Digital Art for Beginners, by Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak will begin by teaching you how to draw in Photoshop. At the conclusion of this series you will know all you need to produce your own concept art and matte paintings in Photoshop.
Today’s tutorial Part 20: Apply Digital Painting Techniques to Photographs will demonstrate how to paint a giant viaduct over a small town in a beautiful valley. Let’s get started!
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This comes at just the right time as I’m trying to work through how to paint for a graphic novel … thanks!
The shadows are completely wrong, and the reflections seem to look unreal.
I agree with Barry
I don’t usually complain, but the shadows a pretty off. A simple look on the river shows the proper angle. The reflection should have a little angle too. Otherwise its a interesting and good tut. Minor adjustment to the shadow and reflection and Voilà.
For my personal taste, I would of put bigger arches, there are over 33 and less would of suffice for the bridge. Yet again that’s my taste.
Good job for the Tut Martin! keep it up
yes.
+1
He said they were off in the video.
This type of photo manipulation is very interesting, thanks for another great Tut.
Very, very bad.
this is wonderful photography.you apply digital techniques very good.A simple look on the river shows the proper angle. The reflection should have a little angle too. Otherwise its a interesting and good tut. Minor adjustment to the shadow and reflection and Voilà.i am also going to give some points for digital photography techniques.One thing that I have really enjoyed is taking a person and putting them in a new environment and then giving it an old masters look or some other treatment. To get away from the super smooth, almost plastic look some people come up with when smudging, try using assorted brushes. You can get really cool effects. very nice blog.
The shadows are completely wrong!! Check the building shadows!
Where the legs run into the ground is more
like an MC Escher piece of work, than reality.
Note the legs here- http://bit.ly/xx12ri
You are right – the one before the water leg shouldn´t be that far behind…
nice tutorial, the added bridge looks great!
Hi, nice tutorial, yes there are problems with it but they are workable and easily fixed, you need to match the values in the original photograph, as a tip id suggest on a separate layer paint a 18 per cent grey swatch. then convert the original photo to black and white, and find a 18 per cent grey or complete black.
Then using adjustment layers try and match your black, 18pc grey to the original on the photo, turn off swatch and using the clipping tool on the viaduct layer, voila your value will match the original plate.
I know you used a the eyedropper tool to find the colour on the plate, which is fine, however there is a danger of selecting a specular highlight, or errant value.
Your last task is to add grain to the viaduct matching the grain of the original plate. For artistic purposes a small light bloom on the right of the viaduct will sell the image better, at that height you will get light aberattion from the sun hitting the structure.
Great to see matte painting techniques being used, and I am looking forward to seeing more,
all the best
Rich
Lol, the first mistake is that the shadows are wrong dude.
I am a Graphic Designer and took me about 30 sec to find the bug and i can imagine a photograph he would find it in a sec :D
No good.