Tutorial Details
- Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Estimated Completion Time: 3 Hours
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Matte painting is a technique that filmmakers use to create backgrounds for scenes that can’t or don’t exist in real life. In the early days, matte paintings were actually painted onto glass. Today, modern filmmakers use digital applications such as Photoshop to produce the backdrops that they need. We have published many matte painting tutorials on this site meant for intermediate and advanced users. This tutorial is part of a series of tutorials that we will be publishing on this meant for those of you who may be relatively new to Photoshop or matte painting in general.
Today’s tutorial, Matte Painting 101: Lighting Fires will teach you how to extract and combine two images, use adjustment layers to make a nighttime scene, how to paint with masks, create highlights, and how to paint fires and torches. Let’s get started!
Tutorial Assets
The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial.
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Link for brushes ect doesn’t work. “Page not found”
Fixed. Sorry about that.
Nice result!
Nice result ! Just a thing, the fire on the gallery don’t look really real. But great tutorial you thought me something about lightning and shadow.
Awesome tut!
Awesome tutorial. I never realized that matter painting was used as much in film illustrations, landscape illustrations…I always thought the artists started from scratch, but I guess it makes perfect sense and saves a lot of time. Nice.
Inspirational! Learnt lots of ideas and methods. Thanx again.
Wow…learned something new in this tut. Thanx for sharing.
Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you for compiling this. I really learned some very helpful tips. Your work is appreciated!
thats what i cal reality. Thank you!
Hey,
Ed mentions studying the Photoshop file; but there doesn’t appear to be one.
Am I blind?
Great tute as always………….