Create a Devastating Tidal Wave in Photoshop
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Create a Devastating Tidal Wave in Photoshop

on Jul 15th 2011 with 77 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 3 Hours

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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.

In today’s tutorial, Matte Painting 101: Create a Devastating Tidal Wave in Photoshop we will give New York City a break and will destroy London with a devastating tidal wave. Let’s get started!

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I was born in Mexico City, worked and studied photography at Eastman Kodak while training in minilab management and traditional darkroom techniques. Now I am steadily growing in the freelance world on matte painting, digital art/illustration and even some 3d modeling.  

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  • http://christopherdesigner.blogspot.com Christopher

    10 out of 10 for this, a very descriptive tutorial and a very professional outcome!

  • Migo

    the video is bad and i can not understand any thing

    • jon

      you are bad

  • http://Na Tanyo

    Migo the video is absolutely good and interesting and you can’t understand nothing because you don’t have a basics PS knowledge.

  • http://ww.facebook.com/cleverlessphotoshopt cleverless

    you talk to much in the beginning :D

  • Pavan Kunala

    Amazing tutorial!! Learned a lot of new techniques. Thanks for sharing.

  • Rafa

    Hi boy this tutorial is very good!!!Amazing…congratulations!

  • Martin

    Amazingly detailed, with a really professional result. Excellent tutorial.

  • http://www.dreamygallery.net Laura

    Impressive…! Amazing !

  • http://www.keejostudio.com Jens

    I couldn’t pass by without leaving this : http://www.keejostudio.com/#/tower-bridge/3929357

    In a different style, but…. a coincidence or that a common theme ?

    The precision and quality of your work is fantastic !
    Jens

  • ddrmama

    I can´t understand the part that you use the brush to create the top of the waves… I don´t know how to setup the brush to do it. Could you help me please?

    In any case… great tutorial and great result!

    Congratulations!

  • http://zulhfreelancer.com Zulhilmi Zainudin

    Great tutorial. I loved your masking style! ;)

  • http://www.creativelite.com Jabeer

    Very informative tutorial. I am going to try this now :-)

  • Rob

    At the start of the first masking of the wave what brush number / style is used? what mask is applied?

  • http://www.majnooncomputer.com/ majnooncomputer

    that’s amazing
    thx :)

  • Shane

    WOW…… I have to say, I just didn’t see it working at the start, but it really gelled at the end… good techniques! Thumbs up!!!!!!!!!!

  • SpencerT

    Good tutorial, but MAN that mouth noise is driving me insane…

    - Spencer

  • jon

    good,good, good, very good

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