Create a Devastating Tidal Wave in Photoshop
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.
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!
Tutorial Assets
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10 out of 10 for this, a very descriptive tutorial and a very professional outcome!
the video is bad and i can not understand any thing
Migo the video is absolutely good and interesting and you can’t understand nothing because you don’t have a basics PS knowledge.
you talk to much in the beginning :D
Amazing tutorial!! Learned a lot of new techniques. Thanks for sharing.
Hi boy this tutorial is very good!!!Amazing…congratulations!
Amazingly detailed, with a really professional result. Excellent tutorial.
Impressive…! Amazing !
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
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!
Great tutorial. I loved your masking style! ;)
Very informative tutorial. I am going to try this now :-)