Matte Painting of Imaginary Worlds in Photoshop
Midground and Foreground Elements (Mountains) 2
A course by Reha Sakar , Visual Artist
About the video: Midground and Foreground Elements (Mountains) 2
Overview
“In this lesson, I will continue integrating my mountains. I will follow the same process with my foreground mountains as I did for the midground: retrieving my stock image, cropping it, creating a mask, and adding it to my main layer. Remember, if you don't create a mask, you will not be able to reintroduce the deleted elements of that photo later on. ”
In this video lesson Reha Sakar addresses the topic: Midground and Foreground Elements (Mountains) 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Matte Painting of Imaginary Worlds in Photoshop. Explore composition and lighting to create a photorealistic scene of a fantasy world using digital techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Midground and Foreground Elements (Mountains) I need to add the other layer, which will be this image. I do the same process. Again, I have some things here that I need to get rid of. I think I'll go to the same tool. Let's make a new layer, and the Clone Stamp is on All Layers, which is good. Clean these guys. I don't mind this extension as I need to blend this part later to my shoreline, so it's not a big deal. I don't want this house. I think the waterfalls are ok. I could even make them a bit more obvious. This is good to transfer. I'll merge this and select Preserve. Ctrl + E merges do...”
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Course summary for: Matte Painting of Imaginary Worlds in Photoshop
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Category
Photography & Video -
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Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Matte Painting, Photo Retouching, Photography Post-production, Photomontage
Reha Sakar
A course by Reha Sakar
Reha Sakar is a Turkish artist based in Vancouver, Canada. He first began painting as a young child with his mother and fellow artist. After studying astronomy at university and working as an insurance broker during the holidays, he soon realized that art was his true passion. From there, he took a course in Photoshop and discovered his talent for 3D art, which kick-started his creative career.
Since then, Reha has worked in digital media for more than 10 years. He has created promotional material for Call of Duty, Diablo III, The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Marvel’s Avengers, World War Z, Rango, Batman: The Dark Knight Rises, and more. He has also written articles on matte painting and worked with sports leagues including the NHL.
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