20 Stunning Matte Painting Tutorials

What are Photoshop matte paintings?

Traditionally, matte painting was a hyperrealistic art effect used in photography and film. This allowed photographers and filmmakers to create cityscapes, armies, and machines by painting directly onto glass or film. The same idea has translated to Photoshop, in which we can build worlds and landscapes using digital photo manipulation.

Here are 20 of our favorite matte painting tutorials for Photoshop:

Create a Snow Covered, Coastal, Mountain Town Matte Painting

You will learn to make the best use of matte effect so that you can add mountains and different smart objects to the scene and then customize the picture using different features so that it seems to be just real. Matte painting effect can also be used to create unrealistic images or fantasy images. You will be able to introduce new layers, smart objects and then edit those smart objects to create a matte painting. These tutorials will walk you through the basic steps so that you can put your own creativity into the work later.

Use Photography to Create a Scenic Matte Painting From a Sketch in Photoshop

You have to multi-task as you will be using different features collectively to manage different things and put everything in a proper place.

Create a Mountain Fortress Using Matte Painting Techniques in Photoshop

Photoshop tools allow you to fully change the scene and customize it according to your desire in just a few lapses of time.

Create an epic fantasy digital matte painting

Learn the simple photoshop techniques to create unrealistic and beautiful images using the matte effect.

Basic Principles of Digital Matte Painting

A 3D effect can be introduced to the image using a technique called digital mapping or camera mapping.

Matte Painting 101: Meteor Impacts

You will learn to add a smoke in the air and crack different the building into different parts.

Matte Painting 101: Basic Extraction and Composition Techniques

You will be using basic matte effect techniques to extract a landscape image and compose it properly for after effects.

Matte Painting 101: Basic Destruction Techniques

You will learn to destroy or modify a particular smart object in the image and other similar destruction techniques.

Matte Painting 101: Lighting Fires

You will learn to light up fires using 2-3 photoshop tools. The matte effect can be used to introduce such art images and other such creations to the image.

Creating a Devastating Tidal Wave in Photoshop

You will learn to add a tidal wave image and then incorporate nicely and uniformly in the picture along with other smart objects.

Planet X Matte Painting in Photoshop

You can create fantasy and unrealistic scenes using simple matte photoshop tools

Matte Painting Tutorial

You will combine and customize each image separately to create an colorful and unrealistic manipulation.

Matte Painting: Making of Barbarossa

You can create everything that is imaginable and unrealistic using the tools essential for introducing matte effect to the picture.

Matte Painting Tutorial of Tajmahal Using Photoshop

You can create or customize taj mahal using matte painting effect and dive into the adventurous trip of editing and modifying such pictures.

Making of Urban

Creating and introducing a particular weather effect, introuding rain into the image and doing such different things will take your photoshop experience to the next level.

Matte Painting: Cleopatra Queen of Egypt

You will learn to remove people from the image, customizing the ground surface, introducing 3D smart objects into the image and similar techniques that you will also learn in other photoshop tutorials.

Create a Post-Apocalyptic Matte Painting

You will learn to create a hole in the upper roof and intorduce a light source there.

Create a Realistic Panoramic Matte Painting in Photoshop

You will work on the small details of the image so as to introduce a panaromic effect to the whole picture.

Create a Fantasy City Using Architectural Photographs

Use x-ray techniques in Photoshop to show naked skin through clothing

Do those new naked body scanners have you freaked out at the airports? As far as the TSA is concerned, those x-ray machines are here to stay, but you might as well take comfort in knowing that airport security guards aren't the only ones looking at your private parts. Practically anyone with a computer can manage to see through your clothes, and it's all thanks to a little program called Photoshop. Thanks, Adobe. With a few tweaks using the tools in Photoshop, you can see those boobs in no time, male or female. The video is in German, but it's not hard to figure our what's going on, especially if you're familiar with Photoshop. First, create a few duplicate layers, then get a handle on some of these tools to make the naked body through the clothes: * Auswahl erstellen (Create Selection) * Tonwertspreizung (Input Levels) * Belichtung (Exposure) You can also do this see-through clothing effect in free design programs, such as GIMP .

40 latest creative photoshop text effects

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Royal 3D Text Effect in Photoshop CS6

Just make sure to check the 3D settings under Edit -> Preferences -> Performance, and Edit -> Preferences -> 3D. Default values should work fine, but if anything seems to be not working properly you can always check those settings. Step 1 - Create a new 1600 x 1200 px document and Fill the Background with black. Create the text in white using the font Dunkin Sans. The font size is 400 pt and the text is better written in All Caps (if you’re not using only numbers). Step 2 - With the text layer selected, go to 3D -> New Extrusion from Selected Layer. This will instantly convert the text layer into a 3D layer. All the 3D scene elements can be found in the 3D panel (Window -> 3D). Click the main mesh name to edit its settings. - The 3D Mesh settings and attributes can be accessed and modified through the Properties panel (Window -> Properties). If you scroll down the Properties panel you’ll find the Character Panel button, which ...

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