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Designers' List - Great resources and websites for designers. 25 Excellent Photoshop Tutorials from 2010. Tut Cityscape. Intro Matte painting plays a major role in today’s films. The first known matte painting shot was made in 1907 by Norman Dawn (ASC), you can see how the traditional matte painting evolved from “The Wizard Of Oz” to the ground breaking “Avatar”. In this tutorial I’m going to show you some techniques in matte painting to create a distressed surreal cityscape. Notes This tutorial is for Photoshop users with intermediate to advanced skillsAll the keyboard shortcuts are mentioned within ( ) Resources If you are following along, you’ll need to grab the following resources.

Preview Before we begin, check out a quick preview of what we will be creating. Step 1 Just like every construction needs a blue print, so do matte paintings. Step 2 I found this pic which is a perfect fit for the blue print. Step 3 In this painting we could do without any green foliage, so turn the plants in the foreground into pigmentless plants. Step 4 This step requires some decision making on your part.

Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8. How To Create An Impressive Background In Photoshop. Photoshop tutorial on dispersion effect. Little People - a tiny street art project. 50 Useful Poster Designing Tutorials. 20 Matte Painting Tutorials. Matte paintings are used to create virtual sets and digital back lots. They can be used to create entire sets, or to extend portions of an existing set. Traditional matte painting is done optically by painting on top of a piece of glass to be composites with the original footage.

This trick is nearly as old as film itself. The first matte painting was made in 1907 by Norman A. Dawn, who painted for the movie Missions of California. Originally, matte paintings were painted on glass plates, also known as glass hot. Two plates of glass were set up parallel to each other at a certain distance. In a digital environment, matte paintings can also be done in a 3-D environment, allowing for 3-D camera movements. You must have gone through number of Photoshop tutorials on different techniques used like lightning, Photo retouching, Photo effects etc but there are very few posts which showcase techniques to be used in creating matte effects in Photoshop. Advertisement Pitch Tutorial Link For Pitch. 15 Places To Download Free High Quality Stock Photos. There are many free stock photography sites. I set out to find as many good ones as I could. I found 15 good, solid resources out there.

Royalty Free does not mean the images are free; it means that you don’t need to pay the photographer a royalty each time you use the image. These sites offer free royalty-free images. Today I am going to share 15 websites where you can download free stock photos. You can easily get a quality and beautiful wallpaper for your desktop or simply an illustration for your blog. Free stock nature photography. This site is a community for travel photographers. This is a huge resource of over3 million photos! This site provides tons of high quality and high resolution free stock photos. The photos on Imagebase are free to use, and are licensed under a Creative Commons license. Stockvault is a very classy, modern site with thousands of images and some Photoshop tutorials. Morguefile is a completely free source for stock photos.

All the photos are free to use. 50 Free Photoshop Brush Sets Everyone Should Have.