Discover how to create stunning photo manipulations in Photoshop. In this course, you'll learn everything from photographing models to creating dark conceptual artworks. If you enjoy our photo manipulation tutorials, you will absolutely love this course.
What you'll be creating
You'll be creating a landscape matte painting. I have used Photoshop CC 2014 for this tutorial but you can follow it with Photoshop CS3 or newer version.
Tutorial Resources
- Bay - Pixabay
- Sky - Morguefile
- Waterfall - Pixabay
- FisherMan - Freeimages
- Foliage Packs - Designer Candies
- Birds Brushes - CandyMax Stock
Step 1
Start by creating a new Photoshop document by selecting File > New then set the setting as shown in the image below or you can choose your own settings.
Step 2
Now place the bay image to main document by selecting File > Place. While placing it keep some space from top of the document as you can see the results in the image below.
Step 3
Add a layer mask to the bay layer by clicking on the second button of layer panel at right hand side bottom corner. Now hide the selected part of bay layer by painting with soft round black brush on the layer mask of bay layer.
Step 4
Place the sky image below the bay layer.
Step 5
Add a Curves Adjustment layer to the sky by simply clicking on the third button of layer panel (see the image below). Set the setting as shown in the image below.
Step 6
To add some yellow color tone to the sky I added Photo Filter and Selective Color adjustment layer to the sky. Here are values for both adjustment layer.
Step 7
Head back to the bay layer then add a Hue/Saturation and Photo Filter adjustment to the bay layer as clipping mask (see the image below for clipping mask button). Using clipping mask these adjustment layer only effect the bay layer not the sky layer that's why we use clipping mask so it will only apply the effects on that layer in which we want to not the rest of the layers. Set the setting as shown in the image below.
Step 8
Add a Exposure adjustment layer to the bay layer. Set the setting as shown in the image below.
Step 9
Now add a Color Balance adjustment layer to entire scene (don't clip it). Set the setting as shown in the image below.
Step 10
Add Brightness/Contrast and Gradient Map adjustment layer to the entire scene. Set the setting as shown in the image below. Also, change the blend mode of Gradient Map adjustment layer to Color Dodge and reduce the opacity to 33%.
14 comments on “How to Manipulate a Beautiful Sunset Matte Painting in Photoshop”
Very nice -I follow - see the result in - =)
http://imageshack.com/a/img907/8533/WnYZf8.jpg
and
http://imageshack.com/a/img905/3796/QeEjCs.jpg
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wow nice tute i dont know that ps6 is capable of doing those
such great comments everyone :p
I agree :/
Oh good
I would say: 'Is every adjustment layer necessary? I don't think so. But it was all fun to do your tutorial en I have learned a lot. Thanks again, Hans K.
thx..,,,keep helping the bigners..,,
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очень красивый урок!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice tutorial
As always, you exceed yourself Bunty. Great job!! Like!
Wow! Amazing. I'll work follow of this tut
Awesome ?