Traditionally, matte paintings were made by artists using paints or pastels on large sheets of glass for integrating with the live-action footage. The first known matte painting shot was made in 1907 by Norman Dawn (ASC). Later on Matte Painting revolutionized to an extreme level for which Avatar is an example. In this tutorial we are going to cover few basic concepts and tricks in matte painting using Adobe Photoshop and designing the great and wonder of world Tajmahal.

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In today's Photoshop CS5 video tutorial we'll demonstrates the bristle brushes, which simulate traditional paint brushes.

In this tutorial I will show you how to paint a proportioned female face from scratch... There are plenty of advanced ways to achieve this, but this tutorial will start with the absolute basics and move on to more advanced techniques, so even beginners can follow.

This tutorial will lead you through the steps of creating a childrens book illustration that can be edited and changed. This highly detailed painting tutorial will show you how to draw characters and apply finishing touches to the drawing.

In this Photoshop tutorial, we are going to learn how to create a realistic yet surreal photo-manipulation. This tutorial covers techniques such as correcting barrel distortion and blending images seamlessly by correcting the brightness/contrast.

Today we show you some photoshop techniques, how easy with few basics steps you can create awesome typography poster. With this technique you can create interesting flayer for dace club or you can use in advertisements. To create this typography poster we will use some paint splashes, custom fonts and few stocks from Desiantart and of course your knowledge.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to make better use of your pen tablet along with Photoshop's Brush Settings to achieve better results for an authentic watercolor style painting.

Find out how you can create beautiful portrait paintings easily from any photo. This tutorial will show you how to color, shade, paint hair, and more!

Learn how to paint this car part using Photoshop. This advanced tutorial will show you how to shade and create reflections to create a realistic metal intercooler. A PSD of the outline is included to get you started.

In this tutorial we will make a fast mate painting wallpaper. Matte painting is actually based on photo with different hand painted elements. So here I have some photos found in the internet.

Welcome in pure digital art tutorial. For this tutorial we definitely need a tablet - I will create on my Wacom G4, Photoshop - I will skip the line part which I really like to do in Painter. This tutorial will consist of 2 parts: in the first part we'll do a black and white sketch - the main thing here is to create good shapes and value, maybe to drop a little atmosphere; in the second part we'll begin to color and refine details of the sketch.

Learn how to create a surreal, distressed cityscape in Photoshop using Matte painting techniques.