Absolute Beginners Guide To Matte Painting

In this tutorial, I will explain how I create my own custom brushes and how I use them in order to save an incredible amount of time for painting trees, bushes and grasses.

This series of video tutorials covers what masks are, why they're the center of all good selections, and how to use them like a pro. Specifically: the mask palette; FG/BG swapping; Brush controls; varying edge blur; how to pipe a channel into a mask; and selecting via color correction tools.

Discover the way to the finest color mixes by understanding the natural color-scheme selection and get introduced to the basics of the lights & shadows.

Learn how Hatice Bayramoglu created this beautiful painting in Photoshop. She will show you her process from sketching to shading using her own technique.

Blending is the essential skill for every photo manipulator and it´s one of the first things to learn. Without proper blending your images won't look believable. There are several ways how to blend images together. In this article I'd like to cover basic techniques which are essential for every manipulation.

In this tutorial you will learn about setting up your Wacom tablet properties in Photoshop. Although the Tablet covered is the Intuos4 there is information that is still useful and relative to the Intuos3 tablet.

Matte painting is a technique that filmmakers use to create backgrounds for scenes that can't or don't exist in real life.

This video tutorial shows you the techniques that he uses when painting Fire and Magic effects in photoshop