Integrating Photographs into Paintings in Photoshop
When it comes to creating believable environment concepts that seamlessly integrate photographs and painting, a lot of artists struggle with how to blend the two. Software required: Photoshop CC v14.0.
What you'll learn
When it comes to creating believable environment concepts that seamlessly integrate photographs and painting, a lot of artists struggle with how to blend the two. For this reason, this tutorial will take color out of the equation and allow you to focus on simple black and white values as we weave our final scene together. To start out, we will begin to snatch pieces of photographs that are appealing and can be used for our scene. We will learn why these photographs were selected and how we can use them to block in the land masses and some of the architectural elements for our concept. From here we will begin painting to blend things together. We'll add in some rock structures as well as modify some of the architecture. Along the way, you'll pick up some valuable tips for using adjustment layers to modify values and for adding details to our painting that will distract a viewers eye and lead it through the composition. After finishing this course, you will have learned some great tools and techniques for blending photographs seamlessly into your paintings. Software required: Photoshop CC v14.0.
Table of contents
- Bringing in Major Land Masses 12m
- Painting Our Body of Water 8m
- Blocking in Background Rock Formations 13m
- Bringing in Architectural Structures 12m
- Manipulating Architectural Structures 11m
- Fitting Our Castle to the Island 12m
- Adjusting Values and Contrast for Elements in Our Scene 15m
- Painting Over Architecture 14m
- Painting in Additional Architecture 13m
- Painting Trees and Foliage 13m
- Adding Subtle Detail to Background Areas 13m
- Building Highway Structures 13m
- Building Additional Structures 12m
- Reinforcing Lighting on the City 13m
- Final Details and Value Adjustments 13m
About the author
Eddie began teaching creative professionals over ten years ago for Digital Tutors. In 2014 Digital Tutors was acquired by Pluralsight and he continued his focus on creating high quality training for artists in both the film and games industries. With a background in graphic design and illustration Eddie has always been focused on visual appeal. This can be seen through his courses in which he shares secrets for achieving production level quality for concept art, illustrations, textures, mater... more