This
tutorial is actually a "making of"
where I explain how I proceeded to achieve
this matte painting.
I use a Wacom Intuos² A4 board, if you
don't have any graphic board this is going
to be hard but not impossible.
At each step of the matte painting, useless
to remind you to create a new layer so that
the work will be easier and mistakes avoided
!
First
of all, find a good res picture. I chose
to use a picture of a house I found on
the web. You can find very nice pics for
free, just look around !
The
first step is to isolate the house by
putting it on a separate layer and by
erasing the rest.
In this example I used the polygonal
lasso tool for the house, and a soft
eraser for the bushes.
Now
you need a new background. You can either
find a good pic, either paint one yourself.
I chose the former because it is less
time consuming, and the result is far
better than what I would have gotten
had I painted a background myself. I
found this image on the web, unfortunately
I do not remember the site I got it
from.
Put
the sky behind the house (by putting the
sky layer under the house layer), and
apply a little perspective effect to give
more depth to the sky, make it less flat.
Here the house picture was taken from
a low angle, which makes our work easier.
