Matte Painting: Creating Photorealistic Worlds
A course by Carles Marsal , Graphic Designer and Visual Artist
Learn to create incredible landscapes with Photoshop
Learn to create incredible landscapes with Photoshop
In this course, Carles Marsal teaches you his own technique for creating photorealistic worlds using the fundamentals of matte painting. Working from an initial sketch, compose a realistic scene from photographs, and incorporate each element using Brushes and proper lighting. Unleash your creativity and get astounding results!
Matte painting is a digital technique that allows the artist to create any scene imaginable by perfectly combining photographs and illustrations to achieve hyperrealistic results with astonishing detail. It can be used at a professional level across a range of fields including publishing, advertising, film, and video games.
This course can be taken alongside Carles' other course Secrets of Photomontage and Creative Retouching, where you can take your professional composition, retouching, and photographic lighting techniques a step further.
What will you learn in this online course?
14 lessons & 9 downloads
- 99% positive reviews (1.4K)
- 32,299 students
- 14 lessons (3h 4m)
- 9 additional resources (3 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish, English
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
Recommended software for this course
Adobe PhotoshopWhat is this course's project?
Compose a matte painting and create your own imaginary world.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
Illustrators, retouchers, digital artists, matte painters, conceptual artists, photographers, graphic designers, and any creative mind interested in photorealistic landscapes.
Requirements and materials
Basic notions of Photoshop, like working with Layers, selection tools, Masks, and Brushes, are necessary for this course, as well as Adobe Photoshop and a graphics tablet. No drawing skills are required.
Reviews
A course by Carles Marsal
Carles Marsal is a graphic designer and visual artist who works with a wide variety of national and international clients on graphic design, retouching, and illustration projects. He also teaches courses and seminars as an Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor of Photoshop, as well as conferences as an Adobe Influencer.
His projects have been featured in publications like Photoshop Magazine, Belio Magazine, Abduzeedo, Kuvva, Desktopography, and at events such Barcelona Creative, Blanc Festival, and Adobe Creative Days.
Carles has said "I am someone who loves what they do, so all my skills, years' of experience, and infinite passion go into each project, without exception, as a new and exciting challenge."
Content
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U1
I'm Carles, a pleasure!
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Nice to be your teacher!
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Inspirational influences
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U2
Ingredients for a new world
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The sketch
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Compilation of images
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U3
Raising the foundations
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Setting up the scene
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Setting up scene II
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Integration of the set
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U4
The secret is in the lighting and atmosphere
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Working the shadows
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Incorporating the lights
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Incorporating lights II
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Correcting the color
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General atmosphere
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U5
I made it, I'm God!
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Details and finishes
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Master touches
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FP
Final project
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Matte Painting: creating photorealistic worlds
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What to expect from a Domestika course
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Learn at your own pace
Enjoy learning from home without a set schedule and with an easy-to-follow method. You set your own pace.
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Learn from the best professionals
Learn valuable methods and techniques explained by top experts in the creative sector.
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Meet expert teachers
Each expert teaches what they do best, with clear guidelines, true passion, and professional insight in every lesson.
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Certificates
PlusIf you're a Plus member, get a custom certificate signed by your teacher for every course. Share it on your portfolio, social media, or wherever you like.
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Get front-row seats
Videos of the highest quality, so you don't miss a single detail. With unlimited access, you can watch them as many times as you need to perfect your technique.
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Share knowledge and ideas
Ask questions, request feedback, or offer solutions. Share your learning experience with other students in the community who are as passionate about creativity as you are.
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Connect with a global creative community
The community is home to millions of people from around the world who are curious and passionate about exploring and expressing their creativity.
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FAQs
Domestika's courses are online classes that provide you with the tools and skills you need to complete a specific project. Every step of the project combines video lessons with complementary instructional material, so you can learn by doing. Domestika's courses also allow you to share your own projects with the teacher and with other students, creating a dynamic course community.
All courses are 100% online, so once they're published, courses start and finish whenever you want. You set the pace of the class. You can go back to review what interests you most and skip what you already know, ask questions, answer questions, share your projects, and more.
The courses are divided into different units. Each one includes lessons, informational text, tasks, and practice exercises to help you carry out your project step by step, with additional complementary resources and downloads. You'll also have access to an exclusive forum where you can interact with the teacher and with other students, as well as share your work and your course project, creating a community around the course.
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miguelmoncloaarchitect
Muy buen curso, de verdad. El tutor muestra un workflow bastante claro y efectivo.
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fs622471
¡Hola! Es un muy buen curso, el docente explica muy claramente y lo hace desde una manera muy sencilla y entendible. Recomiendo!!!.
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bozenkasobczyk1999
Another great course by the author!
eva731
Un gran curso como todos los de Carles, me encantó. El es un gran profesor y explica muy bien. Gracias.
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andressonfacundo09
Muito Bom o curso ... super didático... técnicas super avançadas
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