For this matte painting I had to turn this building into a night shop. First I had to remove all of the people and the tent to get a clean slate. I did this by using the spot healing brush tool. Then to build up texture back up i used the healing brush tool and cloning stamp. My next approach was to replace the sky with a different background. To do this I used the channels layers and decided to use the blue channel to remove the sky background. After that I started to use adjustment layers on the building, grass, and trees to increase the image quality for night time. My last adjustment layer was the photo filter were i added a underwater filter. Also I used a solid color adjustment layer to paint some color on the trees. The last touch I put on the building background was a filter high pass. Now my focus was on the sky background. I altered the background using levels, hue/saturation, and color balance and other adjustments. I also decided to copy the moon and overlayed it and added an outerglow. The final step I did was add a gaussian blur to the moon for a halo effect.
This is a cliff matte mde from three different images. The man standing on the rock is seperate from the back ground. By using refined selection tools and quick mask I managed to isolate the man on the rock I wanted. I also used the refine edge to get a better selection. After placing the man standing on the rock where I wanted in the new background I started to apply adjustment layers to it. I managed to get a dark shadow on the man. Finally I inserted a new sky in with a layer mask. This
