Task 2: Matte painting

Matte painting is to produce an image by painting or photo manipulating, working with traditional or digitally. The painting is a representation of a landscape for a filmmaker to create a illusion of environment which is not exist in the reality or too expensive to build or visit. 

Example of matte painting:

My work:

First, I choose two galaxy images as my footage and arrange it.

Then, I merge it by using layer mask tool.

After that, I put in the planet pictures that I want and arrange it.

Then set the mode of the planets to 'overlay' and 'screen'.

Then, put in the image of the space ship and the 'island'.

Then, apply layer mask on the space ship.

Next, put in the bubble and lens flare image.

Set the mode of those two image to 'soft light' and 'screen'.

Then, paint the shadow for the space ship and the planet under it.

Next, paint the highight for the space ship. 

Then, darken the area of the right hand side by painting it and add the highlight for the planet under the space ship. 

Add on the highlight for the 'island'.

Do the final adjustment.

Highlight for this work: