From the course: Matte Painting: Environments for Film
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Key art: Paint setup
From the course: Matte Painting: Environments for Film
Key art: Paint setup
- [Instructor] Okay, and now for my favorite part of matte painting, the painting part. Let's open up the rendered images that we've created from Clarice. You can do that in your exercise files mdr for render directory. And projection layers is where I've saved them, and there's a whole bunch. Let's start by bringing in the bg layers, and select them all and open. Now, this will open up a Photoshop file for each layer. Moving forward, we want to import them as a stack, but this is another way to open them. Now, you'll notice I've rendered four images altogether. I'm in the ao, which is the ambient occlusion arbitrary output variable. Beauty, which contains the specular and general texture. Lighting pass, which just gives me an alpha for the light, of the key in this case. And then a sand and rock alpha. So, in order to bring them together, you can press V. And that will change your tool settings to the move tool. And you can press shift. And as you do, click and drag into the next…
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