From the course: Matte Painting: Environments for Film
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Key art: Painting the sky
From the course: Matte Painting: Environments for Film
Key art: Painting the sky
- [Instructor] So, another way to do the sky, and I'm going to show you a little trick here, you can press M. If that M is the wrong marquee tool, then press shift+m, and try it again. So that will flip between these options here, shift clicking. And let's select this part of the sky. And the reason why I'm doing that is because sometimes key art can have a darkening vignette around the borders, and we don't necessarily want to sample those colors or values. So let's just crop it a little bit, and delete that mask by clicking on it, right clicking, delete mask. And with that marquee still selected, because it won't go away, click the quick mask tool. All right, now, to get an even more accurate sky, you can collapse all of these images, layers together, I should say, and then press B and start painting. So increase your brush size, and I do that with the square brackets up and down, if you will, left and right. And start sampling. So you can press that alt key to sample a color. And…
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