From the course: Digital Matte Painting: 1 Concept

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Finding the light side

Finding the light side

With your castle silhouette blocked in now, you want to set up a basic light and dark side on your castle. Since you worked at a 100% opacity on your silhouette, you can command or Ctrl click into the layer thumbnail preview for the Silhouette layer to load its selection. Press Cmd or Ctrl+H to hide the selection, but keep it active. If you're hiding a selection for the first time, Photoshop will ask you if you want to hide Photoshop or hide extras. Be sure to choose Hide Extras. Load the base color from you sillouite into the foreground color picker, and then choose a lighter version of that same color. With your brush selected, choose Overlay from the Mode menu at the top of your interface. Make sure that you have a soft, round brush selected, and Transfer turned on and set to Pen Pressure in your Brush panel. Now, paint into the silhouette to start finding the forms in your castle. You don't need to be accurate in this pass, you're just roughly defining the light side. Reusing the…

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