Applying Matte Painting Techniques to Image Editing for the Web in Photoshop
Throughout these lessons, we'll look at matte painting techniques that can be applied to web design. Software required: Photoshop CS3.
What you'll learn
Throughout these lessons, we'll look at matte painting techniques that can be applied to web design. In this tutorial, we'll talk about poor quality imagery, how to fix images, and how to work around problematic graphics that can cause problems for even the most seasoned web veteran. By the end of this tutorial you'll be able to work faster, smarter, and output images that look much better than anticipated. Software required: Photoshop CS3.
Table of contents
- Using Post Haste to Set up Project Files 3m
- Flipping the Layout of the Photoshop User Interface 3m
- Cleaning up Artifacts from Low-quality Web Images 8m
- Removing Noise Before Scaling Images 5m
- Removing Elements from Backgrounds 7m
- Editing Small Logos 9m
- Editing Elements and Removing Selection Halos 6m
- Using the Difference Layer Mode to Align Images 8m
- Using the Difference Layer Mode to Align Screenshots 7m
- Comparing Layer Modes and Their Variations 9m
- Utilizing Filters and Layers to Reduce File Size 8m
- Removing Color Aberration 4m
- Discovering the Importance of Image Composition 8m
- Saving Images in Tiff Format 2m
About the author
Matthew Scheuerman is an American entrepreneur, designer, artist, and inventor. He has a strong focus in web design and concept art for film and video games. Matthew currently works as a full-time web designer at a Fortune 500 company, but also assists freelance clients in their endeavors through web design, branding, marketing, concept art, and matte painting. He is also the creator of Concept-Art-Jobs.com, a feed aggregator of concept art related jobs for the entertainment industry. Matthew cu... more