Creating an Abandoned City Scene in Photoshop
When it comes to creating beautiful, believable environmental photo-manipulations, many artists either don't know where to begin or simply don't understand how atmosphere affects their scene. Software required: Photoshop CS6.
What you'll learn
When it comes to creating beautiful, believable environmental photo-manipulations, many artists either don't know where to begin or simply don't understand how atmosphere affects their scene. In this Photoshop tutorial, we will walk step by step through creating an abandoned city scene and learn not just how to perform each task in Photoshop, but why each step is important. We will be using a workflow that allows for both the integration of multiple images into our composition as well as hand painting other elements. While many of the techniques we will look at are specific to this project, you can still apply them in different forms to your own work. After completing this tutorial, you will be well equipped to begin creating your own environmental photo-manipulations utilizing the new techniques you've learned here. Software required: Photoshop CS6.
Table of contents
- Image Preparation and Planning 12m
- Sky Removal and Skyline Improvement 14m
- Correcting Lens Distortion and Adding Big Damage to the Building 13m
- Adding Base Decay Textures to the Building 13m
- Painting Overgrown Foliage on the Building 12m
- Painting Additional Dirt, Decay and Damage on the Building 14m
- Adding a Wrecked Automobile to Our Scene 14m
- Populating the Mid-ground of the Image with Foliage 16m
- Painting the Base for a Body of Water 11m
- Blending the Colors of Our Water Together 11m
- Blending and Blurring the Mid-ground Foliage 10m
- Adding Spot Vegetation to the Mid-ground 12m
- Blending the Road Signs into Our Image 12m
- General Color Correction 9m
- Integrating the Buildings into Our Scene 11m
- Adding Damage to the Skyline Buildings 10m
- Atmosphere, Lighting and Final Touches 6m
About the author
Eddie began teaching creative professionals over ten years ago for Digital Tutors. In 2014 Digital Tutors was acquired by Pluralsight and he continued his focus on creating high quality training for artists in both the film and games industries. With a background in graphic design and illustration Eddie has always been focused on visual appeal. This can be seen through his courses in which he shares secrets for achieving production level quality for concept art, illustrations, textures, mater... more