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Creating Golden Hour Atmosphere to Cityscape in Photoshop
1 students
Creating Golden Hour Atmosphere to Cityscape in Photoshop
Master Dramatic Atmosphere Lighting techniques for Games, Film and Animation using Photoshop
Created byRafael Falconi
Last updated 5/2025
English
What you'll learn
- How to create a golden hour atmosphere using Photoshop
- Boost creativity with photobashing and paintover techniques while keeping an organized progress
- Learn blending techniques towards a more photoreal look
- Gain insights about atmosphere, lighting, composition and color grading
- Complete a case study of a full project, step-by-step
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Course content
6 sections • 11 lectures • 4h 23m total length
Requirements
- Basic Photoshop knowledge
Description
If you love and want to learn or improve your Digital Matte Painting skills or enhance photo editing in Photoshop, this course is for you!
We´ll be exploring together how to create dramatic lighting atmosphere using golden hour photography to create a magical sunset at this cityscape.
This course showcases a simple Digital Matte Painting with a full voiceover demo in Photoshop, step by step.
In this tutorial you´ll revealing the main 2D techniques and mindset used in a daily life of a senior matte painter creating photoreal DMPs in Photoshop. We´ll go together from start to finish: brainstorming, researching and blocking to final touches.
Chapters:
1. Quick review of Fog
2. Further detail on Atmosphere
3. Finishing talk on low clouds
4. References and quick start
5. Sky replace and block BG Atmosphere
6. Creating Rays and adding light Glow
7. Compositing FG and BG Fog
8. Compositing MG Fog
9. Overall Adjustments
10. Overall Adjustments
11. Final Touches
You will learn Matte Painting techniques:⠀
How to create fog / mist using Photobashing techniques, in Photoshop
How to combine multiple photos
Create a magical hour atmosphere
How to enhance atmosphere with digital painting ⠀
How to work realistically with photos, painting and color correction
You will get:⠀
~5 hours of video material narrated over process up to 2.5x faster speed.
1 PSD
11 video clips in MP4 with English narration ⠀
Step-by-step workflow explanation focused on workflow mindset⠀
Level:
Basic Photoshop knowledge required
Who this course is for:
- Artists curious about photo editing, retouching and matte painting techniques
- Artists seeking to level up on mood/atmosphere and lighting editings in Photoshop