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Master Relighting Skills - Dragon Paintover
4 students
Created byRafael Falconi
Last updated 5/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • How to create a paintover to relight a dragon using Photoshop
  • How to explore the power of digital painting, adjusment layers and blending modes
  • Improve lighting and shading skills
  • Complete a case study of a full project, step-by-step

Course content

1 section6 lectures1h 39m total length
  • Blocking23:26
  • Progress14:25
  • Refining22:03
  • Final Effects24:36
  • Actions3:29
  • Blend if11:37

Requirements

  • Basic Photoshop knowledge

Description

        If you love and want to learn or improve your Digital Painting skills, Relighting techniques or enhance Photo Editing in Photoshop, this course is for you! 

       We´ll be exploring together how to create a dramatic lighting at this awesome dragon render with diffuse lighting and paintover light and shade to create a fantasy mood to it.

       This course showcases a simple process of one paintover 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 digital artist creating realistic fantasy edits in Photoshop. We´ll go together from start to finish: basic to final touches.


        You will learn Digital Painting and Illustration techniques:⠀


  • Step by step progress from initial blocking to refinements

  • "Re-lighting" by painting over light, shadow, reflection and occlusion passes

  • How to merge seamlessly a 3D render from stock image to the Background

  • Create a fantastic feel to the dragon

  • Understand basics of "blend if", creating actions and final effects (like glow and high pass)

  • How to work realistically with painting and color correction


    You will get:⠀


  • ~90 minutes of video material narrated over process up to 2x faster speed.

  • 1 PSD file

  • 6 video clips in MP4 with English narration ⠀

        Level:


  • Basic Photoshop knowledge required

Who this course is for:

  • Artists curious about digital painting, photo editing, retouching and illustration techniques