Join David Mattingly for an in-depth discussion in this video Removing hard shadows, part of Digital Matte Painting: Changing a Scene From Summer to Winter.
I still need to get rid of these hard shadows on the side of the building, or at…least soften them up so it doesn't look like hard bright sunshine.…I'll sample the color from the side of the building and then open up my Brush…panel and select a soft brush.…In this case I want a soft brush because I want to blend the shadow and…light sides together.…I plan to take this project from a summertime version to a wintertime version…and then to dusk, and these hard shadows would be a dead giveaway that the scene…was shot in hard sunlight. That looks better.…
I still need to completely paint out these flowers up top.…I'm going to grab a dark brown color off the side of the chalet.…Right here I can be really loose.…To continuously vary the color while using the Brush tool, press the Option or…Alt key while clicking in the plate to bring up the color picker on the fly, and…select different colors right off the plate.…This will keep the painted areas lively, not going dead like a single solid color will.…
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7/3/2012- Making precise selections using the Color Range command
- Controlling reference material through layer masks
- Creating custom brushes
- Painting snow, icicles, and trees
- Painting through a high-contrast matte
- Replacing the sky in an image
- Animating smoke and falling snow
- Reformatting and rendering a scene in After Effects
Skill Level Intermediate
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Welcome
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Introduction1m 20s
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Using the exercise files1m 22s
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1. Revising the Plate
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Extracting the foothills5m 58s
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Extracting the mountains8m 10s
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2. Painting Over the Plate
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Creating a custom brush2m 58s
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Adding form to the foothills3m 31s
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Adding snow to the rooftops2m 58s
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Removing hard shadows3m 50s
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3. Replacing the Sky
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Extracting clouds5m 15s
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4. Creating a Dusk Version of the Scene
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Adding a blue Multiply layer2m 56s
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Lighting windows3m 28s
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Adding an orange glow3m 31s
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5. Animating Your Scene in After Effects
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Animating the scene2m 35s
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Adding snow using CC Snow4m 57s
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