Matte painting is a technique that filmmakers use to create backgrounds for scenes that can’t or don’t exist in real life. In the early days, matte paintings were actually painted onto glass. Today, modern filmmakers use digital applications such as Photoshop to produce the backdrops that they need.

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Here you’ll find links to 25 tutorials from various sources. Some of them are laid out step by step and others are case studies or more general overviews of the matte painting process. These adobe Photoshop matte paintings tutorials you’ll be able to create gorgeous artworks just as good as these below.

Create a Realistic Panoramic Matte Painting in Photoshop

Matte paintings are images commonly used in the film industry to create the illusion of an environment that would otherwise be too expensive or impossible to build. In this tutorial I will show you how to turn a single stock photo into a realistic panoramic scene.

Create a Snow Covered Mountain Town Matte Painting

Create a Scenic Matte Painting in Photoshop

Planet X Matte Painting in Photoshop

Matte Painting: Create A Distressed Surreal Cityscape

How to Create an Amazing Futuristic Matte Painting in Photoshop

This tutorial shows how to develop a futuristic fantasy theme out of a plain background using photo manipulation, photo montage techniques coupled with some painting inside Photoshop.