Matting with PS 6 and Photos

[Gentle]

Actually, I come from the 3D-sector. I work with Cinema 4D.
As I came to this site,I was fascinated by many works. So I tried my own luck on Matte Painting.

I use photos which I compose in PS 6 (oh man, 6 is rather poor of features, but it's working ;) ). I work very much with the copy brush, color correction, Layers and Masks and my eye.



Hope you like the works, to be continued - this will be a thread where I collect my photodrawings, if that's okay by the forum rules...?
I'm new, give me advices and critique, I'll brave them :)




My first Matte painting ever, it was a reference for a mural.

I used these photos (some more which I couldn't find):

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/767/ohnetitel17dk.th.jpg (http://img510.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ohnetitel17dk.jpg)


that's my result:

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/9336/mattepainting6co.jpg



Second matte. It was also a reference for a mural.

I used these photos (some more which I couldn't find):

http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/1515/zusammen9gc.th.jpg (http://img357.imageshack.us/my.php?image=zusammen9gc.jpg)


that's my result:

http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/6250/seesturm18ko.jpg





My third Matte Painting. It's for a learning contest at Global-Artists (http://www.global-artists.net). Rainforest in Venezuela, on the left side you see the angel falls, the highest waterfall in the world (about 1km high).

I used these photos:

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/622/verwendetebilder0vi.th.jpg (http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=verwendetebilder0vi.jpg)


that's my result:

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/8265/wip2matte2ws.jpg




Hope you like them.

Greetings from Vienna,
Tobias Deml
aka
Gentle

[zoki]

hi
i think your results are very good , but now i would like to see some architecture in or some other stuff thats your addition to the scene color changes , rivers.....
z

[Gentle]

There'll be an old plane and an alien city in the last one... in 3D :)