Tuts+ Premium - Create a Desert Oasis in Photoshop Bobby Myers

If you want to learn how to composite photos together to produce a realistic scene in Photoshop, matte

paintings are a great place to start. Matte paintings often involve the combination of several photos to

produce an environment that could not or does not exist in real life. This means that in order to produce a

photo realistic scene, youll need to know how to cleanly extract specific pieces of photography and how to

place those elements to produce the exact look you are going for. In this tutorial, we will show you how to

combine photo manipulation and digital painting techniques to create a desert oasis in Photoshop. Lets get

started!