Overpaint of the practice picture I set my fiancé on to learn Photoshop, and maybe even some art along the way. We started with a value sketch I made. Then bashed in plenty of photos as a base; rocks, ground, technical equipment like engines, rails, stairs, gas tanks and whatnot. Most of which I got from ImagineFX and CGtextures.com. By then I realized it takes a beginner much, much longer than me to achieve the same results, and their heads start spinning from the myriad of shortcuts, tools, adjustment layers and everything - even if I explained only what I considered the necessities - and the picture was left alone for a while. Then I pitied the poor thing and decided to do an overpaint. I wanted to improve the composition and contrast. Warming up the colours allowed for better contrast between the shadowed and lit areas, and larger shapes de-cluttered the left-hand structures. Stronger aerial perspective was introduced. I worked out some shapes in the artificial str...
