My Matte Painting Final premise...

This is the photo I'll be working on for my final. My hope is to give it a full transformation...

My London Tower Matte...

This is the finished product of my work. I used Adjustment Layers of Hue/Saturation, Brightness/Contrast, Levels and Curves to match the look for nighttime. I then added a Photo Filter and Defringe to finely tune it.

My Planet Matte...

This is the finished product of my work. I used Gradient Overlay to give the background a cosmic feel, and added three layers of clouds to reduce the blackness in the background. I used the burn tool and a color balance on Jupiter itself, and an outer glow on the shine coming off the planet, before adding a dulled and faded ray of light.

City Meteor Work in Progress...

Still working on this, hope to finish up soon.

My Finished Matte Cliff...

The finished product.

My Recent work in GD2...

I was able to complete this work in 2 hours 30 minutes, most of which was spent fine-tuning and checking for any errors I made. The work itself is made of four layers, and I used the erase tool, the quick select tool and the Layering Option to complete this.

My Work on Blending...

I used the eye dropper tool to match the correct colors for the blending. I then used the brush to mark the areas where the colors were the purest, leaving a small space where I could blend them together. I then used the eye dropper again to blend two colors, and used the air brush tool to fade the lines where the colors gradually changed.