You’ll soon become familiar with terms such as ‘garbage matte’, and how learning the basics of composition can give your painting a real professional edge.

And here are just some of the other cool things you’ll learn in this video course

• How to combine different reference photos as a basis for your alien environment
• How to arrange your composition for maximum impact
• How to create realistic skies and planets, strange structures, and eerie atmospheric effects
• How to use the Pen and Warp Tools in Photoshop to quickly transform parts of your painting
• Professional matte painting skills that you can use whatever you’re working on