The Digital Matte Painting Handbook

Relighting

You’re almost finished! There are still some areas that require manual relighting. For instance, the clock tower is lit from below, but the shadow pattern suggests it’s lit from above. There is nothing to do but manually reverse the direction of the light.

Load the Towers+ChurchFronts selection from the MaskHoldingLayers group, and Shift+Command/Ctrl+C. Doing so copies all the pixels in the selection, including both towers and both church fronts. Paste it above PaintLayer in the same position you copied it from. Select the new layer, and press Command/Ctrl+E to merge it with PaintLayer. Go through and lighten all the surfaces that face down, and darken all the surfaces that face up. You’ll need to do that for both towers and church ...