Matte painting is used in photography and film making. It's where you combine 2 or more images to create a final image. Mattes are usually used to combine a foreground and background image. In filming mattes are used a lot for special effects. They are used to create illusions and things that you can't physically do. For example if you are filming someone flying you would need two videos. One would be of the person you are having flying doing what they're doing before they fly and then them jumping. The second footage would be of just the background and no one in the shot. This is used a lot in the film superman. Superman in 1978 isn't that convincing as digital painting wasn't invented yet but at the times it was probably very convincing as no one probably really saw someone fly. The recent superman film "Man of steel" has very good effects.
In 1905 Norman Dawn, a photographer developed a technique that joined a photograph and painting together. He did this to enhance the environment that is in the shot.To do this he got his photographs and painting and placed them on a large sheet of glass. He then placed black tape over the parts where the painting would go. After putting the camera in the correct position he placed it over it. This meant that he could film what he wanted without the parts he wanted. However 80 years after a painter, Chris Evans was the first person to use digital painting. This involved blending a scanned image with a digital painting to create an ultra-realistic scene. This was first used in the film Young Sherlock Holmes. Some of the most popular films it was used in are Star Wars, Planet Of The Apes, The Wizard Of Oz, King Kong and Indiana Jones. Now a days we don't have to spend a lot of time to add mattes to use for effects because we have technology such us Photoshop, Video making software and the use of Wacom tablets. 
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