Fantasy Landscape
This fantasy landscape was done from scratch in Photoshop CS3.
Labels: 'from-scratch', fantasy, landscape painting, Photoshop
posted by MEL at 12:23 AM
Sunday, September 30, 2007
This fantasy landscape was done from scratch in Photoshop CS3.
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- Location: Virginia, United States
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5 Comments:
very interesting work :)
will visit regularly to see more PS work.
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Wow, this is so beautiful. I add your link at my site now. I wonder if you could share your method of this abstract at photoshop
Thank you both for your kind comments.
What would you like to know?
I use slightly different techniques on different pieces.
I'll be glad to impart any knowledge I can.
MEL810
Thank you for the reply. I can see you have used a variety of filters to the image. Sure multiple layers were used as well. I wonder if you could comment on the application of techniques in a point form (of course, only if you have time and this is not going to be too troublesome). For example, adjustment layer with gausian blurr following by several layers of whatever filters being used and touch up with dodgeing etc
I got the basic technique for this piece from:
http://www.tutorialwiz.com/mountains/
The guy does great tuts that almost anyone can follow easily.
To make the 'waterfall effect" I pulled the piece using the "Liquify" command/filter and then dodged out the light. The foliage is from some foliage brushes I found on the net. Each is added in a seperate layer.
Do Google search for such brushes.
I cut out the background of the mountains using the erase tool and did a drop shadow and inner shadow. I added a second layer of mountains behind & above the first( that I had cut out & then flipped the canvas so it would look different.)
The background layer for the sky is a gradient with added noise. The planets were made using the oval shape tool and hitting them with gradients. Then I
added them, as a separate layer with a drop shadow, to the background and used the blur tool around the edges to make the planets seem to blend into the sky.
The frame is IC-nets gradient frame. IC-net is a Filter Factory set given me by a friend. But you could do a similar frame using a gold gradient, the square shape tool and using layer styles to build depth.MEL810
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