This lesson will show you, how by means of a few pictures to create a fantastic mountain landscape. Whiteness of snow in combination with radiance of stars must give an interesting effect. I found storages in the internet. I want to express my big gratitude to the authors of these works.
Planets: http://Burning_Liquid.deviantart.com/, http://Mr_Frenzy.deviantart.com/, http://annisahmad.deviantart.com/
Step 1. We will begin with a background. I have chosen a picture with an enough sharp, but impressive mountain top. Snow lies very well. It is exactly what we need. We will dispose the picture at the bottom of canvas, to have enough place from above for space.
Step 2. With Rectangular Marquee Tool we select overhead part of sky (you have not to touch clouds), and stretch it to the limit of sheet.
Step 3. We copy the stretched part on a separate layer and use a filter Blur- Gaussian Blur, to spread poor areas, which appeared because of stretching.
Step 4. It is time to add a celestial body. Planet with which we will work must be largeness and good value. We place it on the canvas so, that a part of it let it be even little, disappeared behind a snow peak.
Step 5. We change Blending Mode of the layer with planet to Screen.
Step 6. By means of the Eraser Tool we will wipe up neatly the superfluous areas of our planet.
Step 7. A color turned out not quite that we needed. It clashes a little with the tints of mountains, don’t you think so? We will correct it by Image – Adjustments – Desaturate (ctrl+shift+U) menu.
Step 8. One planet - is not enough. It is necessary to add a few celestial bodies. We will insert with a new layer a little planet.
Step 9. We change Blending Mode to Linear Dodge.
Step 10. We use Eraser Tool and we will wipe up neatly a part of planet.
Step 11. Oh, no, it isn’t its place for sure. We will carry it behind the bigger planet, to the overhead right corner. Yes, there it looks much better.
Step 12. We will add a few stars. You can draw them, it’s simple, and can use difficult brushes, but it is better do it on a separate layer. So, at least, it will be not difficult to correct one or another star.
Step 13. We choose Dodge Tool (Range- Midtones, Exposure-50%), and will light up sky near mountains. It will give the impression, that there, after horizon, it is dawning, that time goes, and it will give to the collage life.
Step 14. Using Smudge Tool, we will spread a cloud. We will make it softer.
Step 15. One more planet can enter in empty part of sky. We find a suitable one and insert it with a separate layer.
Step 16. We change Blending Mode to Screen.
Step 17. For the last touch we must save our collage in the format of jpg and open it Photoshop. In the menu of Image – Adjustments – Color Balance we put tuning as on pictures:
That is all. I hope, the result impressed you, and you learned something new. So, make your own experiments!
16 Responses
That’s and amazing tutorial, I added it to my directory.
It would be so weird to have our moon that close.
This is a nice tutorial that shows us how we can create imaginary scapes. The only comment I really have on this is, that our moon has no clouds, so it could never be our moon ! It’s a nice tut indeed!
it is a very nice but if you can explin it more clearly
it will easy to understand easily to feresher
Wonderful tut; was quite impressed what I ended up with
thanks a lot
It’s a nice tut. But please look a bit more on the lights, shadows and their directions. For example, the big planet in the back is brighter in the top right side, so the light comes from top right. But in contrary on the planet in front the light shines from the right bottom… At last, the direction of the light on the matterhorn doesn’t match neither with the two others.
very good thhnx
Thanks! Lots of fun.
Good tutorial!! Impressive planet pic anyway!!
fantastic planet pics and a good tut as well!
thanks
1 thing i would say in responce to the first comment .. if he had the moon that close to us the gravatainal force would cause all the tide to go massivly out and in the other side of the world all this extra water would drown most of the people beaucse all of the billions of leters of water suddenly rushing to one side of the plannet not to mention the effect it would have on the earths orbit… and yes that picutre is quite true… “FACT” the earth has two moons.. but the second moon only orbits the earth once every 740 years … so unluickly you will see it
nice tut tho simple and effective
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professional design and professionally explained thanks
Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog.
Cheers! Sandra. R.
Shadows on mountaing are opposite to shadows on planets. Light comes from left for the mountainn and from right for the planets… not possible. Good tutorial, anyway.