The Magic Night
Step 21. It will be quite good to make highlights of the planet on the bottom reflection, as if it will be on water. For this purpose we will copy our heavenly body and we will reflect it on a vertical.
Step 22. By means of Smudge Tool we will spread it, as on picture
Step 23. After spreading it became much dimmer. We will correct it by means of Dodge Tool (Highlights, 100 %).
Step 24. By means of a simple brush with Opacity of 70 %, we will add some patches of reflected light.
Step 25. Well, if the planet is reflected, so and stars should be reflected. We will copy them and reflect on a vertical.
Step 26. Last touch. We choose Dodge tool (Highlights, 50 %), and we clarify background in areas where the planet and its reflection is located.
Step 27. By means of Burn Tool (Midtones, 50 %) we black out the edges of our canvas.
The collage is ready! Use your imagination, I have shown to you technical details.
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that’s a beautiful result!
i’ve gone through many tutorials; many teach you something technical or others are about some cool trick you can do to achieve something.
but this tutorial just uses basic tools to create something that looks incredible!
keep up the work
Nice but … usually reflections are … uhu … reflecting, but the clouds reflected are different from the visible one and there is not the moon/planet reflected on the water …
This is disturbing …
Keep up the good work!
I think I see what Sauro is getting at. The clouds on the bottom reflection look a bit too strong, and the moon/planet reflection looks more like the way a sun would reflect. A moon would show a bit more crescent and less squiggly. Up top you barely see any clouds at all, save the small dark smudges. It isn’t bad, but some of us are probably very picky lol.
However, you still teach the ideas of photo manipulating very well. I suggest this to anyone interested in starting to learn manipulation. It has all the basics.
Hi! I don’t think I’m doing step 2 or 3 right….my results don’t look the same as the tutorial!! I can’t seem to duplicate the layer! Can anyone help me?
I think you messed up on the Moon’s Reflection, it just doesn’t look right.
The reflection of the water implies that the water surface is smooth and without ripples (looking at the trees’s reflection), but looking at the moon’s reflection it looks like there’s a lot of ripples.
It’s just over done. My $0.02.
Cool tutorial. I have to agree with Kbaby though. The planet’s reflection is a bit off. But still great manipulation man. =) Thanks.
The reflection of the moon and stars don’t seem convincing. I have taken many shots of the moon reflected in water and this doesn’t look real. Please confer with more reference pictures.
nice design