The Soft Sea Light

This lesson is about how to create by three pictures only a tender collage of sea-piece. A peculiarity of this collage is that we will do the effect of soft light. For work I took pictures from the Internet, to the authors – thank you.

Resources:
Planet: http://ezkexis.deviantart.com/

Sky:

Background:

Step 1. Background. For it I picked out a picture with soft water and clear stones. We will place it in the bottom of our collage. There must be enough place for sky above.

Step 2. With Rectangular Marquee Tool we select the overhead part up to water, and stretch it on all area of linen.

Step 3. We use Blur > Gaussian Blur filter to spread the overhead part, because after stretching quality of picture suffered.

Step 4. It is time to make sky. I found the picture of light clouds and soft tender light. It it will combine very well with the washed out water. We will insert the picture on a separate layer.

Step 5. We will stretch sky up to horizon. We change Blending Mode of layer to Screen.

Step 6. Now a planet. It is an element which will complete our work. I picked out it for the style of our collage: there is mildness of luminescence in it, as in water and in rays of light, but there is and hardness of stones. It’s what we need. We insert it on a separate layer, and change to the necessary size.

Step 7. We change Blending Mode of layer with planet to Screen.

Step 8. Well, I don’t like this color. We’ll correct it by means of pressing on the “Ctrl+Shift+U” (or through the menu of Image > Adjustments > Desaturate).

Step 9. We will change placing of planet that it looked like it is coming behind horizon. It will give an effect, like it is much bigger, then it seemed.

Step 10. We will spread superfluous part of the planet, and we’ll do it like a reflection on water. Not to touch the area of planet higher than horizon, we will select necessary part by Rectangular Marquee Tool.

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