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Saturday, September 26, 2009

Mist in the trees tutorial


For this misty mountain top landscape,
I used just two flypaper textures,
Raw Linen @ Linear burn setting 46% and opacity at 63%
although I liked it, I didn't need the texture, so I blurred it with Gaussian blur for a smooth finish.
Necropolis was used in Overlay @ 55%, Opacity 56%
So we come to the 2nd brown version.





I really wanted a fresher look so I went to the top of the page,
image - adjustments - colour balance, with Necropolis-only selected,
and moved the sliders as shown, the Necropolis texture becomes bright green!

 

Flatten and crop square.
Et voila, a nice fresh but misty/moody landscape!

4 comments:

Borealnz (Jill) said...

Great tutorial Paul, the starting photo is nice but the finished one is stunning with the textures!

paulgrand said...

Thanks Jill, It was worth that freezing fog to get an image! :-)

Anonymous said...

What a beautiful photo - and thank you so much for sharing your technique - much appreciated!

paulgrand said...

Thank you too!

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