Take a very soft round brush set to 15-20% opacity. On this layer, stroke the brush on the selected areas with black to give it shadow.
Step 24
Create a new layer above the shadow layer with a clipping mask. Set blending option to soft light and check the Fill with Soft Light-neutral-color (50% gray) to fill the new layer with color of 50% gray.
On this new layer, stroke soft white brush set to opacity of 15-20% on the edges of the foreground to give them highlight, stroke soft black brush to give more shadow on the parts indicated by the red arrows:
Here is the layer will look when it is set to normal at 100% opacity. Select all the foreground rocks and group them in one folder. I named this folder foreground rock.
Step 25
We will add another rock on the left side of the scene. We will use the other stock image to do this purpose. Open the stock image. Cut out the needed part of the image. The selected part of the rock is the one will be used in our scene.
Add the cut out to the main document. Place the cut out on the left side. Scale its size to fit the composition. I named this layer left rock. Make sure to position this layer under the middle rock folder in the layer panel.
Mask the left rock layer on the area around the bottom. Try to mask the upper part with lower opacity so it has desired transparency.
Step 26
Next give this layer adjustment layers with clipping masks. First we will give it a hue/saturation adjustment.
Duplicate the hue/saturation layer two times. Set the original layer to soft light blending mode at 100% and the two duplicates to normal at 100% opacity.
Give the other two adjustment layer: photo filter and brightness/contrast. Set them to normal blending at 100% opacity.
Mask the brightness/contrast layer where needed. Finally, select the all left rock layers and hit Ctrl+G to group them. I named this folder left rock.
Step 27
Proceed to add another rock on the right size of the scene. Open the stock image in the main document. Place the image on the right side. Scale its size to fit the composition. Make sure to position this layer under the middle rock folder. I named this layer right rock.
27 responses to “How to Create a Marvellous Night Landscape with Waterfalls”
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the download link won’t work
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Thanks Zach! It’s fixed now
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Very awesome tut here. Sometimes I wanna make my images a little more “fantasy”, but I always feel like I lack the creativity.
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stunning
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i am triying to remove background
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Great article! Thank you!
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thank you
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I was unable to get the 2 waterfalls as my security wont let me and the Rock6 was not sure which one you wanted…really want to learn this but am having issues ~ thank you
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wooooooooooooowwwww awesome
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awesome and unique collection of sequence photography i love it.
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sorry, i didnt get step 16…i hit -100 on HS but the color changed to totally black n white! whats wrong?
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this is what we call it “creative mind”
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This is amazing! I’m going to try it out soon! Thanks Dek.
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AWESOME.PERIOD
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You did an excellent job of step by step tutorial with pics which helped me understand why and the reason for each.
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I like your tutorial a lot!
But, sorry if it sounds dumb, how do i copy-paste the cut out into the main document (step 3)? It doesn´t work with ctrl+c/ctrl+v…
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firstly select the cut out (hold-press Ctrl and click the thumbnail of the cut out layer. when it is selected, hit Ctrl+C and then be active on the main document, paste (ctrl+v) the layer on it.
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very good tutorial I love your technique
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thanks for share
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Excelente tutorial, el modelo nolo encuentro, saludos desde España
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Hola malissimo,
Aquí lo puedes encontrar: http://photoshopworld.ru/lessons/507/old_man.jpgUn saludo desde Francia
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Btw, thank you for this tutorial. This is impressive. And I learnt new useful techniques.
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how do you get of masking??????????
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If you see red than press Q to get out of quick mask. If you dont see red, just click on the left thumbnail of your layer… the left one not the right thumbnail.
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pathi thane sollirukinga
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This is a magnificent masterpiece. Excellent explanation. Thank you very much.
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Duuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mwanangu jembe unatisha kinoma
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I like yer tut… good
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