Creepy Lady on a Dark Mountain – Learn How to Create This Composite in Photoshop

Learn how to create this surreal mountain landscape in Photoshop. In this tutorial you’ll learn how you can create a mountain scene and how to add creepy trees to your scene without making the selections. You will also learn how to create shadows, lights, work with layer mask, adjustments layers and much more.

What you’ll be creating

First of all we will create a dark cloudy atmosphere using landscape, moon and clouds images. Next we’ll add the mountains to the scene and you will learn how you can create a surreal mountain landscape. After that we will add creepy trees to the scene and you’ll learn how to blend them less than in few minutes. Then we’ll add lamps, model, crow and we will also create a lights, shadow to make it realistic. At the end finish it up with using adjustments layers properly. You’ll need Photoshop CS5 or newer to follow this tutorial.

Tutorial Resources

• Rainy Landscape– Wyldraven Stock
• SKY– Pelleron stock
• Moon– Pixabay
• Mountain 1– LucieG Stock
• Mountain 2– Pixabay
• Mountain 3– Pixabay
• Mountain 4 – Pixabay
• Smoke brush– Brusheezy
• Death valley – Pixabay
• Lamp– Chop-Stock
• Model– Mjranum Stock
• Raven and Crow PSD– Fairiegoodmother
• Birds brushes– Candymax Stock

Step 1

First of all download all the resources and keep them in a folder because it make’s easier to follow the tutorial. Now start by creating a new document by selecting File>new and set the setting as shown in below or you can go for higher setting.

Step 2

Now, Place it as shown in the image by selecting File>Place. We use Place command because Photoshop will automatically place the image as smart objects.

Step 3

Add a layer mask to the landscape by clicking add layer mask button(second button) on layer panel. Select a soft round black brush by pressing (B) on the keyboard then paint on the layer mask as shown in the image below.

Step 4

Next, add a Hue/Saturation(layer>new adjustment layer>hue/saturation or see the image below)adjustment layer then click the button shown in the image to create a clipping mask and set the hue to 0, saturation to -47 and lightness to -52 as shown in the image. Now select the landscape and hue/saturation adjustment layer by holding shift key and then group them by pressing CMD/CTRL+G. Name that group base.

Step 5

Now, place the sky image and place it below the landscape layer.

Step 6

Add a curves adjustment layer(layer>new adjustment layer>curves) to the sky and set is as shown in the image.

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