Reduce the opacity of the layer to 40%
Step 28 – River
Go back to the background, and place the image of a river
Add a layer mask and hide all the parts leaving only the river, and reduce the opacity of the layer to 70%
Step 29 – Shadows
Pick a soft round brush a big one and paint over the rock to make the shadow of the model. Color black with 35% of opacity
Step 30 – Highlights
In a new layer with a small round brush 2 or 4px paint to make strokes in the mountains and objects, the color has to be orange.
Here they are white so you can see them
Step 31 – Blur
Make the background a little blurry to do this, hide all the layers and just leave the ones that belong to the background, press Ctrl + A, then Ctrl + Shift + C to select the current image, not the current layer, and finally press Ctrl + V and you will have a copy of the background.
Adding blur to the background will give the look that the mountains and all the other objects are far away from the model.
Now you can convert the layer in a smart object and apply the filter Gaussian blur with 2px of radius:
Step 32 – Dark
In a new layer paint with a black brush like this, the opacity can be set with the pen pressure or you can you 20%
Change the layer mode to soft light
Step 33 – Colors
Now paint the sky with orange, yellow and a bit of blue tones to give more intensity to the lighting. Use the layer in soft light mode
In soft light mode
Step 34 – Gradient Fill
Go to the menu that is in the bottom of the layers and select the icon Create New Fill or adjustment layer, and then pres at the option Gradient.
Now Select black and Yellow to to the gradient
Step 35 – Layer Mode
Change layer mode to Soft light and reduce the opacity to 20%
Step 36 – The final touch
Fill a new layer with black and go to the menu Filter – Render – Lens Flare
Press Ok and you will have something like this:
change layer mode to screen, reduce the opacity to 50% and the fill to 70%
That’s all this time.
Final Results
Tutorial by Andrea Garcia
Thank you so much for reading this tutorial, I hope this is helpful for you all. If you want to check more of my art go to www.andygarcia666.deviantart.com
– Andrea García
38 responses to “How to Create a Stunning Surreal Landscape”
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Most of link to pictures are dead.
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so hard
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UGHHHH I CANT DO ANYTHING HELP ME
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omg this sucks!!!! it did not help at alll. jujst made everything trickier!! UGHH!!!.
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It’s cool
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Why no images from steps 1 to 7 and steps 23 to end?
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Images seem to show up fine on my end
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Nice one bro…was the picture taken via a phone?
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VereGUOD
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great:)
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WOW! greeeeaaaat! I want moooooreeee!!!
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greeeeaaaat! I want moooooreeee!!!
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I did in the past some of your tutorials here: http://annewipf.deviantart.com/gallery/46678452/Done-from-tutorials
But we can’t see the tutorials on photoshop-tutorials anymore. :(
I tried to contact them, but it doesn’t operate. :(
Please, do you know if we have to pay something, of everything else we can do? I loved to do the tutorials I found here and I often give the link to photoshop-tutorials to beginners, so it is quite ennoying. Thank you. -
I like chicken #PancakeGoals
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ممنون.tanks
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Help Me… :(
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xD learn
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Help Me Im So Confuse… :(
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Beautiful, creative and acutely enjoy able!
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Why can not I find the source files?
Please help to find them.
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Thanks so much for a great tutorial. There were some aspects I had to guess, and I believe one of the mountain images had to be flipped before it could be used, but for a newbie in photo-manipulation, this was fantastic.
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What am I doing wrong?! I am doing everything step by step but when I add the 2nd picture and try to meld it into to the background it doesn’t work. It still looks like I would’ve glued another photo on top of the other one even though I’ve done everything on the tutorial. Yep they share the same color however the 2nd pictures outlines are still visible (the square lines) I am terrible with explaining :D
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Amazing… thank you.
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Hey, awesome tutorial!!
I’m not that good with photoshop, I only got it for two months :)
But this is still worth a try, will be fun I guess :)
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Very awesome tutorial. This is just amazing, way beyond my skill level, but it has certainly opened up my eyes to what can be done with Photoshop. Thanks,
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Step 10? I’m totally confused there. Any help?
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Wow! Thank you for sharing.
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awsome crativity
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Hi,
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there are repeated photos in the tutorial… :( find some of the steps interesting but wrong photo makes the tutorial somewhat bad… :( although the concept is awesome… but the flow is altered… i rate it 3.5 out of 5… but the steps deserve 5 out of 5… :)
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Where to get the picture in step 4 river? I’ve been looking at the user Faestock and can not find or rather, does not exist.
Thank you very much.
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Why are no Pictures on the third side.
No pictures from step 23 to end ?
Please fix.
Thanks. ;-)
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Thanks! We don’t know what happened but the images have been fixed :)
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wtf happened between step 20 and 21
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That’s a great title for a thriller
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really good………
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Good tutorial
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