How to Manipulate a Beautiful Sunset Matte Painting in Photoshop

Hide the effect of Photo Filter adjustment layer on selected parts of waterfall that will only effect the water parts of waterfall.

Step 18

Add the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to the waterfall. Set the setting as shown in the image below and also hide the effect in selected parts of waterfall or leave it.

Step 19

Reduce the brightness and increase the contrast of waterfall by adding a Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer. Reduce the opacity of Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer to 70% and also hide the selected effects as shown in the image below.

Step 20

I want add fog to the waterfall because as the water falls from the waterfall it creates a fog or kind of white smokes. To add it, create a new layer and name it ‘Fog’ then activate the brush tool and set the opacity and flow of brush to 30%. Now change your foreground color to #494745 then start painting some fog like shown in the image below.

Step 21

Add a layer mask to the fog layer and then apply Cloud filter on the layer mask of fog layer by selecting Filter > Render > Clouds. That will properly turn it into the fog. Here are the results.

Step 22

Add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to the fog layer. Set the setting as shown in the image below.

Step 23

Extract the fisherman and place it to the main document. Also hide the water parts of fisherman as shown in the image below.

Step 24

Add a Photo Filter adjustment layer to the fisherman to blend it properly to the entire scene. Set the setting a shown in the image below.

Step 25

Add a Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer to the fisherman. Set the setting as shown in the image below. Hide the selected effect of Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer by painting with soft round black on the layer mask of Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer. Also reduce the opacity of Brightness/Contrast to 80%.

Here are the results so far.

Step 26

Load the birds brushes in Photoshop then paint some birds as shown in the image below.

Step 27

In this step we’ll be enhancing the light effect more precisely. Create new layer then name it ‘light’ and paint some light as shown in the image below with color #532b03 using soft round brush tool.

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