How to Manipulate a Beautiful Sunset Matte Painting in Photoshop

Change the blend mode of light layer to linear Dodge and reduce the opacity to 38%. Here are the results.

Step 28

Again create a new layer then name it ‘light 1’. Using the same color in previous step then paint a big stroke as shown in the image below.

Set the blend mode of ‘light 1’ layer to linear dodge and reduce the opacity to 40%. Here are the results.

Step 29

Again create a new layer then name it ‘light 2’ and this time paint a big stroke little bit below the last one using same color setting of previous step and here are the results.

Change the blend mode of ‘light 2’ layer to linear dodge and reduce the opacity to 20%.

Step 30

The bay layer has some unwanted parts like pillar, houses, wires etc and I don’t want them. So, we’ll be cleaning up such thing using clone stamp tool. Create a new layer and start cloning the parts as shown in the image below.

Step 31

On the other side clone these parts as well.

Here are results after cloning.

Step 32

Open up the foliage pack and choose ‘Foliage 6’ then place it to left bottom corner.

To add some depth to the scene I added a Gaussian Blur filter to the foliage 6 by selecting Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and set the radius to 2.7 pixel. Here are the results.

Step 33

Add a Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer to the foliage 6 and set the setting as shown in the image below. Also hide the selected effect of Brightness/Contrast on foliage 6.

Step 34

Reduce the lightness and saturation of foliage 6 by adding a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to the foliage 6.

Step 35

Add a Photo Filter adjustment layer to foliage.

Step 36

Now add the foliage 1 to the document and rotate it as shown in the image.

I also added a Gaussian Blur filter to this foliage with same setting as in step 32. Here are the results.

Step 37

Add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to the foliage 1 and on the layer mask of this adjustment layer hide the selected effect.

Step 38

Now add a Photo Filter adjustment layer to foliage. Set the setting as shown in the image below.

Step 39

So we have set up our landscape and it’s time to head towards the ‘Final Adjustments’. Paint some light with color #68421a as shown in the image below.

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5