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The Soft Sea Light

On 06.24.08, In Photo Effects, by sergio
This lesson is about how to create by three pictures only a tender collage of sea-piece. A peculiarity of this collage is that we will do the effect of soft
light. For work I took pictures from the Internet, to the authors thank you.

Resources:
Planet: http://ezkexis.deviantart.com/
Sky:
Background:
Step 1. Background. For it I picked out a picture with soft water and clear stones. We will place it in the bottom of our collage. There must be
enough place for sky above.
Step 2. With Rectangular Marquee Tool we select the overhead part up to water, and stretch it on all area of linen.
Step 3. We use Blur > Gaussian Blur filter to spread the overhead part, because after stretching quality of picture suffered.
Step 4. It is time to make sky. I found the picture of light clouds and soft tender light. It it will combine very well with the washed out water. We will
insert the picture on a separate layer.
Step 5. We will stretch sky up to horizon. We change Blending Mode of layer to Screen.
Step 6. Now a planet. It is an element which will complete our work. I picked out it for the style of our collage: there is mildness of luminescence in
it, as in water and in rays of light, but there is and hardness of stones. Its what we need. We insert it on a separate layer, and change to the necessary
size.
Step 7. We change Blending Mode of layer with planet to Screen.
Step 8. Well, I dont like this color. Well correct it by means of pressing on the Ctrl+Shift+U (or through the menu of Image > Adjustments >
Desaturate).
Step 9. We will change placing of planet that it looked like it is coming behind horizon. It will give an effect, like it is much bigger, then it seemed.
Step 10. We will spread superfluous part of the planet, and well do it like a reflection on water. Not to touch the area of planet higher than horizon,
we will select necessary part by Rectangular Marquee Tool.
Step 11. We will take off the selection and we will spread a little the reflection.
Step 12. We will do fog on horizon. We create a new layer and draw with simple white brush a line, even line (pressing Ctrl).
Step 13. We will take the Smudge Tool and by vertical motions we will spread the line, as on the picture:
Step 14. We use the filter of Blur Gaussian Blur. Now it looks like fog.
Step 15. We will do a copy of layer with fog, but will decrease a width in two times.
Step 16. We use the filter of Gaussian Blur again. Fog is ready. Then we can do another copy of this layer and spread it more.
Step 17. It is time to bring in the main changes in the work. We do a duplicate of the layer with sky, Blending Mode: Luminosity. The mood of the
collage changed. Sky became more, interesting more wonderful, more alive.
Step 18. By the Eraser Tool we will wipe up a superfluous area which leaked out in the layer with a planet.
Step 19. For next changes we will save our collage in the format of jpg, and we will open it already in Photoshop. In the menu of Image >
Adjustments > Brightness/Contrasts we put tuning as on the picture:
Step 20. In the menu of Image > Adjustments > Shadow/Highlight we put tuning as on the pictures. It is the last touch; it will give a certain
mystery to the landscape.
End. I hope that a lesson was useful for you, and the result pleased.
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26 Responses
Tutorial Effect
06.24.08

Looks good! Im gonna try this out soon.

Helen
06.24.08

Very beautiful!!!

Losek
06.24.08

in my opinion - without a moon it will look much better..

Arun
06.24.08

Very Nice
kshin
06.24.08

The effect of the final picture is so nice~

Bjorgvin
06.24.08

Nice tutorial. You should always credit the authors of the photographs you use though, not just the first one.

jackie
06.24.08

i wanna learn about adobe photoshop. it really amaze me.

didz
06.24.08

Good idea and very nice

phamhai001
06.24.08

very nice!! i like your tutorial

thank very much

FM
06.24.08

thats a good tut!

nina7683
06.24.08

great,very beautiful

tom
06.24.08

very nice!!
aslam
06.24.08

very good sir

Jan
06.24.08

Fantastic, going to give it a go now

jasmine celion
06.24.08

nice tutorial
thanks for it

Tech
06.24.08

fantasti tutorial!
Ezkexis
06.24.08

Its nice to see one of my pieces in a tutorial, thats how I started with photoshop in first place. Feel free to use any of the works in my gallery. Seeya.

deadlyMETAL
06.24.08

Quite impressive for photomanip-enthusiasts. Ill try to apply this to the next piece I work on, and see what I end up with. I tend not to use Screen
much, for lack of understanding how it works, but Ill explore it a bit more.

Jackassbond
06.24.08

should go under how to make an impressive scene using solely blending modes nice job though (sometimes the things that look that best isnt to
many steps away)

mike
06.24.08

Hello guys
merlinthe wise
06.24.08

very nice but you didnt say how you made the picture so blue can you eplain..thanks..i got to the second last part and then i got lost

merlinthe wise
06.24.08

i was able to get the photo to the second last stagecan you tell me how you got the colours so blue at the end..thanks

infocus digital photo retouching

06.24.08

Really creative result! These tutorials are always full of handy tips and effects. Thanks for sharing

Spoced
06.24.08

Good job. How did you get step 5? I dont understand stretch sky up to horizon
Leo
06.24.08

Very nice! Though shouldnt step 19 be Image > Adjustments > Colour Balance instead of Image > Adjustments > Shadows/Highlights?

Tulsi
06.24.08

can u tell me how u Stretched the first image coz i tried it many times and im not able to do it. wud u please tell me coz i really want to try it

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