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New Layer: sky
Foreground Color: #5f97bb
Background Color: #bfd6dd
Background Style: Gradient
Gradient: Foreground-background
Style: Linear
Angle: 0
Repeats: 0
Invert: Checked
OK
Selection Tool
Selection type: Rectangle
Mode: Replace
Feather: 0
Anti-alias: NOT Checked
Select the top third of the image
Flood Fill [F] with the gradient
Keep Selected
Warp Brush
Warp Mode: Noise
Size: 150
Hardness: 50
Strength: 80
Step: 50
Noise: 100
Lock parameters: NOT Checked
Edge mode: Fixed
Draft quality: High
Final apply: Best quality: Checked
Move the brush in circles to form the clouds
Selections/ Select None [Ctrl+D] |
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Dirt |
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Magic Wand
Mode Replace
Match Mode: RGB Value
Tolerance: 20
Sample Merged: NOT Checked
Contiguous: Checked
Feather: 0
Anti-alias: NOT Checked
Click on any blank space
New Layer: dirt
Foreground Color: #9b8155
Background Color: #4b5537
Paint Brush [B]
Brush Tip: +Round 25
Size: 25
Hardness: 60
Step: 1
Density: 100
Thickness: 25
Rotation: 0
Opacity: 100
Blend Mode: Normal
Brush Variance Palette [F11]
Color Blend: 25
Size: 31
Rotation: 5
Position Jitter: 54
Fill in the selection
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Mountain |
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New Layer: mountain
Foreground Style: Null
Background Color: #626066
Pen Tool
Mode: Freehand
Tracking: 10
Connect Segments: NOT Checked
Create On Vector: NOT Checked
Show Nodes: Checked
Anti-alias: Checked
Sketch in some mountains
Switch Mode to Edit and adjust the
nodes if desired
Selections/ Select None [Ctrl+D]
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You can edit the nodes as long as the image
is selected
Once you deselect you can no longer edit them |
New Raster Layer: shading
Foreground Color: #595a6c
Background Color: #82767a
Airbrush Tool
Brush Tip: +Round 25
Size: +25
Hardness: 25
Step: 25
Density:25
Thickness: 100
Rotation: 0
Opacity: 100
Blend Mode: Normal
Rate: 1
Scribble on some of each color
Making sure to go over the edges
Adjust/ Add and Remove Noise/ Add
Noise
Gaussian
Noise: 30%
Monochrome: Checked
OK
Effects/ Plugins/ Eye Candy 4000/
Jiggle
Movement Type: Brownian Motion
Bubble size: 3.00
Warp Amount: 36.88
Twist: 99
Seamless Tile: NOT Checked
Random Seed: 1
OK
Effects/ Plugins/ Eye Candy 3/
Jiggle
Bubble size: 5
Warp Amount: 39
Twist: 90
Movement Type: Brownian Motion
OK
Active Layer: mountain
Magic Wand Tool
Mode: Replace
Match Mode: RGB Value
Tolerance: 25
Contiguous: Checked
Feather: 0
Anti-alias: NOT Checked
Click on the mountain
Selections/ Invert [Ctrl+Shift+I]
Active Layer: shading
Tap the Del Key
Selections/ Invert [Ctrl+Shift+I]
Adjust/ Blur/ Gaussian Blur
Radius: 3.00
OK
Selections/ Select None [Ctrl+D] |
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Train |
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New Layer: train
Foreground Color: #262920
Background Color: #393c36
Selection Tool [S]
Selection type: Rectangle
Mode: Replace
Feather: 0
Anti-alias: NOT Checked
Make a small thin selection near the
base of the mountain for the train
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The mountain is way off in the distance so the
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Paint Brush [B]
Brush Tip: +Square 50
Size: 150
Hardness: 90
Step: 100
Density: 100
Thickness: 25
Rotation: 0
Opacity: 100
Blend Mode: Normal
Brush Variance Palette [F11]
Color Blend: 100
Start at one end of the selection and
paint to the other end
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Tracks |
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New Layer: tracks
Foreground Color: #565755
Background Style: Null
Pen Tool
Mode: draw Lines and Polylines
Connect Segments: NOT Checked
Create On Vector: NOT Checked
Show Nodes: checked
Line style: +Solid
Width: 1.00
Anti-alias: Checked
Draw a line just below the train for
the tracks
Active Layer: mountain
Selection Tool [S]
Make a long thin selection from the
tracks to a little bit above the train
Adjust/ Brightness and Contrast/
Brightness/Contrast [Shift+B]
Brightness: -10
Contrast: 0
OK
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I did my darkening on the mountain layer.
However if you don't get the desired results, try it on the shading layer |
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Houses |
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Active Layer: tracks
New Layer: houses
Foreground Color: #543f2e
Background Color: #9a8e4e
Paint Brush [B]
Brush Tip: +Square 10
Size: 10-20
Hardness: 94
Step: 200
Density: 100
Thickness: 100
Rotation: 0
Opacity: 100
Blend Mode: Normal
Brush Variance Palette [F11]
Color Blend: 100
Hue: 25
Saturation: 100
Position Jitter: 150
Starting at the base of the mountain using a Size 10 Brush
paint a line or two of houses
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This part of Juárez is very crowded and from the
freeway
it looks almost like a solid mass of houses |
Continue adding houses, increasing the size of the brush
as you move forward
Adjust/ Hue and Saturation/
Hue/Saturation/Lightness [Shift+H]
Edit/ Reds
Hue: 23
OK
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Finishing |
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Sign your painting and add a frame and you are done
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I hope you have enjoyed this
tutorial |
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