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First we are going to make a gradient
Foreground Color: #f4bda8
Background Color: #9cb5bd
Background Style: Gradient
Click the property box
The Material Properties window will open
Select the Gradient tab
Use the Gradient that comes up for now
Angle: 0
Repeats: 0
Invert: NOT Checked
Style: Linear
Click the Edit button below the gradient selection box
The Gradient Editor will open
Click New
Name your Gradient - I used LF_ForegroundBackground
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I always put LF_ before anything I create. This
forces all my creations to be grouped together |
Click on the left bottle [1]
Click the Fore: box under Gradient
Click on the right bottle [2]
Click the Back: box under Gradient
Click the center diamond [3]
Change Location to: 30
Close
Answer Yes
OK
Your gradient is now ready to use
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This is a foreground background Gradient so if you
change the foreground or background color the gradient will change. The
settings will remain the same |
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Sky |
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New Layer: sky
Selection Tool [S]
Selection Type: Rectangle
Mode: Replace: Feather: 0
Anti-alias: NOT Checked
Select the top third of the image
Flood Fill Tool [F]
Match Mode: None
Sample Merged: NOT Checked
Blend Mode: Normal
Opacity: 100
Flood
Foreground Color: #a8caad
Background Color: #60908f
Background Style: Gradient |
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Water |
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New Layer: water
Selection Tool [S]
Select three fourths of the remaining space
Flood
Foreground Color: #d4b680
Background Color: #e3cd99
Background Style: Gradient |
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Sand |
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New Layer: sand
Selection Tool [S]
Select the remaining space
Flood
Adjust/ Add/Remove Noise/ Add Noise
Uniform
Noise: 5%
Monochrome: checked
OK
Repeat 2 more times
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Warp The Water |
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Active Layer: water
Layers/ Duplicate
Layers/ Arrange/ Bring to Top
Warp Brush
Warp Mode: Expand
Size: 100
Hardness: 0
Strength: 100
Step: 25
Noise: grayed out
Lock parameters: NOT Checked
Edge mode: Background
Draft Quality: Medium
Final apply: Best quality: Checked
Warp the water up over the sand
Apply
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Warp The Sky |
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Active Layer: sky
Layers/ Duplicate
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
Warp some of the orange up into the blue
Smudge Brush
Size: 55
Hardness: 50
Step: 10
Density: 25
Thickness: 100
Rotation: 0
Opacity: 25
Sample merged: NOT Checked
Smudge any rough edges
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Waves |
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Active Layer: Copy of water
New Layer: waves
Starting Colors
Foreground Color: #476f6f
Background Color: #5e8263
Mid Colors
Foreground Color: #5e8c8b
Background Color:#7aa07f
Ending Colors
Foreground Color: #bfddc3
Background Color: #e0f0e2
Paint Brush [B]
Size: 5-25
Hardness: 80
Step: 34
Density: 35
Thickness: 100
Rotation: 0
Opacity: 100
Blend Mode: Normal
Continuous: NOT Checked
Wet look paint: NOT Checked
Brush Variance Palette [F11]
Color Blend: 100
Size: Oscillating Fade
Thickness: Oscillating Fade
Fade Rate: 373
Position Jitter: 200
Starting with the dark colors and the smallest brush paint in some waves.
Increasing the brush size as you work inward and switching to the lighter
colors
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Alt+C increases the brush size and Alt+X decreases
the size. Hold down the Ctrl Key while running the mouse over a color to
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Paint on some waves
Smudge Brush
Size: 32
Hardness: 50
Step: 25
Density: 50
Thickness: 100
Rotation: 0
Opacity: 75
Sample Merged: NOT Checked
Smudge the waves
I smudges crosswise first then up and down
New Layer: waves 2
Paint on some whitecaps
Smudge
Foreground Color: #ffd878
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Sun |
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New Layer: sun
Brush Tip: +Round 50
Size: 50
Hardness: 25
Step: 10
Density: 100
Thickness: 100
Rotation: 0
Opacity: 75
Blend Mode: Normal
Place the mouse where you want the sun to be
Click once
Move the layer below the water layer
Active Layer: waves 2
New Layer: sun rays
Paint Brush [B]
Change
Density to: 50
Opacity to: 25
Place the brush on the sun
Click Once
Move the cursor downward and to the left a little
Hold down the Shift Key
Click Once
Smudge Brush
Change
Size to: 55
Smudge the rays
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Finish |
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Sign your painting and add a frame
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I hope you have enjoyed this
tutorial
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