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Foreground Color: #60a4ba
Background Color: #bfdee7
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
Rename this layer: sky
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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Mountain |
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New Raster Layer: Mountain
Foreground Color: Transparent
Background Color: #61687b
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
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Mountain Shading |
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New Raster Layer: shading
Foreground Color: #595a6c
Background Color: #82767a
Airbrush Tool
Brush Tip: +Round 10
Size: 10
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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Grass |
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New Raster Layer: grass
Foreground Color: #b9a367
Background Color: #d3c085
Paint Brush [B]
Brush Tip: +Round 10
Size: 10
Hardness: 60
Step: 1
Density: 100
Thickness: 2
Rotation: 25
Opacity: 100
Brush Variance palette [F11]
Color Blend: 100
Size: 10
Rotation: 5
Fade Rate: 100
Position Jitter: 54
Just sort of fill the open area with grass
Active Layer: sky
Magic Wand
Click on any blank space
Flood Fill [F] with the Foreground Color
Selections/ Select None [Ctrl+D] |
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Bushes |
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Active Layer: grass
New Raster Layer: bushes
Foreground Color: #253a2b
Background Color: #1a3c0a
Paint Brush [B]
Brush Tip: +Round 10
Size: 10
Hardness: 94
Step: 200
Density: 50
Thickness: 100
Rotation: 0
Opacity: 100
Brush Variance palette [F11]
Color Blend: 5
Size: 5
Fade Rate: 100
Position Jitter: 0
Place the brush where you want a bush
Click once
Repeat for as many bushes as desired
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Sometimes it doesn't look like the brush did anything or the bush is
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Effects/ Plugins/ Eye Candy 4000/ Jiggle
Movement Type: Brownian Motion
Bubble size: 5.00
Warp Amount: 7.59
Twist: 47
Seamless Tile: NOT Checked
Random Seed: 255
OK
Effects/ Plugins/ Eye Candy 3/ Jiggle
Bubble size: 5
Warp Amount: 8
Twist: 44
Movement Type: Brownian Motion
OK |
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Cows |
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New Raster Layer: cows
Foreground Color: #000000
Background Color: #404040
Paint Brush [B]
Brush Tip: +Round 10
Size: 20
Hardness: 94
Step: 200
Density: 100
Thickness: 66
Rotation: 90
Opacity: 100
Brush Variance palette [F11]
Color Blend: 100
Size: 1
Fade Rate: 100
Position Jitter: 250
Place some cows in the middle third of the image
New Raster Layer: heads
Change Brush Size to: 10
Brush Variance [F11]
Change Position Jitter to: 0
Add some heads to the cows
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Fence |
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New Raster Layer: fence
Foreground Style: Pattern
Pattern: Drift Wood
Angle: 90
Scale: 75
OK
+Square 25
Size: 100
Hardness: 50
Step: 150
Density: 100
Thickness: 20
Rotation: 0
Opacity: 100
Paint a line across the bottom of the image
Eraser [X]
Brush Tip: +Default
Size: 25
Hardness: 100
Step: 1
Density: 100
Thickness: 100
Rotation: 0
Opacity: 100
Leave the first post on the left
Erase the next 4
Skip the next
Erase the next 4
Repeat to the end
Adjust/ Color Balance/ Manual Color Correction
Manual target color: Checked
Hue: 23
Saturation: 40
Lightness: 144
OK
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Wire |
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New Raster Layer: wire
Create a custom line
Pen Tool
Click on the arrow next to Line Style
Click on the custom button
This opens the Styled Line Editor
The very first thing I always do is click the Save as New button and give it a
name.
Here are my settings
Click on Save and your line is ready to use
Foreground Color: #a7a1a1
Pen [V]
Mode: Draw Point to Point - Bezier Curves
Connect segments: checked
Create on Vector: NOT Checked
Show Nodes: Checked
Line style: [the line you just created]
Width: 1
Place the cursor at the left edge
Click once
Move to the first post
Click once
Move to the next post
Click once
Continue across the image, ending at the right edge
Apply
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I made my wire red so it would show up in the
screen shot |
Repeat the line three more times
Effects/ Texture Effects/ Sculpture
Pattern: galvanized
Size: 50
Smoothness: 78
Depth: 45
Ambience: -70
Shininess: 10
Color: #c0c0c0
Angle: 315
Intensity: 86
Elevation: 79
OK
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Finishing |
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Active layer: cows
Effects/ 3D Effects/ Drop Shadow
Vertical: 0
Horizontal: 3
Opacity: 45
Blur: 8.00
OK
Active layer: fence
Effects/ 3D Effects/ Drop Shadow
Active layer: wire
Effects/ 3D Effects/ Drop Shadow
Vertical: 0
Horizontal: 1
Opacity: 45
Blur: 3.00
OK
I added a frame and signed my painting
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I hope you enjoyed this
tutorial |
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