Thursday, March 7, 2013

Scene Design 3 - Midnight Summer


1. Create a new document with 1024 * 768 px dimensions . Draw 2 rectangles using the rectangle tool covering 2/3 and 1/3 space of the document with the upper rectangle filled with black and lower rectangle filled with white.
2. Open the blending styles and select gradient overlay for the upper black rectangle :
    a.  blend mode-normal , opacity -100 , style -linear , angle-90 , color - 4c725d to 182c2d
   Open the gradient overlay blending style for lower rectangle :
    a.  blend mode-normal , opacity -100 , style -linear , angle-90 , color - 070b14 to 233634
3. Create a new layer and go to filter->render->clouds and then go to filter->blur->box blur and set radius to 12px . Open the curves adjustment style and change input to 174 and output to 155 and change the layer style to screen . Open the transform tool and stretch out the clouds horizontally and narrow in vertically so that they are visible only in the upper rectangle.
4. Make a copy of this layer and open the levels window and enter following parameters ( 94, 0.60 , 240 )
5. Create a new layer and using polygonal lasso tool create a hilly area on the land surface and fill it with black. Create a new layer and using a preset brush paint some grass on top of the hilly area. Place images of various trees and people on the hilly area and select color overlay style blending option and change the color to black.
6. Create a new layer and using star brush tool , paint some stars in the sky .
7. Create a new layer and using the ellipse tool and draw a circle in the sky . Again draw another circle while pressing alt key inside the first circle to create a crescent shape and fill it with #f9f2ac. Open inner shadow blending style :
    a. Inner shadow ( blend mode-normal , opacity -75, angle-120 , distance-11 , size-9 )
8. Select all the layers and place them in a group and duplicate the group and merge all the layers in the group. Using the transform tool , flip the duplicate layer vertically and delete some the bottom part of the duplicate layer with eraser tool.
9. Using ripple filter distort the layers in duplicate layer to create a ripple like effect in water . Reduce the fill for the group to around 25%.

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