How To Create A Beautiful Sunset Over A Hill - Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you how to use a series of images to make a beautiful, sunset over a hill. We will also add an old abandoned boat to increase the atmosphere. This is a tutorial guided for beginners or intermediate Photoshop followers. We'll be using the following tools:

* Transform Tool.
* Burn and Dodge Tool.
* Clone Stamp Tool.
* Smudge Tool.

Let's begin.


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Step 1

We'll start downloading a beautiful pic of a sunset, provided by Lelaina, a member, and a Pxleyes mod. Here is the link, to dowload a High Resolution, Full size, picture.

http://www.pxleyes.com/images/users/L/Lelaina/474/fullsize/4a6f3af243089.jpg

When you download the picture, save it in your pictures folder, and give it a name.

Reduce the image size to: 1280 X 960 px. Resolution 72 or 100. This will be up to you.

Working with a higher resolution, gives your image a better quality, but the file, will also be bigger in size.


Step 2

Below is the picture you just downloaded.

Name the layer, "Sunset".


Step 3

Edit - Transform - Flip Horizontal.

We want the sun on the left side of the picture.


Step 4

We'll hide the part of the roof that is on the left side of the image.

Ctrl + T (To Transform the image).

Select the middle left handle from the Transform box. Pull the handle to the left until the part of the roof is hidden.


Step 5

Open layer, "Sunset".

Move the image a little to the top. Use the Move tool (V).


Step 6

This is the image we'll use to make the hill.

The image was provided by pxleyes, for a contest. To download this image:

Click over the image with the right side of your mouse.

Save Image As. When window appears.

Save the image in your pictures folder, and give the file a name. "Hair".


Step 7

Bring up the image of "Hair" that you just downloaded.

Place the imge on top of layer, "Sunset".

To make the image of "Hair" smaller, use the Ctrl + T (Free Transform Tool).


Step 8

Use the Polygonal Lasso Tool (L), to make some selections of the layer, "Hair".

Copy (Ctrl + C) and Paste (Ctrl + V), the selections.

Do not name your layers. Merge your layers with copies of "Hair", down, to form only one layer. Name it, "Hill".


Step 9

We'll use the Clone Stamp Tool (S).

Use a 100 px soft brush, and opacity set to 100.

Start cloning, areas back and forth. Your cloning does not have to be perfect, as we will be using the Smudge Tool (R), to blend the area.

Use the Eraser Tool (E), to erase the edges, to give the image the idea of being a hill.


Step 10

Make a copy of this layer, and name it "Hair 2". As we'll be working over layer "Hill", hide layer, "Hair 2". Click over the eye located at the left side of this layer, to make it "Invisible".

Use the Smudge Tool (R).

A 45 px soft brush, and a strength of 45%.

Start smudging over the hair to the left side.DO NOT make horizontal strokes, instead, make it kind of wavy, following the curves, lines, and texture of the hair.


Step 11

After you are done smudging. Add some noise.

Filter - Noise - Add Noise.

Amount of 5.00. Uniform.


Step 12

Image - Adjustments - Curves.

Input: 190.

Output: 175.

The idea of using Curves here, is to darken the look of the hill.


Step 13

This image of the old boat, was provided by Paulus62, member of pxleyes. Thank you Paulus62.

To download a Medium Size of this picture, go to the following link.

http://www.pxleyes.com/picture/2337/4a3ecd781ea64.html

There, you will find other link, to download a High Resolution image.

Save your download in your pictures folder, and give it a name. "Boat".


Step 14

Here is the picture of your "Boat".


Step 15

Use the Polygonal Lasso Tool (L). Make a selection around the boat, as shown in image.


Step 16

Copy ( Ctrl + C) and Paste ( Ctrl + V ), selection.

The selction will be pastes in a new layer, name it, "Boat".


Step 17

Use the Eraser Tool (E), to erase the areas "outside the boat's shape".

Be careful not to erase, inside the boat edges. Just get rid of the grass.


Step 18

Your image should look like this. We'll do some cloning over areas we do not want to be shown.


Step 19

To do the cloning.

Use the Clone Stamp Tool (S).

Press down letter (S) on your keyboard. Hold Alt, and click over an area you want to clone. I selected the area closer to the mooring post.

I used a 35 px, soft brush, and opacity of 100%.

Start cloning the area to cover the mooring post. Use the texture and color closer to it.


Step 20

Here is the cloned image, without the mooring post.


Step 21

Do the same for the green areas, there where the grass is. Do not worry about leaving, some green spots at the bottom of boat. We'll work on that later. Do not forget to clean the green area out of the little window.


Step 22

After the cloning of the boat is done, do the following:

Edit - Transform - Flip Horizontal.

We'll work on some highlights, darkening the boat, and masking some areas at the bottom.

To hide layer "Boat", click over the eye, located to the left side of layer, "Boat", to make it "Invisible".


Step 23

Open layer, "Boat", and place it on top of layers, "Hill" and "Sunset".


Step 24

Open layer, "Hair 2", and place it on top of layer "Hill".

Set the Layer Blending Mode to Overlay.

Opacity of 70%.

Layer "Boat", has to be on top of all layers.

Merge down layer, "Hair 2" to form a single layer. Name it, "Hill".


Step 25

Use a Layer Mask, to mask the bottom of the boat.

I used a 35 px soft brush, and an opacity of 50%.


Step 26

To darken the boat.

Image - Adjustments - Curves.

Input: 80.

Output: 35.

To darken areas to the right side of the boat. Use the Burn Tool (O).

Soft 35 px brush.


Step 27

Use the Dodge Tool (O), to give some highlights to the boat. As you can see, the boat has already some highlights from original image. We'll add a little touch of light to it.

Use a 35 px soft brush, and a exposure of 30%.


Step 28

Use the Dodge and Burn Tools (O) to give highlights and shadows to the hill.

Follow directions given over image.


Step 29

To give a shadow to the boat. Duplicate layer, "Boat" name this new layer, "Shadow", and place it underneath layer, "Boat".

Hold Ctrl and click over layer "Shadow" to select it.

Fill selection with black.

Layer Blending Mode to Multiply.

Opacity of 80%.

Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur. Amount 4.0


Step 30

Use a 20 px soft brush, and opacity of 25%, to give a little touch of yellow, to the top of the boat.


Step 31

We reached the end of the tutorial. I appreciate your patience and dedication, to follow me this time, in the creation of this beautiful sunset. I thank Lelaina, Paulus62 and pxleyes, for providing me with the pics for my inspiration.

I hope you learned something. For you "Beginners", never get disappointed, make mistakes, correct them, look at other's work, ask, and always learn. For "Intermediates", continue learning, and also for "Advanced", teach us a better way to make our work look nice.

Thank you and good luck through the path of ART.



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