Set the blending of this cloud layer to screen at 35% opacity. Give this gradient layer a layer mask and mask the red marked part of the gradient as shown in the screenshot:Īdd another stock cloud image to the document to add more cloud texture. Set the gradient layer to soft light blending with opacity of 68%. Fill the new layer with gradient by clicking the top of the document, holding and dragging down to the bottom. Set the color of the gradient as the ones shown in the screenshot. Activate gradient tool and create a gradient color on this new layer. Scale its size to fit the background.Ĭreate a new layer (Shift+Ctrl+N) above the cloud texture layer. Then, hit Ctrl+J to duplicate the selection into a new single layer.Īdd the cloud texture to the background of the scene. Activate the rectungular marquee tool and select the cloud part of the image by clicking, holding and dragging the tool on the cloud part. In this step we will add cloud texture to the background. Arrange its size a bit and position so it does not look uniform.įinally, reduce the opacity of each mountain layer to just 10%. Mask the entire sky background of the image by stroking black color to the background.ĭuplicate (Ctrl+J) the masked mountain layer and place the duplicate to the other side of the scene. Click the layer mask icon in the layer panel to give the mountain layer a layer mask marked by a white thumbnail next to the layer. We will mask the background of the mountain image to hide it and just the mountain part is just revealed. The result should look like the one here: Scale the size of the image by press Shift key on the keyboard while clicking, holding and dragging one of the dragging point.
Hit Ctrl+T to activate free transform tool.
Mask the unneeded part of the duplication layer to make it well blended: Scale the sizes and arrange their positions like the one shown in the screenshot: Place the cropped in front of the original layer. Use lasso tool to select the part and then hit Ctrl+J to duplicate the selection into a new single layer.
Please see the screenshot to find out the parts to be masked (marked in red arrows). Make sure to use spatter brush for this purpose. Then, mask the unwanted part and top most edges of the grass land.
Follow the screenshot below for the setting of the blur: Then, go to filter > blur > surface blur. With free transform tool (T), scale its size to fit the canvas. Place the extracted grass land to the new document. Use pen magic wand tool to select the background and when the backround is selected, hit Del to clean it out Open the grass land stock picture and extract the land from its background. Arrange its position as the result below:Ĭreate a new document (Ctrl+N) with size of 1600px wide and 1808px high. Mask unneeded part of the tree image.ĭuplicate (Ctrl+J) the tree image, scale its size down a bit and place the duplication behind the castle. Give the tree layer a layer mask by clicking the mask icon located in the layer panel. Open the tree stock image in the document, place the image behind the tree. Open the castle stock image in the document. Create a new document in photoshop with size of 1600 px wide and 1800 px high.
Make sure we have downloaded all the stock images needed. Let us start by preparing the objects of the scene we are going to create.