Learning Photoshop

[ravenpolar]

Thanks for the advice on the trees Michaelk. Just tried it quickly and it seems to make them look much better.
I do already work with lots of layers, coming from a CC2/CC3 background layers are one on the things that I always over use, rather than not. Makes life so much easier in the long run.

I'll try to find a picture for the trees that better fits the prospective as well and see how that works out.

[Midgardsormr]

Something to watch out for is the orientation of your buildings. It's very easy when using a square brush for all of your buildings to be strictly oriented to the compass, but likely they wouldn't be. If you want to just add some random rotation, open your Brushes palette (F5) and under Brush Dynamics, turn up the Angle Jitter.

If you want the buildings oriented to the street, I think you have to put each building on its own layer and rotate them by hand before merging down. There may be a way to get the rotation to follow a path, but I haven't divined how to do it yet.