Landscape for Fun

[kalmarjan]

Nothing really special about what I am going to create. I just recieved my new PhCS3, so I am practising a little here. Of interest here is the new smart filters function. At last, non destructive filtering editing.

I will update the picture as I am working on it.

Steps so far:

1) Draw out coastline with Wacom Pen.
2) Make a selection of the line, and make a new layer.
3) Invert the selection, fill with gradient of light blue, dark blue.
4) Make selection of water layer, invert selection, paint green.
5) Convert water layer into smart object
6) Apply smart filter to the water layer. Ocean Ripple (I forgot the settings)
7) Set the blending mode to color dodge, apply a level adjustment layer to this
Play with the levels until it looks right.
9) Lower opacity of layer to 65%
10) Copy the Water layer to seperate layer.
11) Drop fill to 0%, apply layer effects: Outer Shadow, Inner Glow (With the sawtooth profile applied to get the double lines.) Add noise to outer Shadow to get the "beachlike effect".
12) Set the color of the inner glow to gradient, and play with the opacities of that until I get what I like.
13) Scale back the layer transparency so it is not so in the forefront, about 80%


C&C welcome.

Sandeman