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What we're gonna do here is bring in the lake and keep in mind that since we're in the deep woods and this cabin is abandoned that the lake would look a little bit more realistic if it too were stagnant and dead. So we're not gonna make the lake look too vibrant. So I'm gonna go to the window menu, I'm gonna grab the lake and as you see I already have it selected so select all and press command or control C to copy and we'll go back to our other image and let's go ahead and paste this now into its own layer which it will do by default. So press command or control V and once again if the profiles don't match, not a problem for this composite and here is our lake. Now what we're gonna do is double click and rename this layer lake. I like to stay extremely organized when I'm working. Now let's also increase the size of this by pressing command or control T and lets just go ahead and scale it up a little bit so it takes up more room in this image and I'm really gonna just pull the lake all the way down. I'm not really worried too much about the distortion because we're gonna add rain and fog in this image as well. So I'm gonna just increase the size of this all around and double click and what I'm gonna do at this point is I'm gonna drop the opacity down just like we did with the cabin so I can see where to apply our layer mask. I want the lake to be around this region here. So let's add a layer mask. Let's grab a pretty large brush and brush away a lot of the background so I have a gigantic brush, 300 pixels, so I don't waste time getting rid of a lot of the information that I don't want in this image. And once again just take you time and make these massive strokes at first and then we'll reduce the size of the brush to work on the details of the lake itself as to where we'd like it to flow. So I'm gonna reduce the brush size and I'm going to paint away the area near the log and then I'm gonna determine where I'd like the water to uh start and then end in the distance. So I'm looking at this image and I think I'll have some of the water back here and near the log and then I'm gonna have some of it around here like this. Now I know that the shoreline doesn't look realistic at first but we're gonna add another gradient and determine where its going to flow and start to fade away into the uh foreground. So once again let's grab our gradient tool, as you see here I have it set to uh the foreground color to transparent and I'm gonna click my mouse and start to pull away some of those uh foreground elements until the water is kind of fading. If you go to far just undo that and just take your time and try to get this thing to look like it belongs in this environment a little bit. And once again we're going for a stagnant look. If you go too far just grab your brush and paint those details back in there by pressing uh x on the keyboard and paint back to white to pull back some of the water that you'd like to get back into the image. So now I have the lake, what I'm gonna do is click on the lake now and to make sure I'm on this layer. I'll put the opacity back up to a hundred percent and I'm gonna drive it down a little bit more so we can actually see some of the elements underneath it like the rocks and that kind of thing. And the lake once again is going to be stagnant so now is a good time to play around with some of the blend modes and see if anything looks a little bit better, something like overlay perhaps, which doesn't look good, soft light and once again just experiment. That's the, the beauty of working in Photoshop, you never know what's gonna look good, what's gonna look bad and what might just look the best is normal and uh drop, drop the opacity down. Now as I said before the lake is a little stagnant, but we're gonna fix that up by adding a couple of highlights on a separate layer. So I'm going to continue to paint away some of this lake and get the water to flow exactly where I'd like it to be and I'm gonna play around just a little bit more and then we're going to add the highlights to make the lake look a little bit more alive in the next part.
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33782 |
| ISBN: | 1-933736-98-4 |
| Release Date: | 2007-08-02 |
| Duration: | 9 hrs / 161 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |