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Even though this scene is still scary because we have the fog and the rain and we made it a more of a night time scene then it was before we can still make it even worse by adding more foreboding shadows. So I am create a new layer and I'm gonna call it shadows and what I am gonna do at this point is I'm gonna just polygonal lasso tool, I'm gonna draw out my own shadows that are going to stretch pretty far into this scene. And what I am gonna do is double click to close that shape, hold down the shift key and just manually draw more shadows. I'm even gonna have some going across these logs or rather this log. Because one thing about the woods is it's so disorienting is the amount of sameness, the amount of shadows everywhere. The amount, no matter which way you look it looks like where you just come from so I want to really just add a whole bunch of fingers of, of woods and trees everywhere in this scene and we are going to double click and close those shapes and just add shapes going across the logs and of course everything. And just take your time, you can even draw outside the boundaries of the document. And I am going to also make another shadow of for the shack itself, so I'm gonna just trace over this wood here, this log and add a shadow for that. And I'm just gonna put even the hint of other things in this uh scene, like trees we can't see and that's really what the shadows are going to uh do for us. We already see shadows from the actual photography itself but one of the illusions that you want to have in some images is that there's something else, there is something that's not in camera. And that's where this can really come in handy for you. So I'm going to just draw these massive tree trunk shadows because they are what the camera didn't get because they are so far in the distance. But they effecting the scene in a tremendous way so once again I'm just gonna have things around the woods. I'm gonna draw these shadows back here as well. And now that we have these shapes and of course you can continue to add as many as you like, what we are going to do now is fill them in with black. So we can go to edit, we can go to fill and we'll choose a foreground color and what I'm going to do is deselect those and then I'm going to fill them in with a gaussian blur. So we are gonna get blur, we are gonna choose gaussian blur and we are just gonna do something like that. We are gonna have the blur at about 18 pixels or whatever you're comfortable with. And want darker shadows, use uh a lower percentage you want more subtle shadows make it higher. So I'm gonna go with about 16 to 18 pixels and I'll select ok. Now I'll drop the opacity down even further just to show that there's something there. Now what we have to do in this image is rearrange our layers so everything looks like it belongs together. So I'm gonna grab my overlay copy which is the blue that's going to give us this color tint. I'm gonna drag it to the very top of everything. So the rain is affected by it, the shadows are affected by it and else that's under here is affected by it. And now just because of that one move this whole scene comes together, everything is affected by this, this blue wash. So once again let me hide that and show you the difference. This is what we started with, I'll go ahead and get rid of all of these effects. And we are left with the original image of the woods, our shack, our water, the shadows, the smog and rain and finally this overlay to give us this final composite which is the creepy woods and someplace you just don't want to run into while your just going on your normal hike. So I hope you enjoy this project, feel free to add wildlife to it, add some glows and blurs and all kinds of other effects. Add lightening if you so desire, just have a good time with Photoshop, don't forget guys every once in a while create another back up set of your layers. Always save a copy of your work as your working increments so if your working on creepy woods make this creepy woods two, creepy woods three so on and so forth so you can always go back a little bit instead of having to start from scratch if your computer crashes on you.