In this tutorial, we will be using several basic tools and stock images to create a fantasy artwork where everything seems to come alive from what is being painted on an old piece of paper. Let's get working!
How to Create an Imaginative, Magical Painted Scene
May 29th in Illustration, Photo Effects by Johnson Koh
Editorial Note: this tutorial is influenced by the work Afterlife by Maciej Mizer.
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Preparation
Before you start take a look at the images we'll be using: Paper Texture from Bashcorpo, Sky from Neoikeia, Paint Brushes from Nyssi, Tree from WolfC Stock, Stroke Brush Set from FlightOfGrey, Toucan from sxc, Airplane from sxc, and Hand holding brush from sxc.
Step 1
Create a document with size 827px by 1169px. Download the Paper Texture from Bashcorpo and resize it to fit into the document.
Step 2
Then we will need an image of a cloudy sky. I found a pretty one sky image by Neoikeia. Resize the sky image and place it at the center of the document. Use Lasso Tool to draw an irregular selection as shown.
Go to Select > Modify > Feather. Set the Feather Radius to 30px. Follow by Select > Inverse then press Delete. Duplicate twice for this sky image as we will be using them later. Rename the sky layers (from bottom up) as "Sky 1," "Sky 2" and "Sky 3" respectively. Hide "Sky 2" and "Sky 3" for now.
Step 3
Select the "Sky 1" layer, go to Image > Adjustments > Desaturate. Then follow by Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation. Check on Colorize. Set the Hue to 30, Saturation to 20 and Lightness to 30. Go to Filter > Brush Strokes > Crosshatch. Set the Stroke Length to 50, Sharpness to 20 and Strength to 1. Set the Blend Mode of this layer to Linear Burn.
Step 4
Unhide the "Sky 3" layer. Go to Filter > Stylize > Glowing Edges. Then follow by Image > Adjustments > Desaturate. Set the Blend Mode of this layer to Multiply.
Step 5
Unhide the "Sky 2" layer. Create a Layer Mask on the "Sky 2" layer. Fill the mask with black. Download the Paint Brushes from Nyssi. Set the foreground color to white. Using the brushes downloaded, paint the layer mask to reveal part of the sky image. Then go to Filter > Paint Daubs. Set the Brush Size to 5, Sharpness to 7 and Brush Type to Simple.
Step 6
Let's proceed on to the tree. Download the tree image made by WolfC Stock. Extract the tree away from its background using the Extract Tool (Click here for other methods of extraction). Position it as shown. Go to Filter > Blur > Smart Blur. Set the Radius to 3 and Threshold to 10.
Step 7
Duplicate the tree image three times, and rename the four layers (from bottom up) as "Painted Tree," "Blurred Tree," "Inverted Tree," and "Outline Tree." We will get on to them one by one now. Select the "Inverted Tree" layer, go to Image > Adjustments > Invert.
Step 8
Set the Blend Mode of the "Inverted Tree" layer to Color Dodge. Using the Brush Tool (set the color to black, size to 200, and Opacity to 40%), paint over the inverted tree and you will add the highlight.
Select the "Outline Tree" layer, go to Filter > Stylize > Glowing Edges, then Image > Adjustments > Desaturate ,and follow by Image > Adjustments > Invert. Set the Blend Mode of the "Outline Tree" layer to Multiply.
Step 9
Now hide the "Blurred Tree," "Inverted Tree," and "Outline Tree" layers. Select the "Painted Tree" layer and go to Image > Adjustments > Desaturate. Then Filter > Brush Strokes > Cross Hatch. Set the Stroke Length to 20, Sharpness to 20, and Strength to 1. Follow by Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation, and Check on Colorize. Set the Hue to 30, Saturation to 20 and Lightness to 30.
Step 10
Unhide all the tree layers and create a group folder. Place the "Outline Tree," "Inverted Tree," and "Blurred Tree" layers into the folder. Select the folder and create a Layer Mask. Fill the layer mask with black. Using the paint brushes downloaded earlier, paint the layer mask to reveal part of the tree image.
Step 11
Create a new layer and name it as "Tree Stroke." Download the Stroke Brush Set from FlightOfGrey. Select the last brush of the set and paint it with #22130D at the end of the tree trunk.
Step 12
Create a new layer behind the tree layers and name it "Tree Splatter." Place several splattered green paints around the trunk area.
Step 13
Download several stock images from sxc.hu. For this tutorial, I have hot air balloon 1, hot air balloon 2, plane, crane, and seagulls. Place them around the left side of the document.
Go to Select > Adjustments > Desaturate. Then Filter > Brush Strokes > Cross Hatch. Set the Stroke Length to 20, Sharpness to 20 and Strength to 1. Follow by Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation, and Check on Colorize. Set the Hue to 30, Saturation to 20, and Lightness to 30. Set the Blend Mode of these layers to Linear Burn.
Step 14
Extract another hot air balloon and place it above all the other layers. Right-click on the hot air balloon layer and choose Blending Option. Check on Drop Shadow. Set the Blend Mode to Multiply, Color to black, Opacity to 20%, Angle to 90, Distance to 80, Spread to 0, Size to 5 and leave the rest as default.
Step 15
Repeat Step 14 for the crane.
Step 16
Download a Toucan from sxc.hu. Extract the toucan out from its background and position it as shown.
Step 17
Using one of the paint brushes downloaded earlier, place black splattered paint at the bottom of the toucan.
Step 18
Create a Layer Mask on the "Toucan" layer, use the Brush Tool with a black color to reveal some of the leaves behind.
Step 19
Download an airplane from sxc.hu. Extract the plane from its background and position it the way shown below.
Step 20
Duplicate the "Plane" layer. Select the "bottom plane" layer and go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur. Set the Angle to 90 and Distance to 20. Move the blurred plane slightly to its left.
Step 21
Create a new layer and name it "Line." Using the Pen Tool, draw a path as shown below.
Step 22
Select the Brush Tool, set the size to 3px and color to #C83926. Right-click on the path you have drawn earlier, and choose Stroke Path. Check on Simulate Pressure and Type to Brush.
Step 23
Repeat Step 22 for a few more lines with different colors.
Step 24
Duplicate the original "Plane" layer. Select the duplicated plane and go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation. Set the Lightness to 0, then go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur, and set the radius to 10px. Follow by Edit > Free Transform. Resize the plane shadow and move it under the original plane. Set the Opacity of this layer to 40%.
Step 25
Repeat Steps 19 to 24 for a colorful kite at the right side of the tree.
Step 26
Download an image of a hand holding brush from sxc.hu. Extract the hand and brush from their background and position it the way shown in the diagram.
Step 27
Duplicate the "Hand" layer. Select the duplicated hand and go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation. Set the Lightness to 0, then go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and set the radius to 10px. Now go to Edit > Free Transform. Rotate the shadow slightly so the two tips of the brushes meet.
Step 28
Create a new layer above the brush. Place a small drop of paint at the tip of the brush with color #251A10. Right-click on this layer and choose Blending Options. Check on Bevel and Emboss. Set the Depth to 1, Size to 5, Angle to 165, Highlight Opacity to 30, and leave the rest as default.
Step 29
Create a new layer above the plane. Using the Lasso Tool, draw an irregular selection around the plane.
Step 30
With the selection, go to Select > Modify > Feather. Set the Feather Radius to 30px. Then go to Filter > Render > Clouds. Set the Blend Mode of this layer to Hard Light.
Step 31
Create one last new layer. Select the Brush Tool, pick the default Star 33 pixels brush and open up the Brush Palette. In the palette, check on Shape Dynamics. Set the Size Jitter to 100 and Minimum Diameter to 0
Conclusion
The final image is below. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and I look forward to seeing your results!
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User Comments
( ADD YOURS )massafakka May 29th
lol first!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!i made it haHAHAAHAHAHAHAHa
well good work i like it alot ^^thx
btw: FIRST!!!!
( )29factory May 29th
what kind of comment is that?
nonetheless – i love the job you’ve done on the background! blending of the clouds is pretty sweet! good tutorial, thx.
( )Liam McCabe May 29th
idiot
( )Davey May 29th
yep
lawrence77 May 29th
Don’t hurt others by comments….
Its his wish to comment….
wyeko May 29th
true
Craigsnedeker May 29th
Good point Lawrence
Dullface May 29th
Yes it’s his wish to comment, it is however also his wish to make a fool of himself. Seems like it was intentional to make an idiot of himself in this case, he just wants the attention, and he got it!
Rafi May 30th
word on “idiot”
vnz May 29th
realy idiot …
( )arnold 'C May 29th
im laughing right now!
( )Phenotype May 29th
I’ve never understood the point of posting “First!” on blogs. Why would anyone care about having the first comment and why would you think we care? Personally I think they should just block all “First!” posts.
Beyond that, I really like this tutorial, it’s straight-forward and concise. Great result!
( )Edward May 29th
Pretend the blog is a distant planet. Wuoldn’t you want to shout first! too?
Too bad it’s not though. :[
sriganesh May 30th
YOU ARE WRONG PHENOTYPE. HIS WISJ AND HE LIKE TO BE FIRST. AND U SHOULD NOTICE HE HAS READ THE TUTS AND COMMENT FIRST. HE IS FOLLOWING REGULARLY.
U CAN JUDGE ANYONE BY SIMPLY SEEING HIS COMMENTS.
Ani May 29th
All these ‘forum kids’ who think it’s cool to spam comments with ‘first’, ’second’ and ‘third’ rubbish should be warned and banned, if they continue. It’s just pointless. It adds nothing to these articles other than mindless spam – it also makes the people who do it look like a total moron with no life.
Sorry for the rant, but this crap is getting out of control now. This is not a ‘gaymer’ forum
( )Dullface May 30th
Totally agreed, block the “first posts”.
Lee May 30th
I’m sorry but this is a serious misconception. There’s absolutely no reason why you would correlate a person posting that he has the first post on a blog comment section to a “forum kid” given that the “‘first’, ’second’ and ‘third’” rubbish is entirely nonexistent in a forum community.
Ani May 31st
The point of the issue, is that this type of rubbish should not be allowed here. People come here to read the tutorials and see what other people have to say about them. If you, or anyone else come here just to spam pointless crap, or to defend those who do, should really take one good look at the reasons why you did it. Nobody finds it clever, nobody finds it interesting, people find it annoying and pathetic.
Gamer forums are full of annoying kids, who post crap like this. The term ‘forum kid’ is often used as it’s mainly kids that do it and mainly on forums. It’s one of the only places that tolerate it. Considering a number of people actually pay for PSDTUTS+ myself included, don’t really approve of this kind of crap and it should be removed instantly and people who persist in their OMG FIRSTS!!!111!!111234 LOOL SECOND!!! THIRRRDDS!!!! and all the other ‘1337′ kid crap should be warned and banned.
underdog May 30th
oh my god
( )Mihael Ellinsworth May 31st
We never start the flame war… (note on youtube.com)
( )Liam McCabe May 29th
…
Awesome tutorial man. I really like the style
( )T-Law May 29th
That’s amazing tutorial, thanks.
( )Jmags May 29th
This looks like the coolest tutorial by far but it’s missing a lot of steps and Didnt explain it well enough
( )dk June 12th
I agree, and if you follow some of the filters according to the settings provided here, you don’t get anything like the images in the tutorial…
( )bayostheave June 14th
This is definitely a great image. I agree that the steps were not well explained. I started with the 1st step duplicating the sky image & it’s not clear at all. Do anyone know how to explain steps 2-5 in more detail so i can follow steps & get same results as tutorial? I couldn’t get past the 1st steps & I’m sure there’s more parts of the tutorial that’s very unclear as well.
rariox May 29th
yeah! nice work
( )pezzotto May 29th
amazing tutorial!!!!
( )Roshan Bhattarai May 29th
wow…….Another awesome tutorial
( )Jonathan May 29th
What’s up with the images not displaying on first page load? 50% of the time I have to reload the page for the images to display.
( )Sean Hodge May 29th
Jonathan, that’s weird. I’m not sure what technical reason that would occur. The images are hosted on Amazon S3, which is a good service. Let me know if this happens on other tutorials for you. Thx.
( )sriganesh May 30th
IT HAPPENS FOR ME, IAM USING CHROME AND FIREFOX LATEST ONE.
Alexander May 29th
Are you by any chance using Opera 7.x as a browser? If so, most likely the problem is the browser – when the page is heavy on images, Opera 7.x usually misses half of them in favor of speed (Later versions like 9.x don’t seem to have this behavior). Or it could be a problem in your Internet connection, or just a temporary server issue.
( )Davey May 29th
Awesome article. =)
*saves paper texture to resource folder*
( )Diggydogg May 29th
Outcome is quite nice. But I dont really like those “fantasy-surreal-ink-drop-alice-in-wonderland-everything-is-flying-around” kind of images.
The tutorial isn’t very spectacular, nothing really new. But a nice tutorial for beginners anyway.
( )Craigsnedeker May 29th
Awesome tutorial! Love seeing this kind of stuff.
( )lawrence77 May 29th
Hai Johnson Welcome to PSDTUTS…
A very good tutorial…..
As usual unusual………
( )Johnson Koh May 29th
Thanks pal. You have given great encouragements throughout
( )lawrence77 May 29th
Thanks dude…
I expect more tutorials here….
Digital13 May 29th
Outcome is ok…however, when I think “painted scene” I don’t think of photo manipulations and that’s all this is.
This site needs someone that can do an ACTUAL digital painting, not a photo manip. w/filters
( )Peewee1002 May 29th
Agreed. ^ I would love to see a actual painter on here, doing a good tutorial ^
( )Constantine May 29th
Hey Johnson IMPRESSIVE work!
( )jigga May 29th
amazing. a lot of nice techniques….
( )Maxime May 29th
I reckon this is a tutorial to reproduce Afterlife from mOsk
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Afterlife/98110
It ain’t bad but it quite doesn’t compare to the original,
good job anyway
( )Arik May 29th
I don’t think it’s possible to capture a fully professional composition into a tutorial. It would be far too long. The tut Nik Ainley did came close and that had around 100 steps if I remember correctly.
( )There are two factors that are in the way
1) The tutorial author needs to be the best of the best on an international level if he wants to create a tutorial of extremely high quality
2) You’d have to capture every single step. About 6 months ago I spent two weeks on a composition which involved a ‘robotic’ woman. I generally tend to work for about two days on a piece. This was something that would take way too long to explain.
And I am utter poopoo compared to professionals such as mosk.
Sean Hodge May 29th
While there are numerous differences in these illustrations, I do see some similarities of color choice, placement of some of the stock, and overall look/feel. I’ve added an editorial note to the beginning of this tutorial siting the work “Afterlife,” by Maciej Mizer as an inspiration for this work. I appreciate you mentioning this. The work does have much of it’s own direction as well, and like much work was likely influenced by numerous sources. Thx.
( )wee wee May 30th
Mosk/Maciej Mizer (known as heavily inspired to other artists’ works) and this tutorial are originally idea/produced by hellocolor (pawel nolbert). PLANES, LIQUID LINES, FLYING AROUND ETCCCCC BELONGS TO HELLOCOLOR. STUPID COPIERS!!!!!!!
heres the original artwork BEFOREEEE Mosk and this author’s tutorial… http://www.behance.net/Gallery/The-KDU-Keystone/82728
see i told you..
YOU MUUUSSTT GIVE CREDIT FOR INSPIRED EVEN THE TUTORIALS.
robby May 29th
Glad to see Johnson Koh here on psdtuts! His tutorials are always great and easy to understand. Love his website too.
( )Johnson Koh May 29th
Thanks Robby for your continuous support!
( )Josh May 29th
Sorry, but I really don’t like this. The final outcome just doesn’t look right, the whole thing just looks too artificial.
( )m. gartsman May 29th
now there’s a quick way to make 150 bucks.
( )Arik May 29th
Dear sir,
I’ve noticed your opinion of just about every tutorial is the same. I do not with to argue with you, however if you feel that this website is constantly doing the same then perhaps you may want to educate the general public on how one has to make his 150 dollars.
I trust that you are a very skilled artist who can outdo all of the authors on this website, since you have shown your expertise in your elaborate criticisms.
So sir, please do submit a tutorial and enlighten us with your superior skill.
Alternatively you can of course stop visiting the website if you feel such enormous dis contempt.
Thank you for your understanding.
( )Alex Beltechi May 30th
Touché!
Dullface May 30th
Sold.
Diego SA May 29th
Wonderful! I like the way the things comes to life! Very creative!
( )aMs May 29th
this definetely doesnt look like a ‘painted’ scene to me. it has some small amount of painted elements which aren’t blended correctly.
the outcome looks ok, but lacks some quality, also the colors needs some correction.
keep it up, hope your next works will be even better!
( )Freddy May 29th
I’m just started learning PS and this is fantastic lesson. Thanks for sharing.
( )Jean Cluade Van Damme May 29th
No noticed that it looks waaaaay too much like this? http://mosk.pl/admin/data/upimages/afterlife.jpg
already featured here on psdtuts awhile back …
( )Tony May 29th
This is almost of a copy of this guy http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Afterlife/98110
( )Andre Oliveira May 29th
i’m hopping to see the screencast of this!!
( )Kaam May 29th
A little over 10 Steps, don’t you agree? LOL. Just kidding.
I agree with Tony. Looks very familiar in style to the Afterlife tutorial.
( )bloO May 29th
not impressive, but kinda nice. there’s much room for improvement but again ppl should take what’s new for them, style, tehniques, etc and keep alive the desire to do always something better
@ Tony – there is a saying, the secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources, i believe Enstein said that and this is reason i don’t go further with my comment into what i like and don’t at this tut
peace
( )Matt May 29th
Its kinda hard to extract the tree. I got tons of white between the branches. Any tips?
( )Johnson Koh May 30th
Hi Matt, are you using CS3? Maybe you can try to adjust the levels or contrast to create a higher difference between the tree and its background before using the extract tool.
Hope it helps
( )wee wee May 29th
noob
( )wee wee May 29th
THIS IS STUPID INSPIRED TUTORIAL FROM THE ORIGINAL ARTWORK, THIS AUTHOR WAS HEAVILY INSPIRED. DON’T ASK ME FOR THE LINK, DO YOUR BROWSING!
ALL AUTHORS HERE CREATE TUTORIALS ARE DESPERATE FOR CASH, MOST OF THEM WERE INSPIRED BY THE TALENTED ARTISTS’ ARTWORK. YOU NEED TO USE YOUR OWN STYLE, NOT INSPIRED OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS OR HOW THEY DID IT, IT’S THEIR OWN STYLE.
STUPID COPY-INSPIRED AUTHORS.
( )lawrence77 May 30th
wee wee u you didn’t like inspirations…. why?
We are grown with inspiration only!, by known or unknown…
How u study to walk, eat, speak languages etc., all are come with inspiration only wee wee!
( )So don’t scold with inspiration its all very important
sriganesh May 30th
YES ITS TRUE. EVEN U CAME TO A FIELD OR SOMTHING U LIKE , U SHOULD HAVE A INSPIRATION.
Dullface May 30th
It’s so difficult to take you serious with such caps.
( )wee wee May 30th
INSPIRATION MAKES U FIND SOME IDEAS, IDEAS ARENT YOURS. U NEED TO RESEARCH 1ST AND ON UR OWN!
Mosk/Maciej Mizer (known as heavily inspired to other artists’ works) and this tutorial are originally idea/produced by hellocolor (pawel nolbert). PLANES, LIQUID LINES, FLYING AROUND ETCCCCC BELONGS TO HELLOCOLOR. STUPID COPIERS!!!!!!!
heres the original artwork BEFOREEEE Mosk and this author’s tutorial… http://www.behance.net/Gallery/The-KDU-Keystone/82728
see i told you..
YOU MUUUSSTT GIVE CREDIT FOR INSPIRED EVEN THE TUTORIALS.
Naughty May 30th
I agree with wee wee. You should give someone’s credit, this tutorial was stolen idea by Hellocolor.
Arik May 30th
@ wee wee
I find it hard to determine what came first in the end. There’s a huge amount of work on the web that focuses around a tree with hot air balloons or planes or whatever.
Eventually we’re going to trace digital work back to traditional art, and then we can have fun tracing that back through renaissance influences, down to ancient geek pottery and Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Not done yet though. We can go back to stone age cave drawings.
The point is that it’s hard to find the line between inspiration and plain copying. Everything is copied from one thing or another because our minds are shaped through viewing other works of art…or design…or neither.
Sean Hodge May 30th
All artists are influenced by others. When there is too much influence though from one single source though there is an issue. The more an artists interprets things in there own way, the more unique it will stand.
@ wee wee – I think this is a drastic overstatement, but you’re welcome to your opinion.
@Arik – Good points about influence.
( )Eloi May 31st
Are we here to judge this artist’s inspiration?
Aren’t we here because we’d like to learn some new techniques we can apply in our own artwork?
I’ve learned some new stuff, and I’ve even repeated a pretty similar inspired outcome. That’s how I learn, and that’s why in my opinion this is an excellent tutorial.
@wee wee – you’re kind of hard on this guy who, by the way, is not that close to the artwork you’ve linked. Please recognize it’s a legitimate well written tutorial and the techniques are good. That’s why we read PSDtuts.
( )wee wee June 1st
yes technique here is ok. but similar objects in artwork isnt right. but most tutorials here are influenced by real artists. authors r ‘copier’ / ‘idea stealer’
Melissa June 9th
Their are many people who ‘borrow’ other artists inspirations. Who are you to tell someone not to be inspired by someone else’s work? I see a lot of similar work done on here and other websites, its here to show people technique- maybe some people have never seen the afterlife, or the KDU. Also, is it necessary to use all caps?
( )Aki Fu May 30th
It’s very similar with the Afterlife on the Behance Network. Color, trees, hot air balloon, sky(same effect), background, things around the trees, the plain, etc. The ideas and objects are the same! I think he just replaced the stock photos. Actually it’s nice but when I saw the Afterlife, I’m already disappointed with this.
( )wee wee June 1st
No you ARE wrong. The afterlife (created by mosk) was COPIED from thekdu artwork, created by hellocolor. Look at the date who first created….
( )Sveatoslav May 30th
amazing. a lot of nice techniques….
( )Nemanjamilo May 30th
Nice ! Love it !
( )underdog May 30th
great….let me try try….thx Johnson Koh….
( )Tomas Sinkunas May 30th
If that’s a copy – I personally don’t give a shit about it. As long as it teaches some new techniques – I’m good with tutorial. I am not familiar with that Afterlife stuff, but this tutorial inspires me, even though I am not PS guru.
Johnson, I indeed enjoy your tut. Thanks man.
( )haha June 1st
wow you dont have eye details. lol
( )Ani Samuels May 30th
nice tut, i love all your tuts thanks
( )sriganesh May 30th
PERSONALLY I LIKE IT VERY MUCH AND I AM EXCEPTING LIKE THIS IN FUTURE. KEEP GOING.
( )Michael May 30th
Yeah, maybe it isnt very original but results are pretty nice.
I like it
( )jessa May 30th
hahaha..happy to see you in psdtuts..lol..i saw the pic but didn’t realize it was you who wrote the tutorial.
( )bl4nk May 31st
nice tutorial and great outcome (:
( )Julia May 31st
Can you help me? When I apply Glowing Edges and then change blending mode on multiply in the fourth step I recieve a black spot.
( )misterbremer June 1st
Did you desaturate and invert the layer?
( )Julia June 1st
Thanks. I forgot to invert the layer.
Cyberpunk Studio May 31st
Wow cool tutorial
Keep up the good work guys
( )Andreas May 31st
Nice tut! Agree with 29factory. The blending of the clouds is nice!
The complaining who “first” in the first comment is taking up more space than the one commen it self… better just leave it be.. then it’s not fun for the ones who are dong it either..
( )Andreas May 31st
sry… forgot a couple of words and misspelled :s
*about who wrote “first”…
( )App13 May 31st
Paper background: Check
Photo of clouds: Check
Blending together a whole bunch of semi related pictures: Check
Lets get some originality back on this site.
( )RemingtonM June 1st
This is really cool, I’m going to try to use some of the techiniques in a project I’m working on.
( )CgBaran Tuts June 1st
Nice tutorial thanks
( )Eric Shafer June 1st
I love these tutorials, thanks!
Featured here: http://www.presidiacreative.com/web-picks-23/
( )RemingtonM June 1st
I still like this tutorial a lot, but I do think that its a copy. I, like someone else above me, was pretty dissapointed when I saw a pic of the original in one of the links above. I’m glad that it was made into a tutorial becuase I’m learning a lot, but A LOT more credit should have been given to the original.
( )Stefanie June 1st
Intense feedback…. back to the actual tutorial though, i am having a few problems… At step four, i was having the black spot problem as well, so i inverted the layer as suggested, but with step 3, after i applied the cross-hatching effect…well my Step 3 doesnt look like your step 3, is there something i am missing?
By the way, i think your tutorial is sweet…
( )Anderrew June 2nd
Am I the only one who can see a faint picture in the paper texture?
( )Eddy June 2nd
Very nice tutorial and a good inspiration. Thanx
( )reuber1 June 2nd
What the hell? I’m already stuck at step mother-f’ing four. Doing glowing edges gives me what looks like a photo negative of the clouds, and setting the blend mode to multiply gives me NOTHING like the Step 4 picture.
( )Alex June 4th
Great effect in 3 step, thanks!
( )Felix June 5th
I don’t know if it is just me, but these tuts outcomes have been getting uglier and uglier. Especially that steampunk one. This teaches you some great skills, but the piece was so butchered it didn’t matter.
( )rory June 5th
Ohhh…
This is a lovely final image, such a great use of layers. Together they build a really stunning piece of art, well done Johnson, nice step by step tutorial too.
( )Pokhy June 5th
Great tuto!!!
This is my version: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3332/3597950041_2530e3c669_b.jpg
Regards!
( )Greg June 5th
Nice tut, however many steps are missing and i cant seem to be getting past 4. I end up with a black spot where the clouds are supposed to be details such as brush opacities used and the order of how you arranged your layers are also missing. I would appreciate a thorough rewrite/adding of some steos to make it easier. Any wayz keep up the good work.
( )Greg June 5th
I have a good idea for this site, why dont you guys add a suggestion box where people can suggest some ideas for PS pros to create works and tutorials for. for example; if someone suggests learning how to put another persons face on a photo of the mona lisa and have it manipulated, a proffesional could create a piece of art accordingly if many website viewers voye for such and idea.. just a thought.
( )John Holt June 6th
Great Tutorial Johnson. It is concise and easy to follow. And the outcome is a beautiful piece. What else could anyone ask of a tutorial?
( )Let's Browse June 9th
Nice use of the stocks! But the paintbrush looks a bit weird…
( )Melissa June 9th
Awesome Tut… Thank You!
( )robertoblake June 23rd
Great job on this, nice tutorial thanks for posting
( )Ranendranath July 13th
Dear John Koh,
( )Refer your tutorial ” How to Create an Imaginative, magical Painted Scene” Followed step 6 & 7 fully. Step 7 not giving result. I got purple image of tree. But applying Color Dodge, I am getting white flat image of the tree. On applying Brush, only a bit blue tinge revealing. Please advise.
I am using Photoshop CS4.
Frank September 8th
The flat white bit is correct. I just finished this step, and if you paint over it (make sure ur using black), the tree should disappear. By making it 40% opacity, a bit remains, making ur original tree a bit brighter.
( )Chirag Vadgama July 20th
The tutorial does not give the desired results…In face in step 4 and 5 don’t produce the results at all.
( )Robin Crandall July 27th
“Sub sole nihil novi est” That’s Latin for “There’s nothing new under the Sun” The Bible makes the same claim in Ecclesiastes, Shakespeare said it, etc. Listen to the old Bluesmen and listen to your modern rockers, you will detect many similarities. Its a different take on the same old tune. However, something could be made over how different.
( )I haven’t tried many of these techniques… so I like this tutorial. It is useful to me. What if I also like trees and airplanes? I find a different tree and a different airplane and compose my work differently. Maybe it will be night or the tree will sprout from the ocean. Maybe an underwater tree with a submarine? The techniques are still useful! Therefore so is the tutorial.
choen August 6th
i love that, thanks
( )Albin August 27th
hai
( )It looks different. but it should be conceptional.
Frank September 8th
Is it just me, or is this tutorial missing an entire step. Around step 8, where it tells you to make a copy of the tree called ‘Blurred Tree’, a mysterious pink glow comes up in the pictures, but the tutorial doesn’t actually tell you to do anything with the blurred tree. It just says to hide it, put it in a group etc.
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