Create a Scenic Landscape Composition in Photoshop Part-2

Create a Scenic Landscape Composition in Photoshop Part-2

Step 11

Go back to left side of image and paste "small trees" stock here, resize it (Command/Ctrl + T) and go for Color balance (Command/Ctrl + B) and select settings: and brightness + 73 in "Brightness/Contrast" window. Then do some erasing job around tree so finally it looks like this:

Step 12

Use "Crop Tool" and resize our document, then hit Command/Ctrl + T and resize cliff layer to hide empty space on the top of document. Simply stretch it upwards to make it higher.

Step 13

Erase some unnecessary parts on layer with trees.

Step 14

Paste our "ocean" stock on right side and use following settings for Brightness/Contrast to roughly blend it with our image. Hit Command/Ctrl + B and select values for "Midtones" and for "Highlights".

Step 15

Open up "Liquify filter" (Shift + Ctrl + X) on girl layer and warp her lips upwards, also move her ear upwards to make it look like an Elven ear.

Step 16

Add a mask on layer with cliff and basically erase it in half, then lighten up edges of it by drawing strokes of brown color ("3e1d0a") on new layer with “Linear Dodge (Add)” blending setting, so It will look like this:

Step 17

On layer with girl – select some branches and again hit Command/Ctrl + B (Color Balance) to change color of these. I used values for "Shadows", for "Midtones" and for "Highlights" Then hit Command/Ctrl + U (Hue/Saturation) and select these settings:

Step 18

Another thing here is shadow behind girl – Do it by painting "17120a" color strokes on new layer (“shadow girl”), and then set this layer to "hard light" blending.

Step 19

Create new layer and set it’s blending to "Linear Dodge (Add)" and paint some strokes of dark-brown color like "3e1d0a". It will create glowing effect on trees and branches, also you can use "Dodge Tool" on setting "Highlight" to lighten up some areas where light should be visible, like trees edges, cliff edges and some areas on our girl-model stock. Check out image below.

Step 20

Create new layer and draw some strokes on ocean with soft brush, use light color like "d6e4c1" and then, lower the opacity at this layer (about 30%) to create fog effect, create another layer and do the same on trees, then create mask on this layer and erase parts like closer trees or leaves. You can blur this mask (Gaussian Blur) to give it smooth look.