Welcome to this first full project demonstration.
We're going to be editing this fantasy adventure file.
Go ahead into your project a folder under BSD files.
You'll find the bonus project.
And of course as always if you're using another version of Photoshop and you can't open these files
for some reason you can recreate it with all of the assets that I have included in the photos folder.
As I mentioned in the last video I am using a an art board to demonstrate this which is great because
now we can kind of use it as a reference so you can kind of recreate what I'm doing.
So in the art bored one sort of folder structure you'll see all of the different layers.
And I don't want to really give away everything I'm doing but basically we are layering this bottom
image which is the mountains we're adding the truck or the Jeep.
We're adding some cool fantasy fantastical space sci fi kind of things going on in the background.
So without further ado let's just start working on it.
So we're going to go over to our art board to open these files and we're actually going to turn off
all of these other layers and just put this valley road file on the bottom with my move tool.
I'm going to make it the full size of the square.
Now you can make this any size you want.
And the cool thing about art boards is we can actually take our art board tool click on our art board
and make it wider.
So click on the art board layer itself.
And if you want to make a version of and we'll just go ahead and do that for kicks and giggles we'll
make this a little bit wider.
The next thing I want to do because I know from my original version that I have these mountains in front
of things like the Galaxy the sky this moon that we've had in the background.
I want to separate the mountains from the foreground.
How do we do that.
There's different ways but we're going to use the quick selection tool.
Make sure this layer is selected.
We're just going to click and drag over our mountains does a pretty good job.
Let's zoom in here.
Let's get some of these mountains that weren't selected part of this this way is really difficult.
And it's pretty impressive that Photoshop can get those the white parts of the mountain
something like that looks pretty good.
I always like to go.
I might actually delete this part of the mountain because that's going to look a little bit funky with
the uh the sky in the background so we'll just kind of cut out from here.
So we'll put the sky and everything in front of those mountains that are in the distance next.
We always go select a mask see we can see a better view and we can see that that's part of the mountain
was not selected everything else is pretty good.
We're gonna increase our edge radius make sure that's on that looks pretty good.
We're actually going to feather this a little bit because as these mountains are in the distance I think
it'll look better if the edges are a little bit blurred out a little bit faded into the background.
It doesn't have to have these sharp edges and that just will help with the perspective and that sort
of shallow depth of field what which we're going for with the stars and everything in the background.
All right.
So let's go ahead and output to layer mask and click ok.
Actually we're gonna do new layer with layer mask because we want that original layer behind us as well.
So now we just have the mountains in the foreground to work with.
Next we're gonna put some of these layers in the background.
So we have like this sunset sky so we're gonna add this.
Let's just make this a little bit bigger we're going to put this behind our mountains and it doesn't
matter that that sun is there because which we don't really want in the in the frame unless you want
a two sun.
Or it could be a moon even a two moon planet that you're creating.
And that's fine.
But I kind of like the glow that this sun creates around these clouds so I'm gonna place this image
right around here.
So you get that glow coming out from behind the mountain.
And then also are unique.
Our our galaxy right here.
So we're gonna make this as big as the frame as well
something like this.
We might actually make this a little bit smaller.
We might cut this out in just a minute and we're going to put this underneath our mountain.
Now this is cool but we want this to blend in right.
So there's a couple of ways to do this.
Let's turn off our galaxy.
The sun we can literally just drop the opacity if we want that to be sort of that style or we could
change the blend mode.
Let's just look and see what that looks like.
If we change the blend mode sometimes the Yeah that looks pretty good.
Hard light looks pretty good when the area light.
Yeah I think I like that hard light look.
This might be a little different than what I did originally and then we have the galaxy.
Let's go scroll through them as well.
We're trying to get those stars to pop out
and that's kind of cool with those stars
hmm mm hmm.
That's pretty cool too maybe hard light as well.
But with a little bit less opacity maybe 50 percent opacity.
I think we're doing something a little bit different than our other image and they are going to move
this over here to the side like so so that we see more of the galaxy.
And it's not covered up by the moon that we're going to create.
So let's actually drop this into a layer mask and then we're going to just sort of brush out the outside
edges.
So with our brush set to black opacity 100 we're just going to brush over the edges like so
that it looks pretty good and actually make this a little bit bigger.
Something like that looks pretty cool.
Awesome.
So we're getting there we're getting there.
Next we're gonna do is add this moon so we have this red moon orange moon that I got online.
I think it's called out a blood moon so there's different ways to select the moon but we're just going
to use our quick selection brush we're gonna select and mask we're actually going to shift the edge
in a little bit because we don't want to get any of that black on the edge but we still have it like
a bit of a feather smart radius.
And that's pretty cool.
And that adds to a new layer.
So we're gonna put this underneath our mountains but in front of our sky.
Now let's rotate this as I did.
I think something like that looks a little bit better
now you'll see that there's all these different techniques that I added here to to add some glow and
stuff.
We're going to we're going to continue to work on that.
And it's it's gonna get there.
We're just kind of layering are our layers right now.
Then we're going to play more with colors and things like that.
Now I do want to add this glow that I have behind this moon.
So what I'm going to actually do is duplicate this layer and just create a glow for the moon behind
it.
So I'm gonna duplicate that layer double click it.
We're gonna choose outer glow and then we're going to choose a color that's similar to this red.
So we're gonna just go into that red and then maybe boost it just a little bit make it a little bit
more saturated and then we can change how bright or dark it is the opacity
maybe we want to try a different blend mode
normal
overlay.
I like overlay sometimes the overlay looks pretty good.
Maybe drop that opacity maybe make it a little bit more yellow
and that's looking pretty good.
And let's actually just make it a little bit smaller so you can see that there's still the moon there.
So we're going to be a little bit smaller.
And this gives us just a little bit more extra room to edit our our moon compared to adding the actual
glow to the main Moon layer we can move things around making bigger smaller.
That kind of thing.
So next let's select our jeep and we're going to add this Jeep layer so let's take our quick selection
brush again.
We're going to try to get this Jeep selected.
This is a little bit of a tricky one because it does have some bars at the top of the Jeep that are
a little bit harder to select
and you can see here at the bottom it selects a lot of this road because it's such a similar color.
Now it's going to be not too big in our graphics so it's it doesn't have to necessarily be perfect.
But you know as close as possible it would be nice to get it to be perfect and you can go in here after
the fact with your layer mask and paint stuff out or paint stuff in.
We're just trying to get a quick sort of selection let's see this bar has been giving me a hard time
and see if we can get rid of that part of the bar.
That part of the bar and it was going to click in these little holes.
This is this is where Photoshop and creating these images takes a long time like a scar over here in
this area.
This area cops didn't like me doing that
all right.
I think this is pretty good.
Let's just make sure our general hair looks pretty good.
OK let's get this tire down here.
All right now let's go into select and mask.
Let's go up.
Actually let's turn down our feathering our smoothing at three is fine shift edge.
Let's set to zero
lips set that to zero and that's actually looking pretty good.
Now we could go in here and remove those little areas right here inside maybe edge detection might help
with that a little bit.
Yeah we got edge detection which is going to help
thank you.
Edge detection
cool.
So edge detection does help a little bit.
So you can see this could take a long time.
So I don't want to just spend an hour just making a selection so I'm gonna be happy with that for now.
I mean when I click OK that creates this new layer and we're gonna just size this and put it down a
little bit smaller down the road.
Right.
All rise.
Down the road.
This jeep is headed off for some sort of adventure trying to make it proportional to the road where
it's at.
Something like that looks pretty good.
All right.
So now we're just seeing what we have added to this this layer.
We've got our jeep which is cool.
Let's see we've got some tire tracks that I've created in a couple of little details like the shadow
underneath the car.
So remember how we created that shadow before.
We're just going to create a copy of this layer.
We're going to double click.
We're going to create an color overlay.
We're going to blur it.
So we have that layer selected filter blur gaussian blur and the
like 15 13 14 that probably is good.
Then we're just going to take our move tool holding the control key down.
We're gonna take this top one and just kind of reverse it something like this now because it wasn't
at the bottom edge of this layer.
We do have to move the layer up then something like that looks pretty good.
And we're just going to drop the opacity 50 or something like that.
Even changing the blend mode something like overlay allows the background or this road to come through
a little bit more too.
So I think that's pretty good.
We also have these tire tracks so these were done with a brush.
So let's go ahead and create a new layer.
So let's zoom in here really quickly.
We'll create a new layer for now on top of our jeep.
We're going to take our brush and in our brushes we're going to take one that looks something like a
tire track something like this 80 and you could change the spacing.
So it looks more like a tire track.
This looks pretty good.
We're going to change it to black.
And we're trying to draw and we want to change the rotation of this brush to actually see I'm drawing
up and it actually that looks kind of good but I think we're drawing this way that looks better.
So let's change the rotation
to 90 degrees.
That looks pretty good.
So let's just do a couple quick and you'll notice that it should get bigger as it gets closer to me.
So I'm just going to go over these a couple of times.
These are gonna be blended into the background and as I get closer to me it's going to actually it's
actually going to get bigger.
So let me actually undo this.
There's another option a thing that you can do let's take a brush.
You can turn on smoothing up here smoothing will actually make your brush strokes a little bit smoother.
And I definitely recommend having that on if you aren't that good of an artist.
Which I'm not.
So I'm trying to follow what the road would look like and also as it gets closer to me they get further
apart which makes sense right.
Because that just helps to trick the audience or the viewer into thinking this
tire track actually comes from this jeep so I could spend a lot of time doing this.
Now I am not that good at this.
This is something that I I admit I'm not that good at something like that looks pretty good though.
Pretty good.
And now let's put this underneath our car.
Let's change the blend mode to overlay again drop the opacity this time like 75 percent or something
looks pretty good.
Cool.
So we are getting there.
The next thing we've got to do is play around with the colors and then also we have this sort of cloud
effect let's see these clouds.
Put this on top and you can see that I kind of just added it to the top and bottom of everything on
this side creating sort of like a foggy look.
Let's see.
So it was this layer right here.
So I actually have it over everything I just used an overlay filter so I'm just going to do the same
or we're going to overlay.
And you can see that it automatically gives the sort of style to this maybe if I rotate it
something like that is pretty good and what I can do to kind of blend it in just a little bit more is
put this in a layer mask and then we're just going to erase parts of this.
Now I want to get my original brush just like a regular brush back we're going to.
That was not the brush original brush like this to turn our opacity down to 50 and just brush in the
middle along the mountains a little bit.
We kind of want just the clouds to be appearing on the top and bottom.
I have this other layer that is kind of giving this glow to the mountains as if there's a lot of light
coming from this moon.
So I'm going to create that sort of glow layer right behind the mountain layers.
I'm going to have a new layer.
We're going to we can just use our kind of regular brush this time though we're going to choose sort
of a orange maybe start with this orange make it a little bit more yellow and we're just going to paint
over right over behind our mountains.
Now I'm just following the top of the mountains like this paint over a couple of times because our opacity
is a little bit lower.
And now if we put this behind our mountains you can see that it kind of gives that glow to it.
Move it down just a little bit.
You could also play with different blend modes.
Again always playing with the blend modes to see if there's something that looks good.
Linear ad dodge that looks pretty good to me.
All right so this is getting pretty close to what we had it in our original.
But you can see the colors are different.
And that's because I just added an overall curves are levels adjustment here.
You can see that.
So let's just do that and let's go ahead curves levels right here so if I take this level's adjustment
we'll just add a little bit of contrast like so you can see that by bringing in the left point and the
right point it just makes everything a little bit more contrast.
Now if I drop down this is our G.B. menu.
You can actually adjust the contrast and colors for specific channels.
So red blue green.
So if I turn it to red and I take this down it kind of gives everything more of like a red ish Magenta
Tint and I want that because that helps blend everything together that makes things kind of look good.
If we want to give it more like a purplish tint as well we can bring down our blues maybe bring suit.
Yeah.
We can give super super purple.
It's a little bit of a different style but I still like it.
I can see that my jeep is a little bit further down the road and this one they got further on their
adventure and just by doing that you can see that we've added quite a bit of of color to our moon back
here.
Now I think that moon is a little bit dark still so for our moon over here let's see where is that moon
layer.
It's probably a better a good idea to name your hairs.
We're just going to add a new adjustment layer and just make it right just for this moon.
So we're going to make sure it's a clipping mass so it's just applying to the moon and we're just going
to increase the contrast and the overall exposure exposure with a little curves
layer.
So it looks a little bit different than the other one that might just be the rotation or the the glow
that I had created for this.
This moon over here and I think that's pretty good.
Our clouds there may be a little bit too bright so let's drop drop the exposure of those clouds.
Another thing we can do just to again help with the details the color of the Jeep is a little off it's
a little bit unsaturated so we can add let's add a little vibrancy to it vibrance layer and again clip
it to just the Jeep we're gonna add the vibrance a little bit saturation that's not doing much Yeah
because that jeep is now.
This is to the shadow.
That's why the shadow hood should be underneath the Jeep
so let's move that shadow underneath the jeep
and now let's make sure our vibrance is just clipped to our jeep itself.
So it does a little bit we might want to add a little bit of a levels or curves adjustment as well as
Brian in that jeep up we can go into the red curve as well similar to what the levels add a little bit
of red.
Again just trying to make this look a little bit more natural.
Even though it's of course it's a fantasy fantasy adventure graphic we're trying to make the different
layers we're compositing together look like they belong together.
All right.
I think that's pretty much it.
I'm happy with this.
As always I would love to see what you come up with.
You can get super creative with the layers that I've given you.
So tag me in your projects when you post them on Instagram or Facebook or wherever.
Thanks so much.
And we'll see you in another video.