speed painting The Lake I felt that the bottom of the painting felt empty at this point, so I decide to add a small lake here. The process of creating this lake is as follows: draw a marquee around the painting; press Ctrl + T to make a Free Transform. Flip the image upside down, basically grabbing the top and pulling it down. You then need to squeeze together the image horizontally so that it looks like a narrow, broad box. Finish the Free Transform by hitting Enter on your keyboard. The last thing to do is to erase the hard edges of this flipped box so that it melts together with the background painting (Fig.06).
Last-Minute C on s i d e r at i on I’m not totally happy with the background here because I feel I still have some space to be worked on – and also because I want to create more depth in the image. So, I decide to paint in some more trees, using a hard-edged brush for this task – one of the default brushes in
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Photoshop (Fig.07).
Te xturing It’s time for texturing at this stage, which is good if you have custom-made brushes just for this purpose. I have a custom-made brush (Fig.08a) that has a sprinkled effect, which I used to create fire sparks (Fig.08b). Fig.08b
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