Photoshop creates a cool mid-air drifting land effect

Author: Anonymous Source: PS2000

This tutorial mainly uses Photoshop to synthesize the land drifting in the sky. The effect picture is a bit like the alien planet picture in the science fiction film. The materials used for the whole effect are good, just a mountain, a geological texture map, and some trees and grass materials. But the author did a great job blending it, especially the details, which almost look like the real thing.

Let’s take a look at the renderings

1. Create a new document, fill it with gradient, drag in the mountain picture material, ctrl+T to transform, and make it taller and narrower as appropriate.

2. Delete the redundant parts and keep only the main body of the mountain

3. Ctrl+B adjusts the color balance to make it look like grass is all over the ground.

4. Use the Polygonal Lasso tool to outline the shape in the picture below, invert the selection with ctrl+shift+I and delete the excess parts

5. Drag in the rock material and adjust the size. It must completely cover the shape of the lower half of the mountain

6. Reduce saturation

7. Hold down ctrl, click on the mountain layer, invert the selection and delete

8. Add a layer mask to the rock layer, select brush No. 63, set the foreground color to black, and paint the edges to make it blend naturally with the mountain

9. Create a new layer, set the foreground color to dark brown, draw at the junction of rocks and mountains, and change to “Multiply” mode

10. Return to the rock layer, select the burn and dodge tools, and process the highlights and dark parts of the rock (dodge if you want it to be convex, and deepen if it is concave)

11. Create a new layer, load the grass brush, set the foreground color to a different color, draw some grass, and change to “Multiply” mode.

12. Create a new layer and add trees. Nothing special, just deepen the ground at the bottom of the trees to form shadows.

13. Create a new layer, load the branch brush, select a shape, and draw the tree roots. A brief introduction to how to draw tree roots:

Set the foreground color to dark green, draw the shape with a brush, and delete the excess. Use the Burn and Dodge tool as well.

14. After completion, copy some tree roots, adjust the size and angle, and place them in different locations. Merge all tree root layers.

15. Duplicate the tree root layer, and adjust the brightness of the lower tree root layer to 0, which is pure black.

16. Gaussian blur, press V, move some distance to the right to form the projection effect of the tree roots.

17. Hold down ctrl, click on the mountain layer, invert the selection, and delete the excess tree root projection.

18. Create a new layer, use the Lasso tool to draw a shape, fill it with dark brown, and use the Dodge tool to apply a highlight effect.

19. Duplicate this layer and adjust its size and position. Merge these small block layers.

20. Duplicate the small block layer and dynamically blur the small block layer below.

21. Use an eraser to erase the blurry shadow below. It feels like falling from above.

22. Finally add the clouds and adjust the hue and saturation of the entire layer.

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