1. Open a new image. Set the image to the
following:
- 1000 wide
- 700 high
- 72 dpi
- RGB
- white background.
- Call it composite.
2. Using the Fill pain bucket
 , set the
foreground color to black and fill the background.
3. Insert new layer and call it Clover.
4. Open the clover image. While the clover image is your active window do
the following.
- click select => all
- Click edit=>define pattern.
- Call the pattern Clover and click ok.
- Close the clover picture.
5. Click on your composite to activate that as your canvas. While your
layer 1 is highlighted, Click Edit=>fill.
- Select pattern as your fill source
- Select the clover fill
6. Set the opacity of the clover layer to 70 %
7. Open your goldfish picture.
- Using the lasso tool set at 10 pixel feather, lasso the pond picture
around the outside of the fish and using the move tool,
- drag it onto the composite picture. Set the opacity to 50.
- If you want your pond bigger you may want to move two or three over.
to your canvas.
- Using your move tool on the composite,
- click on each goldfish layer and arrange it to the middle of
your canvas. name this layer goldfish.
- Close your goldfish picture.
8. Open your waterfall picture. Using the lasso tool set at 10 pixel
feather, lasso around the rocks including the waterfall and some bottom
water pool. Use the move tool to drag this over to your composite canvas.
Repeat the drag again. to form two layers of waterfalls. Arrange the
waterfalls this way (suggestion)
- Call the top waterfall layer "waterfall base"
- Using the move tool, move the waterfall so that it touches the edge of
hte pond and looks like it falls into it in the center back of the pond.
- Call the next waterfall layer "waterfall back"
- While "waterfall back" is highlighted, move the image to the top edge
of the "waterfall base"
- click edit=>transform=>flip horizontal. and adjust the location of the
falls again using your move tool.
- Click edit=>transform=>Skew. Grab the upper right hand bounding box
handle and drag it up about 50 pixels.
8. Open the following images in order, lasso them with 10 pixel feather
and drag onto the composite canvas and place according to the map above.
- Rocks, drag 3 copies on. Call them rocks and rocks1 rocks1a. Place in
the foreground (bottom) along the edge of the pond.
- Rocks2, drag 3 copies,
- flip one horizontal and place it either left side of the falls to
the back of the pond.
- Place the second, called rocks 3 to the right of the falls.
- place the third, called rocks4 on the right side of the pond about
midway down, and over a little.
- Daffodils placed to the left of the falls, overlapping but left of the
rocks3
- Bulbs, Drag 3 copies.
- The copy called bulbs should undergo edit=>transform=>flip
horizontal. This should be dragged with the move tool to the upper left
corner of the canvas.
- The second copy, called bulbs1 should be moved to the upper right
hand corner of the canvas.
- The third copy called bulbs2 should be dragged to the foreground
(bottom) just to the right of the foreground rocks on the edge of the
goldfish pond.
- Hyacinths- 2 copies.
- Place one on the right and one on the left of the picture, about
midway down.
- Crocus- 4 copies, crocus, crocus1, crocus2, crocus 3.
- The one named crocus should be transformed scaled smaller and placed
to the top of the left of the waterfall. Set opacity of this layer to
60.
- The other three should be placed in the foreground to the bottom of
the canvas, below the rocks.
- Weeds- 3 copies, weeds, weeds1, and weeds2 placed in the foreground.
9. Adding the depth/secluded look-
- Click on the Clover layer. Zoom out of your picture so you can see
much more then your picture in the window.
- Click the D key to reset your color palette to black to foreground,
white to background.
- Select Layer=>Add Layer Mask=>reveal all
- Select the gradient tool. Select the Diamond gradient.
- Start drawing your gradient at the very top edge of the waterfalls.
Extend the gradient down about half the canvas height BELOW the canvas.
- Set the clover layer to dissolve.
10. Adding the first fairy
- highlight your rocks4 layer.
- Open fairy1, newfae3.jpg. Using the lasso tool at 10 pixel feather,
outline the fairy.
- Using the Move tool, drag the fairy to the composite canvas.
- Call the first fairy layer fairy1 and set this layer to 70% opacity.
- Place this fairy to the left of the rocks on the left of the
waterfalls, down on the big boulder, but to the left so you can see the
big boulder of that rock.
11. Adding the second fairy
- Open fairy2, fairy22.jpg. Using the lasso tool at 10 pixels, outline
the fairy.
- Using the move tool, drag the fairy from the picture to your composite
canvas.
- Call the new layer Fairy2
- Using the move tool, move the fairy to the right of the waterfalls,
and to the right of the big boulder on the right, down next to the water.
12. Adding a castle.
- highlight the top waterfalls layer.
- Open the Castle picture and using the lasso, at 10 pixel feather,
lasso the castle.
- Drag the castle onto the canvas.
- Set the castle to 25 opacity.
- Move the castle to the right of the waterfalls and rocks up near the
top of the picture.
13. Adding a unicorn.
- Click on the top layer.
- Open the unicorn.
- Using the lasso, with a feather of 10 pixels, lasso the unicorn.
- with the move tool, drag the unicorn onto the composite canvas. Move
it on top of the weeds in the foreground (bottom or picture.
-
 Set
the opacity of the unicorn layer to 90 %.)
14. Making this a painting.
- Click on your top layer.
- Add a new layer.
- Hold down your control, alt, shift and press E.
- Select image=>adjust=>Auto levels
- Click Filter=>artistic=>paintdaubs
- Brush size is 2
- sharpness is anywhere from 2 to 7.
- brush type is simple.
15. Save our file s an jpg, using about quality =15
16. Resize your image and crop to what you want.
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