Dreamy Mountain Lake

• You will need this image to complete this tutorial. This image is courtesy of Inkday.

1. Open image, duplicate background layer. Click on your history palette and take a snapshot, call it original.

2. Click filter=> noise=> add noise

• 25%
• uniform
• monochromatic.

3. Click filter=> blur=> motion blur, set to

• 0 degrees
• 50 pixels.

4. Click Filter=> render=> Lens Flare.

• 35 mm prime
• 170%
• right border of the image and half way down.

5. Click Filter=> render=> Lens Flare.

• 35 mm prime
• 120%
• left border half way down.

6. Take a snapshop called water.

7. Click back on the original. Select your linear gradient set to the preset of copper. Draw the gradient from the toip to half way down your image, holding shift key down to make it straight.

8. Click Image=> adjust=> hue/saturation.

• check colorize
• hue=230
• saturation= 100
• lightness +68

9. Click the snapshot button on the history palette and call it sky.

10. Click back on the original snapshot. Select foreground color as hex #000099 and background color to white.

• Click filter=> render clouds
• Click filter render difference clouds
• click filter render difference clouds

11. Use your move tool with bounding boxes to grab the center bottom of this image and scale the height of this layer so that the bottom of the scaling image is just below the top edge of the mountain.

12. Take a history snapshot called clouds

13. Click back on your original snapshot. Click edit=>transform=> Flip vertical.

14. Click Filter=> Blur =>Gaussian blur set to 1 pixel.

15. Take a snapshot of this history and call it reflection.

16. Click back on your clouds history layer. Click Edit=> Transform=> Flip Vertical. Drag this image to the bottom edge of your canvas and take a snapshot called clouds reflection.

17. Click back on your original snapshot.

18. Use the rectangular marquee and drag a rectangle from the 80 pixel mark on the side ruler down to encompass the lower 3/4 of the canvas.

19. Select your history brush set to 35 soft brush, and 65 % opacity. Set the history brush to the water layer by clicking in the gray box to the left of the water history and a brush symbol will show up on that history. Paint on your image where you want the water to go. Use the top border of the selection as your horizon line for the water behind the mountain. Do not paint over the mountain or the foreground rocks/snow.

20. Click select=> Inverse. Set your history brush to the sky history, use a soft 27 pixel brush set at 65% to paint over this area. click select=> deselect.

21. Set your history brush to the mountain reflection. Set the brush as 45 pixel soft brush at 20% opacity. Paint over the foreground water, 2 times to show the mountain through.

22. Select a 45 pixel soft history brush set to screen mode and 80 %opacity and the history palette set to use the clouds layer to paint in clouds in the sky.

23. Set your history brush to the clouds reflection on the history palette and set 20%. Paint in one stroke on the water, the cloud reflection under the reflection of the mountain.

24. Create a snapshot. This is where you will be working from to continue your project. can now add whales, ships, flowers, etc., as you please.

Duplicate the background layer 2X and on the top layer apply smart blur with edge only, invert and set to multiply. On the second copy apply a watercolor, with saturation up and lightness up.

OR:

Make a copy and apply pointilize.