 Flood in the Canyon
 1. Open your Canyon picture in Photoshop and right click on your
background and duplicate the layer.
2. Open your history palette and click the button to to make a snapshop. Rename
the snapshot 1 to original by clicking on the name and an edit box comes up
for renaming.
 3. Click on the original history snapshot.
 4.
Click on your layers palette background copy. Click filter=>texture=>Texturizer.
set the following:
- texture = sandstone
- Scaleing = 50%
- Relief = 8
- light = topright
- uncheck invert.
5. Click on your history palette without selecting a layer. click Create
a new snapshot. Rename this snapshot Sandstone. (If you were to accidently
click on the original history snapshot prior to making a snapshop of your
sandstone, you may have recreate your sandstone.
 6.
Click back on the original history snapshot. Click on your background copy
layer. Click Filter=>Blur=>Gaussian. Set it to 15 pixels.
7. Click Image=> adjust=> hue/saturation. Set the following:
- colorize checked
- Hue = 205
- saturation =98
- lightness =-57
 8.
Set toclick Filter=>Noise=> add noise. Set it to:
- amount = 20%
- distribution = gaussian
- monochromatic = checked.
9. Click Filter=> Blur=> Motion Blur. Set the blur to the following:
-
 angle
=0
- distance = 21
10. Click filter=> Render=> Lens Flare. Set to
- Brightness = 150%
- lens type = 105 prime.
- center the crosshair on the center of the canvas.
11. Click on your history palette without selecting a layer. click Create
a new snapshot button. Rename this snapshot Water.
12. Click back onto your original history. Open your image of the clouds.
Set your rectangular marquee options to a fixed size style, 450 wide and 480
high and click in the upper left hand corner of your image. Select your move
tool and drag a copy onto your image.
  13.
Click View=> New Guide. Set the guide to horizontal 120 pixel. Use the
move tool so that the clouds sit above the guide and right on the edge of
the guide. Right click on the cloud layer and duplicate it. Click Edit=>
transform=> flip vertical. Use your move tool to move this below the guide
line and abutted to the line so the two cloud layers meet.
14. Check the box for show bounding boxes when your move tool is
highlighted and drag the center bottom handle down to stretch most of the
dark cloud out of the image from the lower right till the height is 150%
 15.
Click Layer=>Merge down to merge the two cloud layers. Click layer=> merge
down to merge the clouds onto your background copy.
16. . Click on your history palette without selecting a layer. click
Create a new snapshot button. Rename this snapshot Clouds.
17. Click back onto your original history. This is going to remain
the highlighted history layer for the remainder of the tutorial. If you
click somewhere else and back you will lose your work.
  18.
Set the source for your history brush to the water layer by clicking in the
grey box to the left of the water layer. Note that the original history
stays highlighted as the current history state.
Select the history brush on the tool bar. Set the brush to a 19 pixel
hard brush normal mode, opacity 80%.
 
Brush in the water in the canyon being care to run up to the edges of the
canyon. Try not to lift your brush, and if you go over the edge, not to
worry, we can fix it after you have it all filled in by setting your source
for the history brush back to the original and painting it back in at 100%.
 19. Set your history brush source to the sandstone. Set the brush options
to the following:
- 45 pixel soft
- 20% opacity
- mode = Color Dodge
Run your brush once around the outside of the water area, overlapping the
water slightly. This will lighten up the beaches.
20. Set the history brush source to the clouds layer.
 Set
the brush to to following:
- 100 pixel soft brush
- 80 %opacity
- mode = normal.
Stroke the width of the canvas at the far side of the lake(1->2). Move
your brush up towards the top(2->3) and stroke back(3->4), not taking your
brush off the canvas. Stroke back over the width of the canvas on the top to
increase cloud density at the top(4->5). Lift your brush and then stroke the
top edge again.(5->4)
21. Paint the clouds history source brush over the lake using the
following history brush options:
- 45 soft brush
- 20% opacity
- mode = normal.
- One stroke meaning don't pick up your brush so you avoid overlap
lines.
Reset the history brush to the following and repaint the clouds on the
lake.
- 45 pixel soft brush
- 20% opacity
- mode = color dodge
- one stroke.
If you go off on the land, you can switch the history brush source to the
original and repaint the original. You can also use a 9 pixel hard brush
using your history source as the original to repaint the wood in the
foreground.
To change the overall color of the canvas, click image=> adjust=> hue
saturation. Set the saturation up to +30
Your done!
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