Create a beautiful illustration spring scene with photoshop - 12 February 2011 - Photoshop tutorials, free design resources, writing

6:15 PM Create a beautiful illustration spring scene with photoshop
This time im inspired much with drawing. This tutorial is not hard, and you just need basic photoshop skills to make it. 1. Create a new document and fill with color 8DDAF8. 2. Create a new layer, use soft white brush, opacity 80% and 50% to paint on the pic: 3. Create a new layer, use Elliptical Marquee tool to make a circle: Hold the Shift key, continue with some different size circles to make them look like a cloud: Choose Radiant Gradient: Drag a line: 4. Create a new layer, make another cloud: 5. Merge all cloud layers, Duplicate it then press Ctrl+T to resize it and move to left side: 6. New layer again, choose Elliptical Marquee tool to make a circle : Choose Linear Gradient: Drag a line from left to right: We have: This step is to make a hill 1. 7. Make a new layer, use Ellipticall Marquee tool to make a bigger circle: With the same gradient tool but drag a line from right to left: 8. We continue with hill 3. With the same gradient setting, drag a line from bottom to top: 9. To make hill 4, we do the same method above: Choose Gradient, drag a line from bottom to top: 10. Create a new layer, use pen tool to create a shape on hill 1: After hitting Ctrl+Enter to make selection, choose Linear Gradient: Drag a line from bottom to top: We have first part of the road that runs through hills. 11. Create two new layers, use same method in step 10 to make other parts of road : 12. New layer, use pen tool to create a grass blade shape: Press Ctrl+Enter to make selection, then set Linear Gradient with settings: Drag a line from bottom to top. We have: Duplicate it many times, transform them using different tools : distort, warp... Then merge all grass layers. We will change a bit of color. Choose Image-Adjustment-Selective color Greens: 64, -39, 100, 100 13. Duplicate grass layer twice , resize, transform them and place them under hill 1 and hill 3 layers: 14. Create a new layer, use hard brush, 48 px and color ecdf21to make daisy pistil: 15. New layer again and set it under pistil layer. Continue with pen tool to make a daisy petal shape: After making selection, fill it with white color. Duplicate it 4 times and place them around pistil. We have: Merge pistil and all petal layers. Use Perspective tool to transform it: 16. Create a new layer and place it under daisy layer. Use pen tool to create a path: Stroke path with hard brush, 6 px and color 57a312 then move it up to create daisy stem: Merge stem and daisy layer. Duplicate it many times, transform them and move them into different positions beside grass 1, grass 2 and grass 3. Click to choose grass 1 and daisies 1( that are on hill 4), duplicate them and move them to another side of the pic, distort a bit: 17. New layer, i use pen tool to make a shape path of butterfly wing: Make selection then fill it with gradient: The method is like steps above. We have: 18. New layer and place it under first wing layer. Use pen tool, gradient to make under wing: Merge all these layers, duplicate it, apply Flip horizontal, transform a bit: 19. Continue with some new layers, with the same techniques, make butterfly head and butterfly antena: 20. Merge all butterfly part layers. Duplicate it twice, change color ( you can use adjustment color tools :selective color, color balance,...) and move them to different positions: 21. Create a new layer, use white brush, hardness 40%, 2 px to spot on butterfly heads. Full size of Final Result
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