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Tutorial Resources
Some resources may not be available anymore - this is one of the downsides of free stock photos. If that happens, use the "Alternative" link instead. These tutorials can typically be recreated with lower-res or similar-looking stock photos.- Background by mimose-stock
- Ruin #1 by WesternStock (Alternatives: 1, 2)
- Ruin #2 by Random-Acts-Stock
- Ruin #3 by CAStock
- Tower by NickiStock
- Mist Brushes by Pelleron
- Sun Ray Brushes by Pelleron
- Bird Brushes by Ipdragonfly
Step 1 - Preparing Background
Create a new document in Photoshop. Set its dimensions on 2337x 1315 pixels and press OK. The aspect ration of this photo manipulation is 16:9 to create more movie like feel. Press OK.

Step 2 - Adding the Ruin in the Background
Download the photo of the ruin (Ruin #1) listed in the beginning of the tutorial and drag it into your photo manipulation. Name this the layer RUIN IN BACKGROUND and drag it on the top of all layers. (If you don't see the layer palette press F7 on your keyboard or go to Window > Layers to activate it).

Step 3 - Darkening the Ruin
To make it more realistic looking you need to make the ruin bit darker. You can adjust that very easily by adding new adjustment layer Curves on the top of all layers. Click on the button Create a new fill or adjustment layers on the bottom part of your layers palette.

Step 4 - Adding Ruin on the Left
Download photo of the ruin (Ruin #2) listed in the beginning of the tutorial and drag it into your photo manipulation. Place it on the top of all layers and name it LEFT RUIN. Cut out the unwanted background. There are couple steps which need to be done to blend the building properly. Let's start with colors. Make sure the layer LEFT RUIN is active (just click on it in the Layers palette). And then go to Image > Adjustments > Match Color... . Set the dialogue window as on the following picture and press OK.

10 comments on “How to Composite a Ruins Landscape”
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Beautiful, creative and acutely enjoy able!
Nice illustrations, they make it really easy to scan the post for the important parts.
This was very good tutorial. Yea maybe missing a few steps. But i think its a good thing to make you think sometimes on your own.
I liked the tutorial very much. Keep it up m8.
My attempt http://1niquity.deviantart.com/art/Snowland-457464418
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I like the image, but the tutorial is missing a LOT of steps.
Its a very nice tutorial and a picture..but for the left ruin it was way too few the info you gave about it... cause you copy the one side of the ruin and put it and left side of it ,plus you copy the short wall it had and put it on the right side of it...without those it didnt looked realistic ..
tutorial was sort of hard to follow. I mean, when transforming the "left ruin" layer, did you change the perspective? not very descriptive... Good picture though
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