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Preview of Final Results

Tutorial Resources
- River Stock 3 by cat-in-the-stock (Royalty Free License)
- James Bond Island 1.2 by meihua-stock (Royalty Free License)
- Field of dreams by cubstock (Royalty Free License)
Rons Winter Collection (Royalty Free License)(Alternative)- Bird Brushes by lpdragonfly (Creative Commons)
Floating Island Scene Photoshop Tutorial
- Program: Adobe Photoshop CS2
- Difficulty: Medium
- Estimated Completion Time: 1 to 1.5 hours
Step 1 – Create a new file
Create a new file The image that we would be creating may be used as a high-resolution desktop wallpaper thus the following settings to begin with:- Width: 1800px
- Height: 1500px
- Resolution: 300 dpi
- Color Mode: RGB Color; 8bit
- Background Contents: Transparent

Step 2 - Create the scenery
To begin, let’s open “River Stock 3”. Use your Move tool (V) and drag it to our canvas, with the image in place, activate your Transform tool by pressing Ctrl/Cmd + T and rotate the image.

- Brush size: 300px
- Hardness: 0%
- Opacity: 100%
- Flow: 100%


- Brush size: 175px
- Hardness: 0%
- Opacity: 15%
- Flow: 100%


Step 3 - Add the floating islands
In this step, we will be adding the floating islands. Open “James Bond island 1.2” and drag it to our canvas. We would need to resize this image due to its size. Activate your Transform tool (Ctrl/Cmd + T) to resize and to rotate the image.
4 comments on “Create a Floating Island Scene Similar to James Cameron’s Avatar”
Great idea!
I couldn't get the bird brushes to download, but I found the artist's DeviantArt page and some brushes that are similar.
https://www.deviantart.com/ivadesign/art/bird-brushes-116619710
Thank you for the cool tut!
There's a bug on the QBrushes website. You have to click on the download link several times in order for the download button to work.
The link was changed to yours since it is more direct and works correctly. Thank you Su!
half of files doesn't work