How to Create a Beautiful Underwater Surreal Scene in Photoshop

The result should be like this:

Step 39

Now, change the opacity of "Fisherman's Shadow" group layer in 62%. Your image should be like this:

Now, go to the boat and fisherman shadow layer and activate the layer mask. Activate the "Brush tool" (B) and set the following:

Brush size: Soft round 140-150px
Hardness: 0%
Opacity: 30%
Flow: 100%
#: 000000

The result should be similar to this:

Step 40

In this step, we will enhance the color of our image. Now, create the new adjustment layer "Gradient Map". Open the Gradient Editor and set the color in "Violet, Orage".

The result should be like this:

Now, set the gradient map layer in mode "Soft Light" and opacity in 20%. Your image should be like this:

Step 51

Finally, let's adding a more contrast. Create a new adjustment layer "Gradient Map". Open the Gradient Editor and set the color in "Black, White".

The result should be like this:

Now, set the gradient map layer in mode "Soft Light" and opacity in 5%. Your image should be like this:

Congratulations, it's done. Note: the gradient map adjustment is like a finishing touch for you works. Adding a color accent will get more attractive for your images.

Final Results

Download the PSD

Submarine Fish.zip

Tutorial by Evan Lawrence

Thank you for visiting this page, and using my tutorial. I hope this tutorial will help and improve you the photo manipulation techniques. You can follow and check my artworks on Deviantart and Behance. For commisions you can visit my websitehere. - Evan Lawrence

17 comments on “How to Create a Beautiful Underwater Surreal Scene in Photoshop”

jos says:

September 8, 2016 at 4:09 am

Mooi werk, dankje!

Somya says:

January 10, 2016 at 10:00 pm

Thanks a lot, this is my first try at surreal and your specifications were very exact.wish to attach my output here.

Thanks a lot, learned a lot, done a lot with simpler tricks.

poop says:

November 10, 2015 at 5:31 pm

hello its cool

Yagnik Hirpara says:

October 1, 2015 at 5:13 am

This is awesome

jordan says:

September 23, 2015 at 6:21 pm

when i try to brush the sky, it only gives me variations of grey I can't use colors for some reason =[

James M says:

September 10, 2015 at 10:01 am

Bloody hell! Awesome work man!

Iulian says:

September 7, 2015 at 6:16 am

step 33: where to brush and where to place the texture?

1. Evan Lawrence says:
  
  September 9, 2015 at 7:32 am
  
  I'm really sorry, maybe there's an error when they upload it. I already sent an email to the admin, I hope they can fix it asap. I give the JPEG file for the complete step 33, you can download it here https://www.dropbox.com/s/u33iqxc9stbvvzb/step33.jpg?dl=0
  Thank you
Iulian says:

September 7, 2015 at 4:58 am

in step 27 I get these oversaturated pixels. Is there another way to get rid of them without using clone stamp? https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=95141D5708B162B1!221924&authkey=!AIcVgO6H6-DH6rA&v=3&ithint=photo%2cpng

1. Evan Lawrence says:
  
  September 9, 2015 at 7:26 am
  
  In step 27, I'm using brush. It's okay if you use the stamp tool, the result is totally same. I already remind a note in this step about making silhouette with the levels adjustment effect is not always make the image change into totally black, it depends with the quality of the image. Thank you.
Anonymous says:

September 1, 2015 at 2:39 am

Thanks good

gerda says:

August 29, 2015 at 9:25 am

Beautiful tutorial gerda

Dave says:

August 28, 2015 at 1:12 pm

Thanks for a good detailed tutorial.

arvind kumar gupta says:

August 28, 2015 at 7:45 am

it is a good tutorial.thanks

Iulian says:

August 28, 2015 at 4:36 am

I can download other files, but the zip files just interrupt randomly and cannot be opened even if the download is full. Please check all links before posting a tutorial.

1. Evan Lawrence says:
  
  September 9, 2015 at 7:18 am
  
  Hello Iulian, I'm sorry for the late reply. The zip files is totally fine, I already check it. Thank you.
Margaret Black Pyron says:

August 27, 2015 at 9:26 am

cool