Photoshop is the best software for photo manipulations and this tutorial will show you how to create a dreamy sunrise landscape all inside Photoshop. This tutorial by Jenny Le will cover techniques such as blending, color adjustments, masking, retouching, and tips on how to get beautiful and realistic results.

Preview of Final Results

sunrise41-final

Tutorial Resources

Step 1

Create a new document with size 1300×800 px and fill it with white (or any color you like). Open sky stock. Use Retangular Marquee Tool to make a selection on sky part and use Move Tool (V) to drag it into our white canvas, place it at the top:
sunrise1
sunrise1a

Step 2

I use an adjustment layer with Clipping Mask to make colors of the sky richer and more vibrant. On sky layer, go to Layer-New Adjustment Layer-Selective Color:
sunrise2
sunrise2a
sunrise2b

Step 3

Drag landscape stock into our picture, convert it to Smart Object and use Cmd/Ctrl+T to resize it:
sunrise3
Click the second button at the bottom of Layer Pallete to add mask to landscape layer. Use soft black brush to remove sky of this landscape and blend it with sky in previous step:
sunrise3a

Step 4

I make a new layer with Clipping Mask and active Clone Tool (S). Use this tool to remove some light rays:
sunrise4

Step 5

Make a new layer, I use soft brush with color #a97c3c to paint on the right side of the mountains to add more warm color to them. Then change the mode to Soft Light 100%:
sunrise5
sunrise5a

Step 6

Open path stock. Copy path part and place it at the middle section of our image, transform to get a look below:
sunrise6
sunrise6a
Use layer mask to remove hard edges:
sunrise6a[1]

Step 7

Duplicate this layer four times, use Cmd/Ctrl+T and Warp Tool (Edit-Transform-Warp) and layer mask to make the path longer. You can see how I arranged them on the screenshot below:
sunrise7
Make all path layers selected then hit Cmd/Ctrl+G to make group for them, change the mode from Pass Through (default group mode) to Normal 100%. Name these layers from 1 to 5.

Step 8

I add two adjustment layers within this group to match color and brightness of the paths with the rest.
sunrise8
On Curves layer mask I use soft black brush to erase the parts towards the light:
sunrise8a

Step 9

After transforming and warping, the path parts look a bit flat. To fix it, I make a new layer within this group, use brush with color #291605 to create the shades under the steps:

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27 responses to “Create a Beautiful Sunrise Scene with an Old House”

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    Anonymous

    man…this is some next level edit!

  2. Su Hall Avatar
    Su Hall

    This is nice! I love your tutorials! Thank you!
    Su

  3. eppytx Avatar
    eppytx

    I started downloading everything so I could do this tutorial, even signed up for another site. But then it wants a credit card!! Sorry, not gonna happen.

    So I deleted all the downloads and forgot about this tutorial.

    Note to authors… just cause you’re a member of a stock site, doesn’t mean the rest of us want to be. Verify the images are truly free!

  4. Ali Avatar
    Ali

    Wow, I love this. Thank you for a great tutorial!

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    Anonymous

    wow amazing

  6. clippingpatharea Avatar
    clippingpatharea

    Wow. Thank you for sharing this experience with us………..and for the challenge.Thanks Amazing designs, best of luck in your design career!

  7. Maidul Islam Avatar
    Maidul Islam

    Wow! So cute, nice blog, I found it interesting. Thanks for sharing.

  8. dieuthuy Avatar
    dieuthuy

    Thankyou very much.

  9. Neil Martin Avatar
    Neil Martin

    Every link to sxc.hu redirects to a broken link on freeimages.com. Is there any way to find those images?

  10. malissimo43 Avatar
    malissimo43

    excelente

  11. Lucho Avatar
    Lucho

    thank u! very much

  12. Zachery Avatar
    Zachery

    Agreed with the stock photos. It’s too hard to download them and easier to google it. On one hand, free stock photos are free. But on the other, they always disappear. So I am not sure whether I prefer paid or free stock photos. But I wish there are more tutorials where the writer provides their own so that there are no problems like these.

  13. Ana Sousa Avatar
    Ana Sousa

    Sorry for multiples posts, but I found the picture on a wallpaper website.

    http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2gBZek/wallpapers-start.com/images/wallpapers/sunset-time-117525.jpeg/

  14. assia gamo Avatar
    assia gamo

    ana nahab na3mal photo shop kifach na3mlahoum stp

  15. assia gamo Avatar
    assia gamo

    photo shop

  16. Ana Sousa Avatar
    Ana Sousa

    For the house google stone house Portugal and you’ll find several pictures.

  17. Glen Avatar
    Glen

    I have to agree with other viewers regarding the images used. I’ve had to join 2 more sites to obtain the individual images. Free Stock Images are not free. Get one free, but pay for the rest????!!!!! http://www.sxc.hu is the best one; I’ve been a member for years; but the sunset……..waiting for owner to send permission to use Ha!

    To create this tutorial, it would have been easier to google the images. I’ve wasted over an hour so far trying to get the images and I’ve still not had chance to fire up Photoshop yet. I might have to give this tut a miss. Nice end image; but the image resource gathering lets it down big time!!

  18. Ana Sousa Avatar
    Ana Sousa

    I’m also waiting for the permission request to be answered. As for the path, google and you’ll find several stone paths that can be used to replace the paid image.

  19. amrita roy Avatar
    amrita roy

    very nice work

  20. pravinachalke Avatar
    pravinachalke

    nice composition

  21. Marvin Avatar
    Marvin

    Great app for fashionable scene —
    Very nice work !!

  22. Rebecca Fitzgibbons Avatar
    Rebecca Fitzgibbons

    Great image.
    It’s a shame I have to wait to get my request answered on the stock site for the landscape before I can do it.
    I’m also struggling to get the path picture. When I click on it, it keeps taking me to a page and asking me to pay. I can’t work out how to get it for free.

  23. Mono Sky Avatar
    Mono Sky

    Hi all, This is Nice Project. Many Photo But One. I like this.

  24. june Avatar
    june

    so beautiful

  25. Khin Myo Hsae Avatar
    Khin Myo Hsae

    so cool!

  26. jer0m3 Avatar
    jer0m3

    wow so colorful!!!

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