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This will prompt the contextual menu to pop up and once you see that, just click on Load Brushes.

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You will now be prompted to this directory: Adobe Photoshop > Presets > Brushes so make sure that you have put the brushes within this folder. Now locate the brush set and click OK. Right click on the canvas again using your Brush tool (B) and now you’ll notice that you have lightning brushes. Now, let’s choose a brush:

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With that brush selected, input the following brush settings for it:

  • Brush size: 242px
  • Hardness: Default
  • Opacity: 40%
  • Flow: 100%
  • #: 00000

Now, let’s paint in the Source light in highlighted areas:

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The result should be similar to this:

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Step 9: Create Bench

First off, let’s open the bench by angeltouch1 stock in Photoshop. We will be using the bench on this stock image so we will need to transfer it to our main canvas.

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Now activate lasso tool (L) and then select the highlated area.

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Once you select the bench then activate move tool (v) and drag the bench inti main canvas.Change the name of layer to “Bench”.

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Activate the Transform tool again (Ctrl/Cmd +T), and then scale it down take a look of image.

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Then right click on the canvas to bring up the contextual menu. Once open, click on “lip horizontal”. The result should be similar to this:

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Now we will do some work on our bench.First we can see that it’s upper par is to small so select the upper part of the image.

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Activate the Transform tool again (Ctrl/Cmd +T), and then scale it down take a look of image.

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The result should be similar to this:

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let’s now tweak this “Bench” to blend in with the rest of the images. First, let’s tweak its “Brightness/Contrast”. Start by clicking on the “Tree” layer and go to Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast.

Use the following settings:

  • Brightness: -25
  • Contrast : 0
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Now go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation.

  • Hue: 0
  • Saturation: -40
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Now go to Image > Adjustments > Curves.

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Now go to Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast.

  • Brightness: -10
  • Contrast : 0
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Now go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation.

  • Hue: 0
  • Saturation: -50
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At last reduce opacity to 65%.The result should be similar to this:

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Step 10: Create Bench Shadow

With that brush selected, input the following brush settings for it:

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3 responses to “Create a Moody Landscape Photo Manipulation in Photoshop”

  1. fastgood Avatar
    fastgood

    good ! Thank you ~:)

  2. Darshan Avatar
    Darshan

    nice tutorial

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