The Dreaming Process





Here I'll go through the major steps involved in the creation of the dream photoshop. It'll not be a tedious guide as to how I exactly got it and every tool used and all that. It is more of a general guideline. This was my first time using most of these techniques so it was pretty fun to see it all come together.





First thing I actually did was just create the basic outline. I painted a bottom green half, and then painted in the blue for the water.

Then I went about for the sky. I added noise for the stars, basically it was a process of adding noise, using a blurring technique, and then adjusting the threshold, then using the blurring technique again until the stars were just right.

Then I rendered difference clouds with predefined colors of black and blue.





I found a great shot of the moon and so I used that by removing the surrounding black while also adjusting the contrast a little.

I also found an interesting photoshopped water image, so I included it and adjusted it to match the previous blue area by selecting the green, then selecting inverse.. That way I could remove the other parts of the faux water and have it work.





Several adjustments were involved in this step. first being the inclusion of clouds. I found a good stock picture of clouds, I just had to remove some of the included sky. That wasn't too hard, and also adjust the color a bit. Plus I adjusted its opacity to about 88% to give it that effect of the cloud in front of the moon.

Next was creating a minor reflection of the clouds on the water, so I just selected a box and did pretty much the same when I put in the water. Just I adjusted its opacity to about 50% and flipped it vertically.





Here I add some grass and make it a little more interesting and hilly on either side. I used the included preset tool of grass and used varying colors and sizes to achieve it. It's not that good looking, but it's better than just solid green.





Here I added the tree I found from a photoshopped stock image. The interesting part, not sure if you notice is the minor shadow of the tree. I merely created a new layer and adjusted its threshold and skewed it until it was in the position I wanted and also changed its opacity and blurred it a little.

So there you have the end result. Not sure how many people will actually want to look at this, just thought it would be interesting to see. Even still, I might need to take a look back at this at a later date for tips again if I go about using similar techniques.

If you want to download the psd with all the layers somewhat single edits, here you go.
Download: dream.psd - 7.42mb 1242x1256px