Floating Island Scene Designing

 

Create a Floating Island Scene Similar to James Cameron’s Avatar Photoshop Tutorial In this photo manipulation tutorial, you will learn how to create a realistic composition of a sunset in a world with floating islands! We will cover professional-level Photoshop tricks such as adding accurate shadows and highlights, various blending techniques such as giving the image a soft focus effect and altering luminosity and shadows of the scene, adding haziness, and much more!




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)
* Bird Brushes by lpdragonfly (Creative Commons)
* Antelope Island 35 by night-fate-stock (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.

The sky of our present image doesn’t look that good, so we have to change it. Open “Field of dreams”, then select its sky using the Marquee tool (M) and drag the selected region to our canvas using the Move Tool (V). Once it is on our canvas, transform the image by pressing Ctrl/Cmd + T. Flip the image horizontally once the transform menu pops up and rotate that selected sky.

We would need to erase the unwanted parts of our sky to bring out the mountains. Activate the Eraser tool (E) and use the following option values:
* Brush size: 300px
* Hardness: 0%
* Opacity: 100%
* Flow: 100%
Note: The brush hardness can be activated by pressing the drop-down menu on the Brush size tab.

Now that you have your Eraser tool ready, we can now erase parts of the sky that covers our mountains.

We will be increasing the hazy effect on the mountains. Create a new layer (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + N) then name that layer “hazy”, you may rename it by double clicking on the word “layer” and typing a new name for it. Activate your Brush tool (B) and enter these values:
* Brush size: 175px
* Hardness: 0%
* Opacity: 15%
* Flow: 100%
Use the Brush Tool on the region indicated by the image below.

We would need to darken a small part of the sky to make the sky look a bit more dramatic. Create a new layer and name it “Darken” then activate your brush tool and use the same Brush values above.

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.

Now that the first floating island is in place, we would need to separate it from its background. Activate your Magic Wand (W) tool and select the regions you want removed and after selecting those just press delete. Notice that the Magic Wand tool doesn’t totally remove all those unwanted areas, so we would have to erase it manually. Activate your Eraser tool (E) and erase the areas that have not been removed. For more accuracy, I suggest you increase the zoom to 400%. You can do that by going to the Navigator window and increasing the Zoom slider or the Zoom level. Erase those areas and come up with an image similar to the one below:

 

As it appears on our Layer window, change the settings to:
* Blending mode: Luminosity
* Opacity: 100%
Create a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer from the New Adjustment Layer button then set its values to:
* Edit: Master
* Hue: 0
* Saturation: 7
* Lightness: 5
Next, we create a Curves adjustment layer. Then use these values:
* Channel: RGB
* Input: 122
* Output: 134

Create a Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer then input these values:
* Brightness: 4
* Contrast: 10
Step 8 – Make the image look dreamy

Now let’s add a dreamy effect to our scenery. Right click on any layer then press Flatten Image. Then duplicate our image (Ctrl/Cmd + J). While the duplicated layer is selected, go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and input this value:
* Radius: 16.0

Then press OK. Now on the Layer window, use these settings:
* Blending mode:
* Screen Opacity: 25%
Now, you’d probably notice that the image lacks dark tones, so let’s fix that. Create a Selective Color adjustment layer and then input these values:
* Colors: Blacks
* Cyan: 0
* Magenta: 0
* Yellow: 0
* Black: 5
* Method: Absolute

Now that that’s done, let’s Flatten the image.
Step 9 – Sharpening and saving as PSD
Before anything else, you may want to save it as PSD file so you may edit the image again in the future. After that, let’s sharpen the image. Go to Filter > Sharpen > Smart Sharpen and input these values:
* Amount: 125%
* Radius: 1.0
* Remove: Gaussian Blur
* More Accurate: Checked
Step 10 – Saving the file to TIFF and Jpeg
After you’ve done the sharpening, you may flatten the image by right clicking on any layer and clicking Flatten Image. You may want to save it as a TIFF file first, which would allow you to do some quick changes to the image, like adjustment layers and fill layers without reducing its quality. You can view cracks in the image through the Histogram. Finally, save it as a .jpeg image. Note: Over edited .Jpeg files would reduce the image’s quality, especially in print.

Floating Island Final Image

 

             

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