A Work in Progress: Golden Sunset



This guide was made for entry:
Golden Sunset
In Contest:
epic view 2019


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This SBS is not going to be too detailed.

Creation of Golden  Sunset: Step 1
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Add background and stretch like this. Will rebuild the shoreline to get rid of the man made structures.

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Clone, and copy/paste to get rid of the man made structures. Extend the bottom by cloning and extend the sky upward.

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Color and light like this. Looks ugly but it will blend in.

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Add sky

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Make it like this.

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Add sun. This is just a couple of larger brush dots.

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Add ledge and monk. Please note that the Monk was flipped horizontally in the final version.

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Color like this.

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Add cliff and trees to the right of the monk. It is very muted and will need a lot of work.

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Color and light on cliff and trees to the right of the monk. Many adjustment layers on this.

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Add mountains. They are going to need many tons of work done on them. Each one has been resized. There is some cloning and special masking on each one. All 3 mountains are made from a single mountain.

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This was an incredible amount of work. I cant even describe how it was done. There are many many adjustment layers on each mountain. Hard to do.

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Brushing on sky.

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Add Buddah

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Vast amount of color and light on Buddah.

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Mask these temples on top of right mountain.

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Color and light on the temples.

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Add bridges from external source. they had to be extended via copy, paste, and masking.

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Color and light on the bridges.

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Clouds brushed on top to give a misty look. Used Brush settings and render clouds for a brush texture.

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Some more brushing. Actually most of the brushing was done by masking in Color Layers which can be superior to regular brushing. You can change the color so much easier this way.

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Flatened image and used that as a soft light layer at 50%. Did some vibrance masking and other global adjustments.

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Final result

Creation of Golden  Sunset: Final Result

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