Lake Reflection Tutorial

This is a curt tutorial on how I pigment H2O reflection as well as waves for lake scenery artwork.

Preparing the layers

For lake scenery, I unremarkably split upwardly artwork into a few cardinal layers. The layers volition aid us to pigment the reflection easier subsequently on.

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Sky as well as cloud layers Read my other tutorials on anime cloud painting or await at the brush settings for prototype anime cloud.

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Main landscape layers read my other tutorials on anime tree painting or spotter a timelapse video of me prototype anime tree.

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water layer. Paint the H2O alongside a soft border circular brush. Try non to pigment it alongside exclusively ane enterprise color, the surface area virtually the Earth tin live inwards roughly other shade / hue.

Brush! It is possible to pigment all this alongside Photoshop default brush. Read my post service on how to pigment landscape using Photoshop default brush

Painting The Reflection

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 quickway to "paint" reflection for a broad angle scene similar this, is to flip business office of the prototype vertically as well as utilise motion blur to it. This is principal argue why nosotros desire to seperate the prototype into layers earlier.

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Duplicate (CTRL-J) the mount as well as grass layers as well as merge them (CTRL-E). Then, flip it vertically. Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical

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Apply vertical motion blur filter. Filter > Blur > Motion Blur. You tin adapt the opacity as well as contrast for the reflection layer too.

Painting The Water Wave

There are multiple ways to pigment the wave.

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One method I unremarkably utilise is to add together layer mask to the reflection layer nosotros did earlier. Then erase business office of the border on reflection layer.

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Ofcourse, nosotros tin nevertheless depict the moving ridge designing manually (in roughly other layer). If nosotros enable Outer Glow inwards layer styles for the moving ridge pattern, it volition laissez passer this sunlight reflection effect. Remember to utilization Linear Dodge or Screen layer blending means too.

More Tutorial! You tin read my other tutorials on how to practise custom H2O moving ridge brush inwards Photoshop.

Generating The Water Wave

We tin also generate the H2O designing using Motion Blur filter on noise or cloud image. Some animation practise utilization the procedural cloud texture to animate water.

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First, fill upwardly a layer alongside enterprise dark colour. The enterprise dark color is non a half-loading JPG =)

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Apply monochromatic dissonance filter to the dark layer. Filter > Noise > Add Noise.

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Apply motion blur filter to the dissonance image. Do non over blur the dissonance image, equally nosotros desire to retain roughly details inwards it. Filter > Blur > Motion Blur.

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Adjust the contrast the image. CTRL-L

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Then laid upwardly the layer blending means to screen

Other Reflection

Reflection of other object are done inwards the same means similar how nosotros did earlier.

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The plane on drift forest are painted inwards roughly other layer. I duplicate them, vertical flip as well as utilise motion blur filter on it. Remember to deed the reflection layer nether the H2O moving ridge designing layer.

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Same things are done to the cloud as well as heaven layers. Flip the duplicated prototype as well as vertical blur.

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If you lot await at photos reference, nosotros unremarkably won't come across the cloud reflection on H2O unless the H2O is still. It is upwardly to you lot whether you lot desire to include it inwards the lastly artwork.

Sparkly Effect

Photoshop bring this "star" brush past times default which you lot tin utilization to pigment this sparkly effect.

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Enable Outer Glow inwards layer styles as well as utilization Linear Dodge layer blending means for this layer.

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If nosotros pigment lots of them, nosotros volition bring this sparkly H2O effect.

Artwork

Some of my lake scenery artwork I did inwards this few years.

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