This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to complete an underwater landscape painting step by step. This is part one of a two part series. Seascape Painting Part II will show you how to draw the fishes and apply finishing touches to the painting.
Preview of Final Results
Painting Creating Fish in Seascap Part I Photoshop Tutorial
- Program: Photoshop 7
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Estimated Completion Time: 20 minutes
Step 1
Open a new project (16 x 20 inches, 300 pdi).Step 2
Use color #0095A2 and the paint bucket tool to fill in the background layer with a teal blue.Step 3
Make a new layer titled “ocean floor” above the background.Step 4
Block in the ocean foreground with color #A87300 (261 pixels, opaque, hard edged round brush).Step 5
Indicate the major shadows with color #926400 and the same brush.Step 6
Highlight the floor with color #AF7800.Step 7
Make a new layer “coral” above the other layers.Step 8
Now using color #C80059 (165 pixel brush), block in 2-3 coral bunches. These corals look kind of like little stubby trees, with short, rounded arms.Step 9
Now, using a 90 pixel opaque brush and color #AA004C add shadows to the coral.Step 10
Using the same brush, highlight the center of the coral stocks with color #E50066.Step 11
Use the magic wand tool to select the area around the coral. Now, select the inverse (shift + ctrl + I), and copy and paste the coral onto a new layer.Move the new coral so that it matches up with the coral beneath it.
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