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Glacier Landscape Tutorial, Birdeye Glacier Landscape Tutorial


1. Make a new 500x500 image.

2. Filter -> Render -> Clouds.

3. Filter -> Render -> Difference Clouds.

4. Duplicate the original layer.

5. On the new layer go to Filter -> Render -> Fibers. Use 23 Variance and 4 strength and you should get something like this

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6. Change the blending mode to color dodge

7. Press Ctrl + E to merge the layers.

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You should have something like this.

8. Ctrl+U, click "colorize" and use hue: 220 Saturation: 60 lighten: 0 or any other bluish color.

9. Now, select Filter -> Distort -> Zigzag. Amount: 22 Ridges: 7 and the Style set to Pond Ripples

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10. Filter -> Pixelate -> Fragment

11. Now, Filter -> Distort -> Glass with the following settings.

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12. And finally Filter -> Brush Strokes -> Accented Edges with the following settings.

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All done. If all went well you should be looking at something similar to this

Glacier Landscape Tutorial: Final result Click to enlarge)
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Sometimes it takes a couple times to get one just right. The best things to mess around with are the glass and accented edges filters. Using 1 for edge width for accented edges filter gives a nice look, but makes it look like more something you see under a microscope then a landscape.



Author's URL: Koji
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