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Crystal Mountains


Description: This tutorial is really just a random effect that I came up with after fiddling around in photoshop, but the end result looks rather nice. It shows you have to create what seems to look like a crystal looking mountain with grass on the walkway.

Start a new document 600x600.

Set your colors to default black and white by pressing "D".

Fill your background with black.

Now go to Filter->Render-> Difference Clouds.

Press CTRL+F 2 more times to apply it 2 more times.

Now go to Filter->Stylize->Wind
Method: Wind
Direction: From the Right

Press CTRL+F five times to reapply the wind filter 5 more times.

Now go to Image->Rotate Canvas->90CCW.

 

Now go to Filter->Sharpen->Unsharp Mask.

Amount: 500%
Radius: 2.0
Threshold: 0

Then Filter->Sharpen->Sharpen. do this twice.

 

Then Duplicate this layer, and hide the top layer. We'll work with the bottom layer now.

With the bottom layer selected, go to Image->Adjustments->Color Balance.

For each of the tone balance, set the following color levels.
Midtones: [-49] [+100] [-100]
Shadows: [-53] [-100] [-100]
Highlights: [-48] [-36] [-69]

Of course, you can play around with these tone balance settings, you can get really nice colors playing with these values.

Below is what I got in my final using the above settings.


Here is one using another tone balance setting.

User Comments

Henry | Aug/20/08 00:47
Wow, that's really awesome!
It looks so magical.. I wonder if some lighting effects would make it look even more awesome? Gotta try ;)

Keep it up!
Albarrán | Aug/16/08 08:47
lo sencillo es lo mas padre
MISSA | Jun/2/08 09:02
eitale
que onda primero que nada saludando0o
oie segui los paso0os de vdd que es muy facil
no me lo imaginaba,
oie publica mas fondo0os de efecto0os que son muy bueno0os en vdd,
y aparte con la explicacion tan clara
gracias un monto0on
eee!!!!!
sobres publica mas imagenes con efecto0os xfa
que son muy buenos
bye

: )
Heatcliff | May/3/08 19:59
really sweet effect, gonna try and figure out how I should incorporate it into some of my own creations. Thanks a bunch ^^
ryjek PL | Apr/9/08 15:41
good tutorial ... simple
amazing result ;)
keep going :D
taylor | Apr/4/08 04:21
this picture changed my life
woody | Apr/2/08 03:10
i like this one alot good creation
Felipe | Mar/18/08 07:52
genial!!... y aprendan ingles.. no es nada de dificil
Ana | Jan/16/08 09:23
Exelent, yo no escribir bien lengua española, pero deberian usar un traducor no ser flojos
aNaa | Nov/8/07 05:52
Está muy guapo el fondo y super fácil de hacer porque además mi Photoshop está en inglés
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