Tutorial 001 : Beautiful floating island

Step 1 – Prepare the background

Create a new document with this size: 500/570 pixels.

Let’s start by preparing the background. Because this island is on the air, our background will be the sky. Set the Foreground Color #58b4cf and the Background Color white.

Create a new layer and call it Sky Layer. Go to Filter – Render – Clouds. Now we have a nice background sky .

Step 2 – Draw the Island

I’ve noticed that other people use photos for the island and make photomontage. I’ve decided to draw my own island…I will use photos for ground and grass texture. Maybe in another tutorial I will try the other method also.

With the Pen Tool draw a shape like in the picture below. This shape must cover half of the image, bottom area. Call this layer Island Layer.

(to be continued)