The effect of Photoshop to make realistic ink

The author will teach you to use Photoshop to create a common landscape with Chinese traditional style of ink painting.

The final effect is shown in the following illustration:

Figure 01: Final Effect Diagram

Using tools: Photoshop CS4
Note: The shortcuts used in this paper are valid in the state of the English input method.

The first step: Prepare the material

Open a beautiful landscape as the material for this example, as shown in Figure 02.

Figure 02: Material Figure 1

As shown in Figure 02, the footage is really beautiful, but it always feels like something is missing. To make it look more romantic, we added a waterfall to it. You can choose the picture shown in Figure 03, or you can use your own material.

Figure 03: Footage 2

Open Waterfall Photos, select all (shortcut key is CTRL + a), copy (Ctrl + C). into the material 1, press CTRL + V paste, layer palette, the waterfall layer opacity to 75%, so that we put it in the right place. Perform the edit-free transform command (ctrl+t), place your mouse over the lower-right corner of the image, hold down the Shift key, drag the mouse, and zoom out, as shown in Figure 04, to make the waterfall look like it was left on the peak.

Figure 04: Adjust the size and position of the waterfall layer

Classification:

• PS Image Processing