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40+ Examples of Beautiful Foggy/Misty Scenes Photography

carol — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:22:19 +0000

Photographing foggy/misty scenes requires much skill from the photographer. Fog usual occurs in the evening and lasts until early morning. Very often over water as the water is warmer than the surrounding air.

Fog and mist naturally knock out colour, rendering the scene quite ‘flat’ and lacking in contrast, so longer exposure times are required to achieve a good photograph. When there is light involved, generally at night, the fog/mist create refraction which can fool the camera’s light monitor – these are a couple of the obstacles the photographer faces when shooting foggy/misty scenes, and where great skill is required.

This round-up brings you more than 40 outstanding and beautiful photographs shot in foggy/misty weather.

Fog in the Forest

Fog

Shrouded in Fog

Fog with Tree

Fog

In the Fog

The Fog’s a-rollin’ in

Ghosts in the Fog

Canada Geese in Morning Fog

Brooklyn Bridge in Fog

Fog Alley

Melancholic

Fog at the Golden Gate

Fog

Fog Forest

Shuswap Fog

Fog 3

Fog on the Tyne

Fog on the Water

Fogged

Blue Mists at Snoqualmie Falls

Mist in the Andes, Peru

Morning Mist

Mists over Victoria Falls

Creeping Mist

Mist 10

Lost in the Mist

Mist on the Dordogne River

Hedgehog in the Fog

Fishing in the Fog

Mist in Harbour

Awakening

Searching

Fading

Jump

Dreams

Waiting for the Miracle

The First Scene

Untitled

Drifting..

Revealed

Swimming in the Fog Morning

When we are out in fog or mist, there is a very creepy atmosphere, but good photography can change that creepiness into a soft, gentle moodiness.

I hope you have enjoyed viewing these outstanding examples of foggy/misty photography. Please leave any comments and acknowledgements for the photographers/photos in the comments section below.

Photo to Watercolour Painting Action for Photoshop

carol — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:33:20 +0000

Here is a Photoshop action that will give a photo a watercolour painting effect.

When using this action, if the effect is too much and is knocking out all the details, reduce the opacity of Layer 1 and/or Layer 1 copy 2

I hope you like this action, can use it and enjoy it!

Click on the image to download the .atn file

Unrealistic Natural Cloud Formations

carol — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:53:42 +0000

The title seems to be a contradiction in terms: how can natural cloud formations be unrealistic? But it does happen, and often!

Many times I look at the sky and consider that if an artist faithfully represented the cloud formation it would be considered unrealistic as a painting - which throws a shadow over the concept that artists are only limited by their own imagination - that is, if they want their art to appear realistic!

The best times to catch unrealistic cloud formations are sunrise and sunset and before, during or after a storm, however, strange formations can occur at any time of the day, any time of the year.

Here is a selection of beautiful but unrealistic natural cloud formations produced by outstanding photographers.

Click on any image to visit the page of origin

I hope you have enjoyed viewing these wonderful photographs - and did you agree with me that they are quite unrealistic natural cloud formations?

Please leave any comments or acknowledgements for the photos/photographers below.

New Year Gradients for Photoshop

carol — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:37:08 +0000

Here is a set of 20 gradients for Photoshop. I have called them 'New Year' simply because they were created at the beginning of the year. There is no real theme to them, just a collection of gradients that will hopefully be useful.

Although many designers don't like to use pre-made gradients, they can be a good starting point for creating your own, therefore saving a lot of time - always a bonus for busy designers!

Click on the image to download the .grd file.

Stunning Snowy Scene Photography

carol — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:36:35 +0000

Snow is a very unforgiving type of weather – it is cold, icy and generally dangerous to be out in. However, there is no doubt it is beautiful – nature plays tricks with us with snow!

For those of us who see snow most years, it is difficult to imagine there are people in this world who have never seen it – I expect that is the same vice versa too!

Here I have collected a selection of 30 snowy scene photographs that are of picture postcard quality. The beauty of the scenes draw us in… but beware, snowy weather will chew you up and spit you out!!

Click on any image to visit the page of origin

I hope you have enjoyed viewing these beautiful photographs depicting snowy scenes.

Please leave any comments or acknowledgements for the photos/photographers below.

Red Sunset PSD Colouring File

carol — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:34:37 +0000

Today I am bringing you a .psd colouring file that will turn a daytime photograph to a red sunset.

The beauty of .psd files is that all the adjustment layers are available for making your own desired changes, and although for most images not a lot of tweaking should be necessary, the facility is invaluable to get the exact effect you require.

I hope you have a use for this and enjoy it!

Click on the image below to download the .zip file

Beautiful Scenic Digital Paintings

carol — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:52:05 +0000

It must be wonderful to be an artist and be able to create stunning pieces of work from scratch, and these days there is such a lot of outstanding digital art around, there is a huge amount of talent out there!

Here we bring you a collection of some beautiful digital scenic paintings. Some are scenes that are quite real – or could be, others are fantasy scenes, and some are somewhere between the two, with elements of reality and elements of fantasy – they are all examples of stunning digital art.

Into the Unknown

Swamp Fever

Adamant Citadel

Susan Constant

The Great Hike

Ancient Falls

Forgotten Glory

The Nightmare Academy

Terry Goodkind ‘Chainfire’

An-Thonn Gate

Winter is Coming

Out There

Valley

Port

New World

Monitor vs Warrior

Urban Lights

Bat Jump

Trollskogen

Jungle Palace

Summer Time

Mountain Backdrop

Gnomon

City Lights

Cave Interlude

Climbing

We found the gate to…

Die Scherenschleiferin

Snowboard

The Tower of Babylon

London 2063 After Midnight

I hope you have enjoyed viewing these outstanding works of art. Please leave any comments or acknowledgements for the art/artists below.

Bright Christmas Texture – Free Download

carol — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:53:41 +0000

As the season is approaching very rapidly, I have created a bright, colourful texture for free download.

The size is 3000 x 2000px, 72ppi resolution.

This texture gives some wonderful results overlaid on snowy scene backgrounds with a layer blending mode applied. The image below shows the results of 4 such blends.

I hope you have a use for this texture.... Enjoy!

Click on the image to download the .zip file.

Dark, Grainy Portrait PSD – Free Download

carol — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:00:19 +0000

Today I have created a psd colouring file that gives a dark, grainy effect for portrait photographs.

There is a texture included with this file. If the texture is too small for your image, simply use the Transform tool to resize it to cover the canvas.

I hope you have a use for this and enjoy it!

Click on the image to download the file.

Photoshop Tutorial – Colouring Quick Tip

carol — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:00:53 +0000

There are many, many brushes available for Photoshop, and combining brushes with Photoshop’s layer modes can create some stunning colouring effects.

For this quick tip in colouring in Photoshop you will need brushes that have shading – solid shapes will not work with this method.

Using just a few colours and different layer modes you can create art with subtle shade differences, and the variances are almost endless – this is a great way to learn how the layer modes work, you can adjust, readjust and adjust again until you achieve the desired effects.

I used my Christmas Cheer brushes for this tutorial, and they can be downloaded here

Step 1

Create a new file using the following settings:

Create a new layer and fill with #F3EBD6

To create the background texture:

Filter>Texture>Texturiser

Apply the following settings:

Step 2

Create a new layer

With black as the foreground colour, select the Brush tool and select Christmas Cheer 8 brush and resize to around 900px.

Click once on the canvas.

Step 3

Create a new layer and name it ‘Red’

Set the foreground colour to #F22626

Set the layer mode to Overlay

Select the Brush tool, a smallish round brush set to about 50% hardness and paint the strip ribbon.

Step 4

Create a new layer and name it ‘Berries’

Set the foreground colour to #A02525

Set the layer mode to Color

With the Brush tool again set to about 50% hardness, paint the berries

Step 5

Create a new layer and name it ‘Green’

Set the foreground colour to #25430A

Set the layer mode to Color

With the Brush tool, paint the fir leaves.

Step 6

Create a new layer and name it ‘Bow’

Set the foreground colour to #CAB15A

Set the layer mode to Overlay

With the Brush tool, paint the bow and the inlay on the back ribbon strip

Step 7

Create a new layer and name it ‘Bells’

Set the foreground colour to #E8A30E

Set the layer mode to Soft Light

With the Brush tool, paint the bells

As I stated at the beginning of this article, you can change the layer modes for different effects. Here are 3 versions. None of the colours have been changed, only the layer modes and opacities have been adjusted. The first one is the result of the above instructions.

The following example used a .png image of a dragon. The first image is the original, the second has had a Black & White adjustment layer applied, set to Maximum White. I then reduced the opacity of the dragon to around 85% and coloured using layer modes to achieve the final result.

As you can hopefully see, this method is very versatile. You can use brushes or images, and if required, you can get different variations without changing the colours.

I hope you have found this helpful. Please leave any comments or links to your own results below.