AWQ 3MI – Creating a Dramatic Landscape in Photoshop

Before you start creating your own personal landscape, let’s organize some of the practice work that you’ve done over the past few weeks.

Start by creating a project folder titled: Photoshop Landscape

Inside this folder you will place: Your best two dramatic sunset photos (titled “Dramatic Sunset-01.jpg” and “Dramatic

Sunset-02.jpg”) The practice landscape we just created in Photoshop (titled “Practice Landscape.jpg”) The screenshot you took of your practice landscape, showing the various layers (titled

“Practice Screenshot.png”)

Photoshop Landscape Assignment

Now that you have learned a number of methods for combining and manipulating images in Photoshop, you are going to create a Photoshop Landscape using photographs found online.

Requirements: An interesting sky (sunset, sunrise, storm clouds, etc.) A landscape that combines the foreground from one photograph and the midground

from another An obvious centre of interest in your landscape (this can be part of the foreground

photo you select, or it can be something you add from another image) Something interesting added to the sky, other than birds (if you want to use birds, then

add something else as well) Different techniques used to make the lighting more dramatic (gradient layers, dodging

and burning, painting in lighter areas, etc.) A well-placed text element (can be a single word, or a short quotation) A screenshot showing all the layers in Photoshop (titled: “Photoshop Landscape

Screenshot.png” Your finished landscape photo should be saved as a JPEG, with all layers merged

together (titled: “Photoshop Landscape.jpg”) A subfolder (titled: “Images”) that contains all the photos you used to create your

landscape

Hints & Tips: When searching for images, set the Search Tools in Google to “Large” images As you work in Photoshop, give all of your layers a title according to the content Remember that it’s easier to cut out images if they have clear, well defined edges Refer to the “Intense Landscape Tutorial” document for detailed instructions on the

various techniques we practiced in class

Mark Sheet

Category Mark Comments

PROJECT FOLDER labelled:

Photoshop Landscape /2

PROJECT FOLDER contains:

Dramatic Sunset-01.jpg

Dramatic Sunset-02.jpg

Practice Landscape.jpg

Practice Screenshot.png

Photoshop Landscape.jpg

Photoshop Landscape Screenshot.png

/2

/2

/2

/2

/2

/2

IMAGES subfolder contains all individual photographs used to make the Personal Landscape /4

The final screen capture shows evidence of the required working layers

/2

The final landscape photo meets the requirements listed above and the individual layers have been successfully blended to create a dramatic image /10

Final Mark: /30