Peggy's Cove

I went to Lucindawinds page and viewed her art,the two I picked out were….............

“Tranquility” and “The Reason for Lighthouses”.

I then contacted her,got permission to use them and had her email high res. images.
She also gave me ownership of said images,to use in any creations.

In Photoshop…

I put both photos on transparent layers,In Tranquility I erased the most of the sky,in Lighthouses I removed everything but the rocks.

I dragged the rock layer onto the Tranquility image and positioned it in the lower quadrant.
Then I took a good look and saw in my minds eye what I needed for a backdrop and also the colors.

Leaving the image on the right side of the screen,I opened my 3D rendering program Artmatic Voyager ( this is a Mac only program)
I then spent about 4 hours building and rendering an Alien Background.

I always render at the highest possible resolution and saving as a PICT file (on my machine that can take up to 6-7 hours,this one took 2 hours.)

Closing the Artmatic program and reopening the render in Photoshop,I then dragged it onto the transparent layer.

Now I needed lighthouses and I didn’t want to use the one in Lu’s image.
Needed something a bit more alien.

So I opened Infinity-D,and built myself 2 lighthouses,saving as psd transparent files.

Back in Photoshop I dragged and positioned both lighthouse layers onto the Tranquility photo.

Then feathered and cloned all the edges of all layers until they were blended to my satisfaction.

I then opened my filters and chose the “Old Photo Color” filter,tweeked,painted,erased the image then set the filter.

The filters I use are nik Color Efex Pro.

It still needed something…FOG..

Opened a “Graduated Fog” filter adding just a little fog with the paint brush on the horizon,this also goes aways to hiding any harsh edges in that area.

Almost done…

Added a bit of brilliance to the image.

Thats it and well worth the effort…another fine alien creation.

“May you always create well and prosper”