Learn how to create realistic rocks and then how to blend them into an underwater scene with this photoshop tutorial.
Hello and welcome to another photoshop tutorial. Many of my visitors asked me for a photoshop tutorial showing how I did the rocks in the realistic alien water scene were made.
Here goes...Open a new document, mine is 640x480 px then go to the Filter menu and choose Render > Difference Clouds.
Now go to Filter > Render > Lighting Effects and select your light (spotlight) to come from top-left corner of your image, leaving all the other settings intact, like you see in my image below:
Your result should be similar to this:
Then go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise and set the Amount to 0.6%, Distribution to Gaussian and check Monochromatic.
Apply a Bas relief filter (from Filter > Sketch > Bas Relief) with the following values: Detail: 15, Smoothness: 2, Light: Top.
Now duplicate your background layer (go to Layer > Duplicate Layer...) and then aplly a Craquelure filter (Filter > Texture > Craquelure) with the following values: Crack Spacing:80, Crack Depth:4, Crack Brightness:5.
Using the Lasso Tool make a selection like you want your rock to look like. Flatten your image (go to Layer > Flatten Image) and copy from the new layer created.Open the image you want to blend your rock into. Paste the rock into a new layer
then press CTRL+U in order to modify the Hue/Saturation: check Colorize then use the following values Hue:220, Saturation:45, Lightness:-20.
Now you must darken some parts of your rock and lighten others. I darkened the right part of my rock using the Burn Tool and lightened the upper part using the Dodge Tool (on the next image you have blue arrows to show you where I've used the Burn Tool and a White arrow to show you where I've used the Dodge Tool).
Using the Burn Tool with a small brush selected make more cracks into our rock.
Hope you liked this photoshop tutorial. Thank you!I will be back with many more, until then check out some of my other photoshop tutorials:
17 comments:
hmm the sides still look a little bit "cut out" but its still great none the less.
It depends on how you choose the shape of your rock. In this case you can blur the edges with a small brush.
I'd tried to create the rock, but can't seem to get the surface fine enough, it became rough and the too contrast when I attempt to create the cracks, any more detail explanation on this? or maybe just ignore that step?
If you mean the step when you are using the Burn Tool, set the Range to Midtones and Exposure to 25-50%. Try different values for Exposure and see if you come up with better results.
am i the only one who doesn't know how to make an alien space ship?
The Alien Space Ship looks like it was adapted from an actual alien from the Alien Movie? (eg. Alien Resurrection) Looks really effective as a spaceship gj...but i'm probably wrong :)
Great tutorial, I agree that the burning is difficult but your explanation in the comments helps.
great tutorial
no mas q no entendi unas partes
i just did this tutorial and I happen to agree with robubie. I also took your advice and blurred the edges and it still looks cut out and obviously blury.
Great tutorials, I like your posters too, very inspiring. Please make a tutorial about the ship. Thank you.
Very nice tutorials all together. I too had to play with it a bit to get the effect I was looking for, but over-all you made it easy. Space ship request for me as well :)
Dude could u PLEASE finish this tutorial? I so want to do that fully
Please tell us how to make the rest
I thought this was a fantastic tutorial. I was able to get the rock effect like I wanted (I use the blur paint brush set at 139, normal, 50% strength) You just have to run it over the edges a couple of times in quick succession in the direction of your light source. I worked with a much smaller rock at first, and graduated to something a lot bigger.
I'd like to build the rest of this picture as I found it again to be really fantastic (though I'm already placing rocks all over the place...lol)
the tutorial is finished!
you have to be more creative and experiment with different values.
By the way its and awesome tutorial!
Im expecting more tutorials from you!
oh yea, the alien ship is indeed one alien of the movies Alien, it just has some effects on the tail and some rendering on the head that looks like lights
I LOVE your tutorials...you rock!! And you make it simple enough, anyone can do them. Thank-you!!
The texture came out amazing! Thanks.
Instead of the Lasso I used the quick selection tool. It gave the rocks a more rugged look.
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