Not So Surreal

So I’m not going to be known for awesome surreal landscapes anytime soon but this was fun to play with.

I don’t have a tutorial or any tips; this is really just a random photo I thought I’d share. I’ve seen many awesome surreal images and wanted to play with the idea myself. While looking for tips on how to do this I did find something kind of useful; I found quick post on Faking A Photoshop Layer Mask In Photoshop Elements.

All I really did was layer several photos, or parts of photos, and create this fake layer mask between them to help blend them together. I think I need to find some more tutorials on how to do this, but for now, I took these random photos, a dot of yellow “paint”, some lighting filters, and a little time…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

… and came up with this…

A Not So - Surreal Kansas Landscape

That orange sunset just kind of disappeared in there somewhere.

Yep; I have much to learn about Photoshop.