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Create a tranquil landscape: Add a lake and the sky
From the course: Pixel Playground
Create a tranquil landscape: Add a lake and the sky
- [Instructor] This week we're going to finish our little serene landscape. We're going to create the lake and the sky. So now let's go here and start to create the lake. So in a new layer, let's get our layers and way in the back here, let's close this guy up. On top of the yellow background, we'll create a new layer which we'll call the lake. OK, so now, I'm going to get some colors for my lake so I'm going to get a nice blue, nice deep blue like this. Yep, that looks, that looks pretty good. Let's make a little darker. And for the background we'll pick a shade of that same blue, but go much lighter, say about that color. And I'm going to throw a gradient, just like I did for the path down here, I'm going to draw a gradient for our lake right there. OK, so now I'm going to take that layer and I'm going to duplicate it, so I have a second one, right there on top of there. And this one I'm going to give some noise. I'm going to go in there and say Add Noise. And I'm going to give it a…
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