The Making of Amsterdam Mist: The Natural Elements

Watch digital painter Bert Monroy paint the natural elements—the trees, water, and fog—in his painting Amsterdam Mist, using the tools in Photoshop CC.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. Trees

• Creating leaves
• Creating leaf variations
• Distorting leaves
• Creating a leaf brush: Trees
• Creating a leaf brush: Bushes
• Creating a leaf brush and adding leaves in water: Part one
• Creating a leaf brush and adding leaves in water: Part two
• Creating the basic shapes of the trees
• Creating tree bark
• Applying tree bark to a tree
• Adding shade to the tree bark
• Chopping a branch

2. Water

• Creating a water texture
• Adding reflections: Part one
• Adding reflections: Part two
• Adding reflections: Part three
• Adding puddles: Part one
• Adding puddles: Part two
• Adding puddles: Part three

3. Fog

• Creating a fog brush
• Creating layers for the fog: Part one
• Creating layers for the fog: Part two

Conclusion

• Next steps