How to Create a Fantasy Flying Land Illustration with Fire Effects

Learn to create a captivating fantasy illustration featuring a flying land on fire in this comprehensive tutorial. Master techniques for combining dragon images with cliff landscapes, adding lava and fiery effects, and enhancing the overall composition. Explore essential Photoshop skills including color balance, adjustment layers, gradient mapping, and various brushing techniques. Discover how to incorporate castles, manipulate lighting and shadows, and create realistic lava flows. Perfect your digital painting abilities as you bring this dynamic, otherworldly scene to life through step-by-step guidance on layering, image adjustments, and advanced filter applications.

Intro
Color Balance Layer
Mountain Image
Adjustment Layers
Gradient Map
Brightness Contrast
Adding Shadows
Soft Black Brush
Filter Noise
Castle
Clipping Mask
Black Soft Brush
Color Balance
Photo Filter
Gradient Mask
Adding Light
Adding Shadow
Adding Brightness Contrast
Group Layers
Painting the Castle
Adding the Dragons
Layer Adjustments
Curves
Lava
Layer Styles
Painting Lava
Shading
Breaking Apart
Lasso Tool
dragon II
sky
gradient
adding the image
darkening the sky
filter render