Countryside – Miss Koppejan

Instructions:

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Sky

Set the primary color to blue. Select the Gradient Tool.

Click and drag down on the canvas. [Enter] to set the colors.

Your Background layer should now look something like this…

Mountains

Draw Mountain on the Right

Insert a new layer.

Select the Line/Curve tool. In the tool optoins, set the thickness to “10“.

Select the dark grey color.

Draw a line across the canvas, doing a little outside the edges, near the bottom like this…

Drag the circles/points to adjust the curves to get the mountain on the right.

Double-click on the layer and rename it to “mtn”.

Insert another new layer and rename it “mtn 2”.

Draw a line across the canvas, going outside the edges. Then curve the line to get a mountain on the left, leaving a nice area for the sun between the mountains. [Enter] to set the line…

Make sure you drew the line in the new layer…

Fill Mountains

Select the Paint Bucket tool. Change the color back to light grey or another light color you like.

Make the bottom mountain layer active first. Then click inside the mountain area and [Enter] to finish.

Make the top mountain layer active and fill with the same color or a different color…

When you [Enter], you will see this…

Save

CTRL+S to save your file. Then:

click on the COMP 6 folder on the left
Type “countryside” for the file name
Click on Save.

Sun

Insert a new layer. Rename it ‘sun’.

Select the Shapes tool, then go to the top and select the Ellipse option.

Then set it to draw Fill & Outline mode. Set the outside and inside colors.

Click and draw out a circle/oval for the sun

Move the layer down below/behind the mountains. Select the Move tool and position it where you like it. [Enter] to get rid of the dotted outline.

Grass

Grass 1

Add a new layer, rename it “grass”. Make sure it’s at the top.

Select the Shape tool… set it to Fill

Reset the color back to default, then choose a green grass color.

Zoom out and draw a big oval so it’s something like this…

Click off to set the shape.

Grass 2

Insert another new layer, rename it “grass 2”

Change the color to a darker/lighter green.

Then drag out another oval for the front grass…

Click off to set the shape

Tree

Trunk

Add a new layer, rename it “trunk”.

Choose the Shapes Tool > set it to Trapezoid…

Choose a brown color for the tree…

Draw a trunk on the left side like this…

Tree

Insert another new layer, rename it “tree”.

Select the Shapes tool again… set to Ellipse and pick a color

Draw some ovals, overlapping, to create the tree shape…

Effects

Sun

Select the sun layer.

Then go to Effects > Blur > Gaussian Blur… and drag the slider up until you have a blurred sun like this…

Mountains

Select the left mtn layer.

Then go to Effects > Photo > Soften Portrait…(default settings)

Select the right mtn layer … then go to Effects > Repeat Soften Portrait at the top.

Grass

Select the grass layer.

Go to Effects > Distort > Dents…(default settings)

Select the grass 2 layer and go to Effects > Repeat Dents…

Tree

Select the tree layer…

Go to Effects > Noise > Add Noise…
- leave it to the default if you want a colorful tree
- drag the slider down for Color Saturation if you want it to be one color
Then go to Effects > Distort > Crystalize…