7. At the moment, we have too many blurry edges, and this messes the image quite a lot. So, let's paint some vegetation. We pick the color of each layer and we paint the edges. I use 2 brushes quite often, one for the overall image (which i use for almost everything) and the other one for vegetation. Lots of people have the tendency to use soft edged brushes, big mistake. That's good for fog, light etc.
8. And the result:
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9. Now we start to enlighten a bit the areas that are directly exposed to sunlight. In order to do that i use the same "universal" brush with a color dodge transfer and decreased opacity, sometimes 9, even 10.
10. And the result:.
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11. Next comes the castle.
The problem I encountered here was a distorted perspective.
One of the methods used to solve it when it comes to buildings is to cut it to pieces and to bring it to the perspective you need, using distort or perspective tool. In this particular case i cut it in 2 pieces.
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12. Did the exact same thing with the base structure the building is set on. Copy/Paste, Transform/Distort.
