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Background tutorial

Panel selection and base colors:

Make a Selection the panel and fill the sky´s

area

Use two colors for the gradient tool

Using the pen tool and path selection tool

Fill all the shapes

All base shapes

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Using the watercolor brush:

Dark and light shades for the background blue rocks

Dark shades

Light shades

Now, for the trees

Use Vegetal brushes:

Download

http://www.djahalland.com/en/goodies?l=en&p=goodies 

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Dark sheets

Light sheets

Now add some moss:

WATER:

BLUR > Motion blur

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Finally go to: Layer > new adjustment layer > tone / saturation

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Anime effects:

Duplicate all layers merge the duplicates

Filters: Blur > Gaussian Blur 4,6 px

Use this layer mode:

HARD LIGHT

Opacity 35% or 50%

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To finish our work! I´ll add a grunge texture to make more realistic rocks

Textures examples:

It looks fine

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Resources:

Photoshop tools:

Photoshop CS – CS4 keyboard-shortcuts

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/jennifer/keyboard-shortcuts.html 

Naruto (c) Masashi Kishimoto

Tutorial by http://nanocigt.deviantart.com/