Original Art Painting On a Digital Canvas - Photoshop Tutorial - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Set the opacity of the blurred noise layer to about 50%.

This is what you got so far…

Original Art Painting On a Digital Canvas - Photoshop Tutorial - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Flatten the image.

Select (manually), using the marquee tool, the lower part of the canvas (“water”)

Go to Filter >> Artistic >> Cutout and apply these settings for the cutout effect.

Remember, we are making a painting, it should look as it it was made using a brush!

Original Art Painting On a Digital Canvas - Photoshop Tutorial - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

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Now (while your “water” is still selected) go again to Image >> Adjustments >> Hue / Saturation, check the “colorize” box and make the water a bit greenish…

Original Art Painting On a Digital Canvas - Photoshop Tutorial - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Create a new layer. Using the round brush (with sharp edge), go over the horizon line that separates water from the sky, as shown below:

Original Art Painting On a Digital Canvas - Photoshop Tutorial - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Select the eraser tool and remove everything that was below the water line, see pic below:

Original Art Painting On a Digital Canvas - Photoshop Tutorial - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Make a new layer again, select a sharp round brush of a huge size (about 200px) and make a stamp on a place where you intend to make your full moon.

Original Art Painting On a Digital Canvas - Photoshop Tutorial - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Go to Layer>> Layer Styles >> Outer Glow and apply glow using the white color…

Original Art Painting On a Digital Canvas - Photoshop Tutorial - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

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In your layers panel, select the background canvas (where we have the sky and water) and apply this lightening effect from the center of the “moon”, but not on the moon’s layer!