Ghosthunter

[joeb]

The fog is in the image. Because the snow is white (almost: 254,254,254) it fools the eye into thinking the fog is an extension of it. I used 3 Alien Skin Nature filters. Smoke, Snow and Clouds. The background image is one of the earlier mountain screens flipped. Then I used the PS clone tool to duplicate the highest peak at a lower level. I then did some touch up with gaussian blur to blend the cloned area. Then I sharpened the edges a little for the Snow filter. Applied the snow filter and had it create the snow in a layer above. I hid the snow layer and used the magnetic polygon selection tool to select sky area above the mountain tops. I used the clouds filter to create another layer with just clouds. Hid that layer. Inverted the select to select the mountains. Used the smoke filter to create the fog. Then I removed parts of the filter layers and played with their opacity and positioning to get the blend to look right. When I liked the way it looked I did a select all and copy merged. I pasted that into a new PS document and saved it as background15.jpg.

Simple!

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What's cool is that EVERY background for GH was created from the same Bryce document that has the shroom castle (Ghost King's castle) on one side. By moving the camera around the mountain I get absolutely accurate lighting and consistent views. Then I post process in PS to get the effects like the snow and the lava. Here is the snow scene.

Joe B