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Create a tranquil landscape: Add a path and shrubs
From the course: Pixel Playground
Create a tranquil landscape: Add a path and shrubs
- [Instructor] Last week we started our little serene landscape by putting in some trees and some ground cover in foreground. This week what we're going to do is start to create the path and the balance of the scene here. So let's do this path right here. I'll create a new layer, right on top of the background, create a new layer and call it the path. I got some colors here. I've got this nice dark brown chosen and I have this much lighter tan chosen for the background. So what's going to happen is in that layer I'm going to take my gradient tool and let's just check we have this extra color in the last time we created that, so we'll just bring this all the way in like that, that's good, click okay. And in that layer I'll throw a linear gradient just like that, okay? So now I'm going to take this linear gradient and I'm going to give it a texture. So I come up to my filters and I go into my filter gallery. Filter gallery, where I have a sandstone already selected. I'm in texture…
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