In this tutorial I will teach you how to create a grass scene in Photoshop. You can use this tutorial to create pretty nice looking cartoon inspired images as well. It is very easy to do with just a few steps. Lets get started, shall we.

Step One

Create a new document in Photoshop. I went with 550px wide by 350px high.

Step Two

Create clouds using a white background and a baby blue color foreground (#2fdfff).

Filter > Render > Clouds

Step Three

Create a new layer and apply the cloud again this time making the new layer 70% opacity.

Step Four

Create another layer and make this layer have a Linear Burn with 59% opacity.

Step Five

Lets start to create the grass now. You need to reset your brushes if you do not append new brush sets in. To reset the brushes, click on the brush tool, , then click the drop down (red color) then the over arrow (yellow color) and choose Reset Brushes.

Once you reset them, or if you append your brushes, we are looking for this brush:

Step Six

We need to add some dynamics to this brush, so pull up your brushes set (f5 on PC). Use the following settings:

Color Dynamic is very important because when you pick your foreground and background colors, the color dynamics will use colors within that realm. Doing so will give the grass a seasonal look. You will not see the changes in the preview box, but once you start painting, they are there!

Your brush preview screen will now look like this:

Step Seven

We need to change the color of the foreground and background now. You want to use two shades of green, one darker than the other. For the foreground use a dark green (#136500) and for the background use a lighter green (#2cc729).

Also, change the size of the brush to 52px.

Step Eight

Create a new layer, and start painting! Start about midway to three quarters down your background, and start painting and move downward with your brush, never go up (I will show you soon why).

What happens if you make an error and you need to go back to the top to level out the grass? If you do, that is fine, do not worry about it, but your image will end up looking like this:

Notice how the left side looks all messy compared to the picture before this? Well, no worries, just repaint starting from the top, going down.

Here is my edited grass using the last picture:

Step Nine

It looks good, but lets add some more depth to it. So, after you are satisfied with your grass, drag it to copy the layer.

Change the new copied layer to Color Burn and the Opacity to 33%.

Step Ten

We look like we are done, but I think the clouds could use some more coloring. With your paint brush, set it to a circle, with a diameter of 30px and a hardness of 0%. Also, change the flow to 20%.

Create a new layer and with your foreground being white, paint some extra clouds. You can mess around with the dynamics to the brush if you want, I didn’t and this was my outcome.

Step Eleven

Do the same as step 10, this time instead of white, use a baby blue color (#4ee4ff).

There you have it. You have an awesome looking cartoon grass effort.

HELP SPREAD THE WORD!

Related Posts

• Tutorial: Candy Cane Text
• Tutorial: The game of pool – The Ball!
• Tutorial: Make yourself look thinner!
• Tutorial: ‘Press’ your text into the background.