Fable of the Night - Matte Paintingby Andrew Teng, Indonesia


After that I make a light for the left town/city ( I open the smart object then zoom it to 200% then put yellow color on it) and for some green and red light. I use small dot from brush then make it have "outer glow" after that change the blending mode to color dodge, sometimes you can use linear dodge, it depends on the taste what you have in the picture.


In the below picture, I didn't done much, I only put a moon with outer glow and some glowing stars.


On the below 2 pictures, I try to make a beam / ray light from sky to a central town/city, I use brush tool to make it from scratch with light red color... After that I use radial blur with zoom blur method.

After that I done a scaling of it to make it a little soft but don’t do too much... For the dot light that come down from the sky, I use a dot with outer glow then choose color dodge, remember, when you make a spiral do a brush preset first, then make a brush which have enough spacing for making light ( I use pen tablet so it's really easy to make a spiral ). Some of dot maybe you don't need it, then you can erase it..

For the color, you can make it different color, at least 3 color with color dodge blending mode, So the rest of it, it's color dodge duty to make different color  :-)

Remember it for the layer order, because it's really important .. for the ray light I put between town and cloud, so it's front of the town/city but behind the cloud.


Below are the closeup pictures, I crop it from my original size :)




Final Image