Flooded

Storm: A violent disturbance of the atmosphere with strong winds and usually rain, thunder, lightning, or snow. Depending on the type of storm, a flood can also accure. That is what I decided to depict in my image this week. I started sketching some images dealing with water and flooding and rain. After finding a tutorial for a flooded city (link here) and a tutorial for rain (link here) I found my two main images, New York City and an Ocean image.



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Original New York Image



Original Ocean Image

I then cut out the sky from the New York Image. Placing the Ocean image overtop I decided which buildings would appear above water level. I used the quick selection tool to select the different buildings and delete the selection from the Ocean image.



New York Image without sky



Ocean Image with Building cutouts



Flooded New York City

To make this image more realistic I added some rain. I followed the tutorial and darkened the sky by painting with a lower opacity black brush.



Rain Tutorial in progress

Below is the screen shot of the final photoshop image.




Final PSD Image