Bert Monroy’s digital paintings are known for their photo-realism and natural details, such as dappled light filtering through tree leaves onto a polished desk or an ominous sky drenching Central Park with heavy rain.
In this excerpt from his book, see how Monroy adds brooding clouds and torrential rain to a digitally captured photograph through a liberal use of basic filters. Similar techniques can be used to add snow, fog, or other elements of nature to almost any scene. Here’s how Bert does it.
We’ve posted this story as a PDF file. All you do is click this link “Creating the Elements” to open the PDF file in your Web browser. You can also download the PDF to your machine for later viewing.
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This article was last modified on July 18, 2023
This article was first published on June 4, 2003
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