first again...:)god i'm on the ball tonight..:)i reckon its cool steve are the trees done in photoshop?i think it really good work..i didnt know you could draw like that in photoshop..i agree about hobbit too fantastic stuff

Thx Davy, and yes its pretty much all Photoshop :)

it real good for almost beign photoshop you deserve a vote for this peace of art kutter excellent work!!!!

Wow thats excellent work, it suprising what can be done with 2D programs, great image. Dave

Thats excellent work. Very impressive for 2D. The shadow of the main tree come up a little too soft (transparent). Looks like your using a similiar texture set throughout to what you use in Vue. The bushes come up very well. If you like 2D, do it, but I think I'll stick with 3D.

great picture u managed to get a beutifull blend

You did a fantastic job with this! :o)

Outstanding work! Would you consider posting a tutorial for all of us Photoshop-challenged people?

very impressive work. :)

Wow!! Outstanding artwork! The trees and bushes are excellent done!

Wow, brilliant, Kutter! I still struggle with Photoshop (gotta get a new tablet, methinks); Love the detail, and textures you used are great!

Wow, amazing!!!! Simply stunning work. Wow, I'm really speachless.

Wow!!! This is amazing , very well done:-)

Reflash, I cant take credit for this method. Its actually as old as grass (no pun intended - it really is LOL) All I did here is paint like you would with oil paints. Start with a dark background for the trees, and slowly build up at least one other colour on top to give the tree the correct lighting (this was easy as I knew where the light was coming from thanx to Vue) It's tricky to do this with a mouse, I use a graphics tablet, but it 'is' possible. Then make yourself a custom brush and make it foliage shaped (a bit like a 'D' on its side) Then just Paint black/dark brown patches where you want the foliage. On top put a lighter colour, then on top again put a lighter colour. The important things to remeber are... 1.NOISE !! This is your best friend!! It makes BAD pen strokes look very good! 2. Curves is also your best friend! Learn to use it by playing with it! 3.Do EVERYTHING on seperate layers (this way you can change each parts colour, and look indipendantly) Hope this helps, Kutter.

very cool method with this painting style! like it!

Great work, I'm still trying to get the hang of the basics of Photoshop and your knocking this sort of thing out, oh well! back to the manual..

Nice one... looks great :)

Nice work - definitely a more painterly style than you would normally get from Vue.
"I feel that Photoshop is equally as good at Landscape generation as Vue"... well maybe, but perhaps not for the more artistically challenged amongst us. It's a bit of a shock to my system at least to find myself back in an environment where I have to paint everything from scratch - no terrain generators, no pre-formed models - a factor that restricts the range of subjects I tackle in a 2D painting program in line with my limited draftsmanship. But yes, for those with the innate ability at drawing and painting, it's an excellent alternative.

Love those trees. They are a passion of mine. This is very nicely done. I just hope we'll have trees like that in 3d someday. Is it possible to change the angle of brushes in Photoshop? The tree on the right has the bark vertical all the way up and down the tree. Don't know if that's a limitation of the brushes or you meant it to be that way. I would love to see a tutorial on this method. I thought Hobbitt must be painting most of his images, because you can't get super trees like that in Vue and especially in Bryce at this point in time. Vue and the great modelers like Orio are getting closer all the time, though.

Fantastic picture and work!!!

Really Kutter, i think you should do more of these. You are obviously very skilled in hand-drawing. Marvelous work here. As someone who could hardly draw a circle, and uses Photoshop only for doing textures (And even that with a lot of pain) I can only envy you :)

Wow, this is great! Fantastic work!

I'm late seeing this so all I can say that hasn't been said is...all of the above! :)

Beautiful work indeed, wonderfully done...

Okay, jealous, jealous, jealous - okay, I'm over it. Kutter, this is darn amazing and quite fantastic. You have a tablet don't you? ;-) Very nice work. I like it a lot.

You did Excellent work with it,Fantastic Pic

Excellent work!

first i had you to tell this is a great one - very very well done - at second i wonder why people make differences between 3d 2d oil paintings airbrush and so on, think it is not important how you do a picture, the only important is the result - think i said this here at renderosity very often, but it is my opinion - and the result you get is boooooooooooah - excellent - and i mean not only this one the others that i saw in your gallery are stunning stuff as well. congratulations uwe - see you