In this tutorial I wanted to create an image that would match a similar one I had of Journey, so I could print them both out for my wall. Therefore, I had quite a specific look in mind, which was: late sun flare through the mountain gap, dawn/dusk time.

In this tutorial we will be:

• Working on brightening Loki up
• Bringing texture and detail back into the clouds
• Adding the fake sun flare overlay
• Discussing how to keep light natural both with the fake sun and with this open landscape scene
• Adding some fake rim-light around Loki’s ears to keep the light natural
• Changing the colour balance to tint everything gold and slightly magenta
• Removing bits of grass
• And the normal process of dodge & burn, removing colour-casts from his chest and so on.