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A sky is scanned from a Dover book (Dover publishes old engravings and woodcuts, which are copyright free), and is placed in the border file. The sky is placed on a layer above the white background, but below the other layers. The white pixels of the sky line art are deleted (see step 2), leaving only the black lines. With preserve transparency checked, I filled the line art with a gradation of, medium golden brown to light yellow, using the gradient tool. Preserves transparency still checked, and I used the air brush tool, with a fairly large brush size, to spray some pinkish colors onto the lines. I put a graduated color behind the sky line work, which is in color now. For this graduated background I chose colors that are about 50 percent less in value and slightly different in hue, than the colors in the sky line work, just to make it more interesting. The sun, which is going to be covered up by a graphic panel anyway, would be difficult to explain. Basically, a circle marquise was made and featured for the sun, saved as a channel and adjusted so it fit behind the mountains. That selection was filled with light yellow and then with the airbrush tool, the middle part of the sun was painted white. The rays were drawn with the pen tool, selected, featured and filled with white on a new layer above the sky lines and sky background. The mode of the rays layer is changed to, I don't remember, I think to overlay, and the transparency of the layer adjusted. View a detail of sky color.
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