PSD Atmospheric Depth

The goal is, to set up different layers to generate a sense of depth and atmosphere in your art.

Here are some tricks:

On the background layer, put a gradient or some clouds.

For the farthest back layer, use a Guassian blur to blur back the image and its edges.

Above the farthest back or mid-range layer, add a clouds filter layer set to Overlay mode.

In the midrange and other layers, fill with gradients to suggest a sense of changing density in vertical space.

In the foreground layer, sharper of do whatever you can to make the layer appear very close.

This does not take into account light source, which we will address elsewhere.