Hi Everybody,
So a bunch of people liked my fake lake photo that I did called "Calming Effect Of Water." So I decided to make another fake lake photo using a sunset photo I took last year. I'm simply inverting a copy of the horizon and then masking off the parts of the inverted image that don't look appealing. The whole process takes about 10 minutes. After that I do some color balancing, contrasting, and sometimes curves. Have fun making your fake lakes!
-Zak
Sunset on fake lake
Original Image
Photoshop Screenshot