Shadowed Horizons is a collection of 10 dark and dramatic tonalist landscape backgrounds designed for photographers who love depth, distance, and atmosphere in their work.

These painterly scenes feature expansive skies, and wide, distant landscapes which create a true sense of place. Each piece carries a moody tonal range and layered depth, allowing your subject to settle naturally into the scene without competing with it.

The beauty of this collection lies in its space.

The distant horizon lines and atmospheric perspective make these backgrounds ideal for:

• Placing smaller subjects into vast, dramatic landscapes
• Creating storytelling composites with a sense of scale
• Using as richly textured portrait backdrops behind close-up subjects
• Adding emotional depth and quiet intensity to wildlife or fine art photography

These painterly environments are grounded, expansive, and filled with subtle movement. Shadowed Horizons invites your subject into the distance…where light fades gently, the air feels heavier, and the story deepens.

Mask your subject's photographic background away to blend right in with this variety of scenic backgrounds, creating new works of art featuring your favorite subject(s). Though these were designed by me to be used with animals and birds, they can also be used with people and other subjects. You can also use these backgrounds as the beginning for your digital paintings, whether hand painted or painted in various digital software.

Use these backgrounds "as is" to add a painterly feel to your photographs by placing them on a layer under your subject and masking away the subject's original background. Using your transform tool in your software, you can stretch them and position them exactly where you need them for your art. These also make wonderful beginning backgrounds for your digital paintings!

This collection contains a total of 10 backgrounds. Download is presented as ONE (1) large zip file. Backgrounds are horizontal scenes and are 6000x4000 pixels in size presented as large size JPG files. Due to the large file size, the download may take several minutes to complete, depending on the speed of your internet connection.

This resource is made available in accordance with our commercial use license. Please read the license before purchasing.