Photoshop Tutorial - Realistic Clouds

Realistic Clouds

This tutorial will show you how to use photoshop's cloud filter to create realistic looking clouds .

	Start a new document any size you want. Create a new layer, and fill it with a Linear gradient of dark blue to lighter blue. Darker blue: #395D9E Lighter blue: #6A9BC9
	-Create a new layer. - Press D to reset your color pallete - Go to Filter » Render » Clouds. - Then Filter » Render » Difference Clouds. - Press CTRL+F twice. - Set the clouds layer blending mode to: Screen
	Go to image » Adjustments » Levels. And set the input values to: 20, 1.00, and 120
	Duplicate the cloud layer (Press CTRL+J). Then go to Filter » Stylize » Extrude:
	Reduce to Opacity of the original cloud layer to 70%, and the extrude layer to 50% Now select the extruded cloud layer and apply a gaussian blur with 5.0 px setting. (Filter » Blur-Gaussian Blur)
Now I will show you how to use it in an image. I got this image below which I removed the sky in the background.
Now this image, I create the clouds and put it behind the mountain, but it looks rather fake because its too flat.
Now we need to distort the clouds a little, so link the extruded clouds layer and the original clouds layer together Then go to Image » Transform » Skew. and drag the top left and right handle up and outward.
This now give us a more realistic sky. DOWNLOAD PSD FILE

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Vmax Feb/08/2010 00:36Hi When I used in my Image 16bit/Channel It doesn't worked After Referring your Tutorial I've changed to 8bit/channel. I don't know why it worked. any Idea with these? TUTOR Helped a Lot with the Sample.Good Thanks for the tutor.

AG Feb/02/2010 08:16is suprb....

nonyaaaaa. Dec/12/2009 01:51lmfao yah this, sucksss !

Juippi Nov/11/2009 18:47Sorry that looks really shitty.

saida Oct/31/2009 03:21It is nice

jithu Sep/09/2009 14:51hey dude its amaizing

matt Aug/24/2009 02:33Mine turned out black and white also ... There is some omitted data in your tutorial ... If one follows your instructions exactly, the clouds after Filter>Render>Clouds and Filter>Render>Difference Clouds are black and white, not the blue and white shown in your example picture. So there must be a missing instruction which I have been unable to fathom.

idk Apr/18/09 00:15mine turned out black and white!

Cali Apr/16/09 00:04its cool but its hard to figure out. the difference clouds and other things didn't work for me.

Anandraj Jan/29/09 16:49Thank u very much it's very very useful to us and very easy to learn Once again thanking you regards Anandraj

neil Jan/29/09 16:10i get ur tutorial but when tried it's not making in ur style like u have made in blue

ria harista Jan/17/09 14:23i luv this effect, it's cool & not very difficult to try..........

shree Dec/31/08 16:25Great...thanks dude..you make it Simple...

pia Nov/15/08 22:06my adobe is 5.0 how to do that on my adobe

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jhaztine Oct/6/08 21:39its my first time to learn dis kind of stuff im not really good yet thanks to this turotial i now know. thanks a lot.

Christie Bella Sep/23/08 11:03nevermind- i think i answered my own question- rather than adjusting the levels on the difference clouds layer- which i just did & it finally worked- i was adding an adjustment layer to the entire image. got it. now i can stop spazzing... i just hate when i dont "get" something- i cannot leave it alone until i finally understand! it's so annoying:P

Christie Bella Sep/23/08 10:52i cannot figure out what the problem is but when i apply the Levels Adjustment Layer- and enter the numbers into the "input" fields that you have (20, 1.00, 120), the blue in my image turns like a bright aqua color. i tried to redo it about 8 times already- it's not as if this is an incredibly difficult tutorial- i mean seriously- i decided to try it out just to see another persons way of making realistic clouds, thinking i'd be all quick with it & now it's frustrating the HELL out of me- what the ef am i doing wrong? haha. i cannot figure out why my levels adjustment is all screwy... (?)

wale Sep/14/08 05:45cool

ZuxraM Sep/11/08 19:02Yo, Very Good.. I used it a lot...ssss

anita yadav Aug/8/08 12:23it is nice & great

JAWBREAKER Jul/22/08 21:19..waaah a good and learningful session,,i like it,,more gutz,,mumumuerte

KATE May/20/08 06:01great tut, thanks!

Arshad May/9/08 21:15its amazing

m g Apr/7/08 22:09knocking up a tutorial is hard work some times (i should know) so! people when some one does "don't complain", you would all be very stuck otherwise!! just be greatful and go back to your un-skilled meaning less lives :) figuratively speaking of course... Very well done to anyone that can be bothered to make a tutorial and not a bad job at all...

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