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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.

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User Comments

ABDUL WAHAB Aug/07/2010 14:00very beautifull this image . nice and thnkszzz
Brian Catillo Jul/23/2010 13:30nice try!great
SHIVAM Jul/21/2010 15:18that was interesting and short tutorial thanx
ramana Jul/08/2010 19:28so nice dude, thank u
Shujah Jun/15/2010 22:38That was the shortest and sweetest tutorial, neat.
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asa Apr/15/2010 03:55ok so all you dumb people who said that it turned out black and white, well you gotta remember to screen that layer. and he said that in the tutorial you just weren't paying attention.
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.
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Juippi Nov/11/2009 18:47Sorry that looks really shitty.
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