Cloud Tutorial

[Guest]

Hey. I wanted to share this nice effect I found while plying around. It looked like you are facing up and the clouds look very real. Sorry, I don't have pics.

1. Make a new file. Pretty much any size will do, just make sure it's reasonable. I am using Default Photoshop Format. The background should be white.

2. Change the two colours that you have on your toolbar to a light blue (I like cyan for this) and white.

3. Go to Filters->Render->Clouds. You should have...blue clouds.

4. Now, go to Filters->Render->Difference Clouds. Your blue areas should now be red. If so, you have a good blue for this.

5. Repeat this about 8 more times. CTRL+F is a shortcut to do whatever filter you did last (Difference Clouds). The result MUST have the clouds as red.

6. Now, go to Layer->New Adjustement Layer->Gradient Map. My window (I have CS2) is called, at the top, 'New Layer' and there aren't any graphics on it. Again, sorry about no pics.

7. Click OK. Now, a new window comes up that is called 'Gradient Map'. There is one gradient menu on it. Click the gradient.

8. Now, another window comes that is called 'Gradient Editor'. This window is larger. At the top, there is a menu of gradients. Click on the little arrow for gradient presets and choose the one called 'Special Effects'. A new set of gradients is now visible. Choose the one that goes from white to blue to black.

9. Look at your image (select preview if it isn't selected). Now, there is a big gradient bar at the lower part of that window. Notice the little tabs at the bottom. Grab the dark-blue one and drag it around. Look at your image. Once satisfied (this will be the final result), press OK.

10. Press OK on the 'Gradient Map' window and you're done!

NOTE-Clearly, the results WILL vary, so if it doesn't look good, start over with another blue. The process isn't long at all, max 30 seconds.

Anyway, it looked too real not to tell the world about it. If this was made up, sorry, but I haven't seen or heard about it anywhere.

If someone could be kind enough to get the pics, that would rock!

Thanks.

[Murdernickle]

Well you could do your own pictures. Just push "prt scrn" then create a new document and press ctrl + v to paste it. Then crop out the extra bits and host them on some image host. I highly recommend http://www.imageshack.us

[DEVs]

Or you could make an account on [link]

I will post pics when i have the time to do this tutorial been abit busy lately trying to find a job

[Murdernickle]

I used to use photobucket, but then it started dropping files constantly and you notice that flea's sigs were out for the longest time. Also they only let you use up to 500kb files. Imageshack lets you go up to 1.5mb and i've never had a file dropped.

[DEVs]

lol im sure that fleas sigs were on imageshack.us :S

[Murdernickle]

haha thus the cute little "Oops...looks like this image no longer exists on photobucket" image

[Flea]

it didnt drop my sigs i deleted them and never got round to putting my new one in you should try doing screen caps to help this tutorial as i couldnt folo it but then again im dumb!

[DEVs]

Ok but were did you host them from ? lol but yeh see it never dropped them

[Murdernickle]

:p Oh devs, I love ya haha. You keep your photobucket and I'll keep my imageshack

[Flea]

i hosted them at photobucket

[Jeff]

Very cool tut here, l love seeing different cloud tutorials because you need different looks for different projects.

Thanks for posting this!
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PS>
If we decided to add this to the tutorial database, do you have a name -- and a website you would like linked to?

[Guest]

Meh. Well, it looked good, so I figured if anyone wanted to make clouds, they should know about this method.

[RavenKluk]

Hello kobyla klekla na kynžál

[Reizenstein]