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How to change a boring sky to a cool cloudy sky
A brief tutorial, to change a boring sky into an interessting cloudy sky. Because no one will believe, that you've got such a fine weather in the alps.
This article has been written using GIMP 2.4.2.
It's divided into 7 steps and takes about
5 min to complete for an average user. 13395 times read so far.
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Select the whole blue sky with the magic-wand-tool. To select the whole sky, move the mouse a little bit to the right side, while you push the mouse-button
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Add a new, transparent layer from the selection. Entitle this layer „Clouds“. In my example („Wolken“ which is the German word for clouds)
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Call the layer-dialogue (STRG+L). Activate the cloud-layer
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Apply Filter / Render / Clouds / Plasma.
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Colours, Desaturate.
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Now change the layer mode to either:
„Screen“ or „Overlay“ or „Soft Edges“
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Feel free to experiment with the transparency of the layer. Or you can duplicate the clouds-layer to get a stronger look - just as you like!
This article is licensed under the following license: Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Austria
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