Tutorial: How to change a boring sky to a cool cloudy sky
Motivation / Intro
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.
Tutorial details
- Category: Photos / wallpapers
- Written by Kiri, translated by redforce
- Created on Jan 17, 2008, last updated about 1 year ago
- Time to reproduce: ≈5 minutes
- Tested with GIMP 2.4.2
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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!
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