Adding Clouds
open a photo that have sky with a mountain..then
1. Use the Magic Wand with Tolerance set to 20 and clicked in the center of the
sky. This will grab most of the sky,
2. Use Select > Similar to capture virtually all of the rest of the sky. If you see
any non-selected areas (they will “sparkle” with the selection border around
them), press Q to jump to Quick Mask mode and paint in the small dots that
remain unselected.
3. Choose Selection > Save Selection to save your sky mask.
4. Next, load the sky.jpg photo from the website. Copy the image by pressing
Ctrl + V, and, with your sky selection in the Mountain photo still active,
choose Edit > Paste Into (or press Shift + Ctrl/Command + V) to insert the
new clouds into the photo.
5. Use Edit > Transform > Scale and resize the clouds so they fit in the available
area. Notice that you don’t have to resize the image proportionately. You can
stretch in one direction or another to make the clouds fit. The “distortion”
isn’t apparent because clouds are just clouds and have no natural proportions.
6. Next, adjust the opacity of the new cloud layer in the Layers Palette. One key
to making composites is not having one object stick out because it is overly
bright, overly sharp, or overly dramatic. By reducing the opacity of the cloud
layer, the clouds will blend in with the plain blue sky underneath. I reduced
the clouds to 44 percent opacity, and they blended in just fine.
7. You may make one final modification. I returned to the original mountain
layer, loaded the sky selection, then inverted it (press Shift + Ctrl/Command
+ I) to select the mountains and foreground. I then copied that selection and
pasted it down on a new layer above the clouds. Then, I used the Smudge tool
to lightly smudge the edges of the mountains, removing any sharp line
between the mountains and the sky.
open a photo that have sky with a mountain..then
1. Use the Magic Wand with Tolerance set to 20 and clicked in the center of the
sky. This will grab most of the sky,
2. Use Select > Similar to capture virtually all of the rest of the sky. If you see
any non-selected areas (they will “sparkle” with the selection border around
them), press Q to jump to Quick Mask mode and paint in the small dots that
remain unselected.
3. Choose Selection > Save Selection to save your sky mask.
4. Next, load the sky.jpg photo from the website. Copy the image by pressing
Ctrl + V, and, with your sky selection in the Mountain photo still active,
choose Edit > Paste Into (or press Shift + Ctrl/Command + V) to insert the
new clouds into the photo.
5. Use Edit > Transform > Scale and resize the clouds so they fit in the available
area. Notice that you don’t have to resize the image proportionately. You can
stretch in one direction or another to make the clouds fit. The “distortion”
isn’t apparent because clouds are just clouds and have no natural proportions.
6. Next, adjust the opacity of the new cloud layer in the Layers Palette. One key
to making composites is not having one object stick out because it is overly
bright, overly sharp, or overly dramatic. By reducing the opacity of the cloud
layer, the clouds will blend in with the plain blue sky underneath. I reduced
the clouds to 44 percent opacity, and they blended in just fine.
7. You may make one final modification. I returned to the original mountain
layer, loaded the sky selection, then inverted it (press Shift + Ctrl/Command
+ I) to select the mountains and foreground. I then copied that selection and
pasted it down on a new layer above the clouds. Then, I used the Smudge tool
to lightly smudge the edges of the mountains, removing any sharp line
between the mountains and the sky.
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