little help on clouds

[DreamingInDigital]

Hi forum,

well, I am working on a (I think) past challenge that rrische started.

Here is the original image that i chose
http://www.creativespot.org/post/data/500/medium/m007.JPG

I have the main skycolor, and the landscape including trees already done. I am haaving some throuble with the clouds. Is there a way in photoshop to render the clouds? I mean I have tried colorselecting from the original image and drawing the clouds by hand on another layer but i then don't have/get the nice detail of the clouds.

Oh yeah I am not allowed to clone or anything. I can use a new Image but the final result has to look as close as possible to the original as possinble.

Any suggestions on creating these clouds?

[mikelima]

yes, i have the same problems..... my clouds are always to smooth, to blurry, not crispy enough!

http://www.mikelima.de/cgworld/wolke.jpg[/list]

[darkbosko]

how did you make the clouds?

[DreamingInDigital]

Well.....not many tipps to help but, I have tried colorselecting the colors of the original image and drawind the rough areas by hand...i then tried to use a really fine softedged brush, small is size to add all of the detail myself, but....it still does not turn ot the way that i would like.....what brush or other technique should i use to replicate the clound in the image of the first post?

[SquarePixel]

hey everyone,

i thought this might help you guys out alittle, its a tutorial for making clouds, hope this helps. its Steven Stahlberg's way of doing it.

http://www.androidblues.com/cloudtut.html

[DreamingInDigital]

Hey square,

thanks for the link...that is a nice tutorial. I'll try it out monday and post the progress...

thanks again,
Kris

[darkbosko]

question. what to do to get from the 1. pic to the 2. pic

1.
http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/3342/cloudtut61yx.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

2.
http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/2661/cloudtut78op.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[tobiasth]

" Now the highlight color, a slightly lighter peach. Use the finest brush and squiggle it on wherever there's a left-hand facing edge of the cloud. Again, don't be predictable and regular. "

[DreamingInDigital]

SUPER INFO AND TIPPS GUYS. BTW I started on the clounds following along with the info from the tutorial, my own skills, and the cool tipp that tobiasth gave me, and i must say it is starting to look good. well, at least it is starting to take shape...