Creating a cloud brush
posted on 6th of april, 2011
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Creating a cloud brush
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Here is a simple yet easily adaptable method to make puffy clouds for your projects.
We will start with a brush about 400 px in size, with a hardness of 0% and spacing of 25%.
These settings can be found and set in your brush palette.
Next let move on to Shape Dynamics. Lets adjust the size jitter to 46%, and set the control to fade and 25, minimum diameter to 25%, leave everything else in this panel to default and move onto the next option Scattering.
For the scattering settings check the both axes box and set the scatter to 100%, the count to 3 and the count jitter to 51 percent. Lets move on to the next setting the texture settings.
OK, for these settings we will choose the cloud texture. Click on the window with the image on the top right of the panel and select the cloud texture. If your not sure if you have the correct texture just hover your pointer over the individual thumbnails and the descriptive text will appear look for the clouds texture. OK, the scale should be set at 1000%, for the mode choose multiply for now. "we will be coming back to this setting later to explore other options for our clouds" Set the Depth to 100%. Lets move on.
The next setting we will be using is Color Dynamics. We will set the foreground/background jitter to 12%. Next is Other Dynamics.
For Other Dynamics set the Opacity Jitter to 18% and the Flow Jitter also to 18%. See below.
Next lets make sure your foreground and background colors in your tool bar are set to their defaults of Black and White. To do this just hit the D key on your keyboard. We want the foreground color to be white for our clouds so if it is black just hit the X key on your keyboard after having hit the D key.
Next we have some options you can change for slightly different effects.
In your brushes pallet you can check off noise for slightly different effects.
One of the more useful options are those in the Texture settings of the Mode. I found three to be especially good. I used these three in my example at the top of the page. They are Multiply, Overlay and Linear Burn. I found that painting clouds and alternating between those three modes while doing so gives good results.
You may also want to try adjusting the opacity of your brush.
Another couple of options which you may find useful is to add some layer styles to the layer with your clouds. Two in particular I used a bit are Outer Glow and Pattern Overlay. For Pattern Overlay I again used the cloud texture and set the scale to 1000% but I turned the opacity down to about 30%.
Lastly you can also try using this same brush for the eraser tool to remove some portions of your clouds and create a slightly different effect.
Play a little bit with the various settings and experiment.
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Tags: brush clouds illustration photoshop sky
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Comments (21)
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Thank you Veronica!
- posted by
Rolffimages
on May 05, 2011 |
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Wow!! You have some amazing images. Let me rephrase that...tons of amazing images. Thanks for sharing this tip :)
- posted by
Vwimage
on May 05, 2011 |
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Thanks for the great tip
- posted by
Davulcu
on April 27, 2011 |
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Thanks Leslie!
- posted by
Rolffimages
on April 11, 2011 |
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Bruce, you get another "useful" from me, thank you! I could look at your images all day.
- posted by
Ponytail1414
on April 11, 2011 |
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Thanks Fra73! I don't at the moment have any tuts on youtube.
- posted by
Rolffimages
on April 10, 2011 |
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I will experiment! Have a great week!
- posted by
Almaterra
on April 10, 2011 |
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Wow, amazing portfolio. Your work is art!!!! So many excellent pictures, great concept, original ideas, fantastic quality. I have never seen such a stunning portfolio. Congrats. Do you by any chance make tutorials on youtube?
- posted by
Fra73
on April 10, 2011 |
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Thanks for sharing!
- posted by
Mariaam
on April 07, 2011 |
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Great information!
- posted by
smartview27
on April 07, 2011 |
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Thanks for sharing!
- posted by
FabioConcetta
on April 07, 2011 |
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Great information, i will have to try
- posted by
Sobek85
on April 07, 2011 |
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Thanks for checking out my tut! There will be more in the future.
- posted by
Rolffimages
on April 07, 2011 |
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nice pics and beautiful clouds
- posted by
Uptall
on April 06, 2011 |
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Makes a cool other worldly look there!!
- posted by
Noonie
on April 06, 2011 |
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nice cloud! I will try! Thanks for sharing
- posted by
Laurasinelle
on April 06, 2011 |
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Thanks for sharing... It looks great.
- posted by
Egomezta
on April 06, 2011 |
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It is great!
- posted by
Joe1971
on April 06, 2011 |
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Thanks David.
- posted by
Rolffimages
on April 06, 2011 |
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Very impressed by your portfolio... your unspoken message seems to be master Photoshop soon as possible. David.
- posted by
Davidwatmough
on April 06, 2011 |
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Cheers for the tip! Will give it a go :)
- posted by
Jaykayl
on April 06, 2011 |
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