- Create a blank RGB space image with a transparent background.
- Press "d" to get the default colours: black foreground, white background.
- Fill the initial layer solid (command-delete).
- menu: Layer -> Layer Style -> Gradient Overlay
- Make the top of the gradient a vivid light blue.
- Make the bottom a slightly grey, unsaturated light blue.
- Create a new layer for cloud creation. (Layer 2)
- menu: Filter -> Render -> Clouds (You may have to repeat Clouds a few times until they look suitably random.)
- menu: Image -> Adjustments -> Levels...
- Adjust "Input Levels" to approximately: 114, 1.00, 181
- Adjust "Input Levels" to approximately: 114, 1.00, 181
- Select all.
- Copy.
- Click the eye icon to the left of your cloud creation layer (Layer 2) to hide it.
- Create a new layer. (Layer 3)
- Enter quickmask mode by pressing the "q" key.
- Paste
- Exit quickmask mode by pressing the "q" key.
- Fill the selection with the background color (white). (command-delete)
- Deselect the selection. (command-d)
- menu: Layer -> Layer Style -> Bevel & Emboss
- Set "Size" to approximately 50 px
- Set Contour to the Gaussian curve.
- Set "Size" to approximately 50 px
- Create a new layer for cloud texture creation. (Layer 4)
- menu: Filter -> Render -> Clouds
- menu: Filter -> Render -> Difference Clouds.
- Repeat Difference Clouds 10 to 20 times until you have a complex pattern.
- Enter quickmask mode by pressing the "q" key.
- Paste. (The clipboard should still contain the clouds layer contents (Layer 2).)
- Exit quickmask mode by pressing the "q" key.
- Copy.
- Deselect the selection. (command-d)
- Click the eye icon to the left of your cloud texture creation layer (Layer 4) to hide it.
- Create a new layer. (Layer 5)
- Paste.
- menu: Filter -> Stylize -> Emboss
- Set the "Height" to around 50 pixels.
- Set the "Height" to around 50 pixels.
- menu: Image -> Adjustments -> Levels
- Set "Output Levels" to approximately: 218, 255
- Set "Output Levels" to approximately: 218, 255
- Go back to your clouds layer (Layer 3) and "Create Layers" from the Bevel & Emboss effect: menu: -> Layer -> Layer Style -> Create Layers
- Delete the screen layer (white streaks), leaving the multiply layer.
- Select the multiply layer (black streaks) and:
- menu: Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur
- Set "Radius" to around 16 pixels.
- Adjust the multiply layer's "Fill" to around 50%
- End of instructions.
clouds background photoshop
Clouds background photoshop