Puffy Clouds

Quick reference

• 00:04 Hey everyone, creating a custom brush
• 00:06 which will produce realistic clouds in Photoshop, and just to give you an idea
• 00:10 of the result we’re looking for,
• 00:12 this image that you see in front of us didn't contain any clouds when it was taken.
• 00:16 It was a clear blue sky. The brush we're going to create in this video
• 00:20 will allow you to create nice fluffy clouds.
• 00:23 Now, some of you may be asking: well isn't there a filter in Photoshop that can create
• 00:28 clouds for me?
• 00:29 Sure there is. If you want your final result to look like this.
• 00:33 You probably don't. Let's make something a little more appealing.
• 00:39 To start the brush creation process,
• 00:40 let's select a standard brush. Let's go ahead and use the 400 pixel soft brush.
• 00:45 Now we need to edit the brush properties. If you don't have your brush panel open
• 00:50 on the right side,
• 00:51 head up to Window and then click on Brush.
• 00:56 In this panel, I'm going to take you through some of the options which will help create that fluffy look.
• 01:00 Some of the values will remain the same, some will change.
• 01:03 But, like in every tutorial which contains values, you can change them up
• 01:06 to your liking.
• 01:07 In the first brush tips section, we're going to keep everything the same:
• 01:11 except the spacing. Let's set that at 30%.
• 01:15 Next down is Scattering. When you turn this option on,
• 01:19 set the scatter to 120% on both axes,
• 01:22 control is off, count is at 10, jitter at 100% and control is off.
• 01:27 Texture is next. Now this is probably the most important property
• 01:33 that we're going to be editing.
• 01:34 Without this setting, we won’t achieve any of the fluffiness.
• 01:37 This drop-down allows you to select the pattern for the clouds.
• 01:42 Now, ironically, we're going to select the clouds pattern, which is right here.
• 01:45 Now, if you don't see the clouds pattern, which many of you
• 01:50 probably won't,
• 01:51 click on the arrow to the right hand side and select ‘patterns’.
• 01:54 If you click on append, it will add the new patterns to your current
• 01:59 list.
• 01:59 Now you can go ahead and choose the clouds pattern. As for the values,
• 02:04 the scale will be set to 500%, mode will be kept at color burn
• 02:09 and depth at 100%. And finally, let's turn on transfer, which on older
• 02:14 versions of Photoshop
• 02:16 is under the 'other dynamic section'. This will give some opacity variation to our
• 02:21 clouds: we don't want them all to be pure white.
• 02:23 Simply set the opacity jitter to 100%.
• 02:26 Perfect, and that's that for the settings. We definitely want to make sure to save
• 02:31 our brush.
• 02:31 At the bottom if you press the ‘create new brush’ button, you can choose to save
• 02:36 it for future use.
• 02:37 It will now appear at the bottom of your brushes drop down menu.
• 02:40 All you have to do now is select your brush and click.
• 02:44 Here are my suggestions. Don't use pure white for your clouds,
• 02:48 they really won't turn out very realistic. Use a slightly off-white color,
• 02:53 maybe with a little bit a blue in it.
• 02:54 You may also want to add a slight inner shadow, to add some additional depth
• 02:59 to your cloud, but that's completely up to you. And last,
• 03:02 like everything, play around with the brush settings.

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