Sky Retouch Tutorial

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Sky Retouch Tutorial

I retouched the image of cloud with sky like when you're looking through out from the window of the cabin aircraft. But I needed to make it looks above realistic too. This job was not so difficult as I used not many sources from Google to retouch. I would like to teach you too.

I found one photo of an atmosphere I were looking for. Luckily, it's very high resolution.

Prepare the sky, which I downloaded, in Photoshop.

I think the upper part is a bit dark. So I use Rectangular Selection Tool to crop entirely of the upper part.

Right click when I am still using the Rectangle tool, then stretch it out off the top of the canvas.

Now this part looks become lighter as I stretched the lighter part to replace the darken part. After that I use selection tool names Lasso to draw and crop on the cloud like this.

Right click, then select Feather. Because this wallpaper size is about 4 X 2.5 m. I type 250 px in the box to make a lot feather and this value is suitable for this canvas resolution in order to make a lot feather.

You won't see anything change with your dash line. But if you notice carefully, you may see its dash curve looks more smooth. Actually I need to adjust this cloud part looks more lighte. I use Level command by press Ctrl+L. Move the right arrow more to the left. It will make everything inside a dash line looks more light.

Paste a photo that has different feature of cloud which I have downloaded from Google before.

Stretch it to cover entire the cloud area. Then use filter from my layer box, a drop down list at top left. Now you see my second photo of cloud seems embedded smoothly into my background.

Now I start to make some cloud shape looks like a hill.

The right part at far horizontal is may appropriate location for this cloud. This time I use Screen Filter from my layer box and use Ctrl + L to adjust until the dark part of the cloud looks harmoniously to my sky background.