Magazine Second Draft - Clouds

I next created the backdrop to go behind the photo of Eve, I decided to generate my own clouds for this, taking inspiration from several editions of Empire such as



I created a new layer and used the built in feature to render clouds


This creates a random cloud pattern, see below


I then transformed the perspective of the clouds to make them more realistic


I made the more stretched out at the top and denser at the bottom


I then lowered the brightness and increased the contrast


Again to make the clouds more realistic I applied a gradient, white to black, making them darker at the bottom


I then repeated this whole process again a second time to generate a different cloud pattern to layer over the top


I then added a new plain layer below the cloud layers and filled it a dark blue


Lastly I turned down the opacity of the clouds so the background colour could be seen appearing behind the clouds, giving the appearance of a dark stormy sky


I then turned back on the layer of Eve that I created in the previous post to see how it worked with the clouds


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