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This a background I did for a flyer that will have txt printed on it. It's for an opera being performed by a community performance group and someone else does the txt. I was asked to provide a starscape with the photocopied faces coming out of clouds. The original is A3 @ 300 dpi which is big by my standards. That's like 26 MB compared to about 2 for the jpeg copy I've posted @ 250 dpi. I had to borrow my daughter's computer cause mine doesn't have enough memory and would have been problematic.

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La Foret Nouvelle (The New Forest)

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After post on fantasy clouds i was thinking really what is the best way to create clouds !? The options were: 1. To create clouds from scratch. 2. Use Effect which is generate clouds from the BG. 3.Photograph from the Sky. So i was in the beginning trying to create from scratch and i was doing just fine but there was a feeling that something is missing. so i start to use the generator for clouds but still there was something missing. so i took my iPhone and started to photograph the sky in my area and the photos was so boring so i upload them to PDN and played with Blend Mode and found this combination between 2 layers which are two different photos from the real sky. i also played with the levels of the adjustments

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Dear @taycat34! Such a cool idea, absolutely fine. Thank you so much.

WOW! @Rickhum! What a great entry you've submitted. Your work is incredibly beautiful! Thank you.

Beautiful and just a touch eerie @Rickhum. Well done!

Hello again, New Video. Background is real clouds which i upload to Pdn and played with the levels in the Adjustments. The Sphere is the fact of two spheres in 2 layers, 1 blue + 1 red. The blue sphere is moving to the left and the red is to right. I also used zoom color and glow. Enjoy.

Seerose, your work is confirmation that the effect apply not only to portraits. Thank You.

Nouveau de Budgie--entirely Paint.Net because Steven Blue is a bit shy.

I made two The first one was sourced from here and the second from here.

I used a few plugins like Red Ochre's Contour.

omg, thank you for the easy, interesting tutorial. I played around and made this for the Holidays. Thanx again. Stay awesome. I love this Forum it made it where i can get into my art again.