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Hello, today I'm going to demonstrate how to make text look like it's written in clouds. We'll start with a simple
blue background, with some different shades of blue blurred in, gaussian blur about 120.
OPTIONAL: You can add in dents or render clouds on a low transparency, but here I'm keeping mine simple.
Next we create our text on a new layer, write whatever you want.
If there's no fire, you've done it right! Now we need to apply dents, Scale 200.00 (sorry, I went wrong writing this first time and deleted a load, so can't find out what the others were. I can just guess a low number on all the others).
Blur this on about 15 to 20 then duplicate the layer 3 times, and merge it down again. This just makes sure it's easily visible and not half-transparent. Now we apply dents, Scale 25, Refraction 25, Roughness 10, Tension 10, and whatever quality you want. I always have to use bottom quality levels as my computer will otherwise become ridiculously slow and occasionally crash.
Gaussian blur this again, around 15 to 20, and duplicate and merge layers until happy, and hopefully you should end up
with this:
Thanks for reading, have a good day, but not a better one than mine.