Realistic Clouds

This tutorial will show you how to use photoshop's cloud filter to create realistic looking clouds .

	Start a new document any size you want. Create a new layer, and fill it with a Linear gradient of dark blue to lighter blue. Darker blue: #395D9E Lighter blue: #6A9BC9
	-Create a new layer. - Press D to reset your color pallete - Go to Filter » Render » Clouds. - Then Filter » Render » Difference Clouds. - Press CTRL+F twice. - Set the clouds layer blending mode to: Screen
	Go to image » Adjustments » Levels. And set the input values to: 20, 1.00, and 120
	Duplicate the cloud layer (Press CTRL+J). Then go to Filter » Stylize » Extrude:
	Reduce to Opacity of the original cloud layer to 70%, and the extrude layer to 50% Now select the extruded cloud layer and apply a gaussian blur with 5.0 px setting. (Filter » Blur-Gaussian Blur)
Now I will show you how to use it in an image. I got this image below which I removed the sky in the background.
Now this image, I create the clouds and put it behind the mountain, but it looks rather fake because its too flat.
Now we need to distort the clouds a little, so link the extruded clouds layer and the original clouds layer together Then go to Image » Transform » Skew. and drag the top left and right handle up and outward.
This now give us a more realistic sky.