cloud challenge

Here's a photo I took this evening at sunset, of the eastern sky as viewed from my garden.
the challenge would be to draw a cloud in the vector application of your choice,
photorealism isn't essential.
Saludos,
Bob.

See previous posting for text. I stupidly pressed the submit button without attaching the photo!
Saludos,
Bob.

A XARA fluffy white cloud.
A few white shapes with fractal transparency and feathering on a four colour blue sky background.
And again with a toy plane for added realism.
Derek

Derek,
The toy plane really knocks me out.
The great thing about this is that together with your cloud,
you have created a great composition.
Saludos,
Bob.

The plane is from a drawing thats about six years old.
Derek

Thanks for reposting this, Derek.
I do remember seeing the 'plane in a previous posting,
which is why it made me laugh now.
It's a salutory lesson on saving everything one
has done...you never know when you might want
to use it again.
The flower, (orchid? lily?) I'm hopeless with flora, is lovely.
Also, I love your thumb(s)nail motif,
Saludos,
Bob.

A combination of bitmap/vector graphic

Attachment 40655

Regards,
Remi

Hi Remi,
Very nice clouds - I'm sure I've seen that cow before?
Ah, yes, the banner challenge. I was paying attention,
but your posting was a bit before I joined the conference.
Prosit a Remi,
Bob.

Yes, it is the cow photo from the banner challenge. The problem was, that after inserting the photo, the clouds stops abrupt on the sides of the photo and my intention was, to let the result show like a photo/vector combination.

I've used Xara Xtreme's fractal fills, to create the clouds in the following vector drawing (no photo involved in this case).

Attachment 40677

Regards,
Remi

It's likely I couldn't reproduce this if I wanted to.
Lots of feathering, fractal fills, cloning and
fractal transparencies.
Saludos,
Bob.

I added a few embellishments to try and get a more realistic look.
Whatever "realistic" is. I've often seen clouds and thought that
they don't look believable.
Saludos,
Bob.

just a quick try!

Natural clouds as a source.

Rich

The grayscale image made bitmap transparent and recolored. I Gelled a couple of layers, and added lighting. The layers were made bitmap transparent again with a paper texture, and placed behind the first image.

Rich

As always Rich, some interesting effects.
I was following your method, and got carried away, without paying too much attention to what I was doing; I know it involved a bitmap copy, a texture and a transparency (possibly luminosity). The result looks like the aftermath of an explosion. Original reposted, right.
Saludos,
Bob.

Bob,

Too much curry, I think.

I was always looking for a way to remove all the blue from the background and leave just the coluds. I converted an image to grayscale and inverted it. Then adjusted the levels to get the background more white. More white with bitmap transparency means more transparent.

Now you can recolor light and dark to change the grayscale to color, and have a transparent background. You can make a bitmap copy, and use a texture for bitmap transparency.

Rich

Here's your last posting with a sunset effect.
Saludos,
Bob.