Photorealisitc clouds from...photos!

[Rik]

Thanks a bunch for the micro tut, Gary.

There's no way I would have known how to do that.

[Gare]

I'm glad it served you well, Rik.

I'm surprised that this is such a mystery uncovered!

No one works with image editors? It's essentially the same deal using Xara.

There's a whole passel of bitmap operations you can do. I think you've just prompted me to write several months of video tutorials!

-g

[BeanPole]

Gare, Thank your for "Clouds to Go" tutorial.

I need help on this one. I was good up to and including step 5. Then in step 6 I got lost. It seems that your black area is transparent but mine is not. Not sure what I am doing wrong. I am copying True color + Alpa.

What am I doing wrong? Thank You,

[Gare]

I left part of step 6 out, the document has now been revised if you want to go back and download it, VERY sorry!

Here's my notes on a copy of your work, beanpole, to make the tutorial work.

Apologies all around,

Gary

[BeanPole]

Thanks Gare! That worked perfectly.

[stygg2003]

Thanks for micro tut. Gary and the update and my head and liver are fine!

Stygg.

[BeanPole]

Gary,

Thank you for the micro tutorial. What an incredible tool. I went into some of my photographs and was able to also extract a moon and, by using darken instead of bleach I was able to extract a picture of geese flying in formation.

I will show a sample here. Note: I didn't create a sky, I just put these things on a plain blue background so they would show up.

Wow! Thanks Again.




Note: The first picture I attached (thumbnail) had a fuzzy moon, but I cleaned it up a bit.

[angelize]

Hi guys looks like you have been having fun! I gave the clouds to go a whirl. Gary I'd love to see some more little tricks like this one.

[Tabian]

Thanks Gary for the micro. I am going to see if I can create a picture using the same method, not to make clouds but to generate fog. If I can make it work well it should open up the opportunity of creating some really atmospheric images...
So thanks once again
Tabian

[stygg2003]

Nice clouds Francis, Gary in an earlier post said he was surprised that no one was aware of this neat little trick and might make some vids. on other surprises ( bitmap editing in Xara)

Stygg