How to create realistic clouds in photoshop
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In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, we'll learn how to easily 
add a realistic 3D clouds to a photo! 
Here's the photo I'll be starting with.
The first thing we need to do is add a new blank layer 
above the Background layer.
now change foreground & background color to black & white in tools palette.
Go up to the Filter menu, choose render, then choose 
clouds
now i'm going to differentiate blacks and whites in clouds 
layer using curves adjustment 
Now create stamp visible copy, todo that press 
Shift+Ctrl+Alt+E.
i will use this layer to create a 3D clouds effect.
goto filter tab and select stylize and then choose 
extrude.
select Blocks, Creates objects with a square front face and 
four side faces.
Size Determines the length of the object’s base. keep it 2.
Depth Indicates how far the tallest object appears to 
protrude from the screen, i will keep this at 30
Level-based Makes each object’s depth correspond to its brightness. Bright objects protrude more than dark.
Solid Front Faces Fills the front face of each block with an 
averaged color of the block.
The Extrude filter gives a three-dimensional texture to a 
selection or layer. 
we will see some texture when zoom into the layer.
These lines occurs due to four side face object depth while creating extrude.
simply apply gaussian blur to soften the layer texture.
A low amount of around 1-2px is all that we required.
now change blending of 3D clouds layer to screen. 
we just created a 3D clouds and now apply these clouds to 
the background image.
create stamp visible copy, It creates a new layer containing 
the merged content.
now change blending mode to screen.
create mask for sky, i will use color range method to make 
a selection for the sky.
Go to Select and click Color Range
Use the plus sign eyedropper tool that appears, and dragging around the areas you need to remove, 
 ideally the background in the popup color range box 
should become white. 
You can see that subject people is masked,
now with sky in selection add layer mask 
selection mask applied to some parts of water in the photo,
so take soft brush and paint with black to clean the mask.
finally we need to place clouds within perspective to make 
it look natural.
Choose Edit > transform > Perspective. 
drag a corner handle to apply perspective to the bounding 
box
pull the top corners outwards little far you can.
don't stretch too much it may smoothen the clouds.
adjust the position of the clouds near to horizon line.
When you finish, Press Enter in Windows or Return in Mac 
OS
finally i will add some shadows to the clouds. 
duplicate clouds layer and name it clouds shadows
drag layer below the clouds and change the layer blending 
to softlight
reduce opacity and we are done.
here is before & after results
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