Photoshop adds clouds to Photos

There are a lot of good pictures, perhaps due to weather problems, the picture of the sky partly white or clouds too light. A little influence on the quality of the picture. The clouds need to be filled in later processing. This will be more perfect.

There are a lot of good pictures, perhaps due to weather problems, the picture of the sky partly white or clouds too light. A little influence on the quality of the picture. The clouds need to be filled in later processing. This will be more perfect.

Original

Final effect

1, open the original material, and then open a picture with a cloud, with mobile tools to drag it onto the background layer. Landscape photos smaller than the original, press CTRL + T appropriate to pull a little larger, so that it and we want to adjust the size of the picture.

2, press CTRL + J to copy the background layer two layers, and drag it onto the cloud layer to be used. The layer order is shown in the following illustration. Close the background copy 2 before the eye, we first handle the background copy.

3, click the position shown below the figure arrow, open the layer blending option.

4, then pop up the "Layer Style dialog", hold down the ALT key, the following mixed color band "This layer" on the right side of the slider to separate into two pieces. Then look at the layer and drag the slider to the left, knowing that the clouds below show. It means to hide the high light portion of the layer, and if you drag the Black slider to the right, the darkened portion of the layer is hidden. This is a common technique used in layer synthesis.

5, now we see the original film although the sky is hidden, but the characters and the high light in the sea is also part of the hidden. Next, we will use a background copy to restore the sea water and the hidden parts of the characters.

6, select the partial replica 2, because it is above the background copy, blocking the following layer, all layers seem to have returned to the original. Now click the "Add Layer Mask" button on the layers panel to add a mask to the background copy 2.

7, the front color after the black, with a black brush in the sky part of the smear, the sky again appeared. Note: When you erase the edges of the characters, adjust the opacity and hardness of the brush, and be careful not to erase the characters. In the mask, the black is the occlusion part and the white is the visible part. The sky in this layer is covered with black, and the sky on the next layer is displayed.

8, feel the sky and the color of the sea is not coordinated. Create a new curve adjustment layer, reduce red and green appropriately, and increase blue. On the dividing line between the background copy 2 and the curve layer, hold down the ALT key, and with the mouse click, the curve layer becomes the clipping mask. Then use the black brush to erase the characters. The role of a clipping mask is to only function on the lower-layer mask white area, without affecting other areas.

Final effect: