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Published: 2006-03-04 01:57:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 26273; Favourites: 594; Downloads: 8140
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Yes, I just whipped this up while I was doodling some clouds.. Then I was like, woah, I'll make a tutorial out of it. This tutorial is meant for people who want to make a 10 second background look decent. xD; It took me less then a minute to doodle these clouds up once I found the brush settings. Ummmm, yea. Sorry that I only made it for tablet users. D: I didn't have time to write a tutorial to make clouds with the mouse. Try just changing the size of your mouse and the flow %. It may do something helpful. I'm just here to help.
If you have any questions about anything, just ask. I love helping people! 
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Comments: 113
OMFG. this is
EXACTLY
what i was looking for.
and i just randomly came to this
page through other stuff.
THANKS
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This was actually a great tutorial for the style of art I was going for. Thanks! <3
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hey great tutorial, did you know that you can fix those 'ugly edges' by going to 'spacing' in your brush settings and putting it on 1.
someones probably already said that here, but yeah, problem solved.
anyway, cheers, tut helped me greatly.
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This has helped all my CGing! I love you for this tutorial! <33
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This is nice, so where's the "Brush Presets".
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Kaykaykit, you are amazing!! Could you tell me how to do this with a mouse? I don't have a tablet and am hopeless with backgrounds... Thank you for creating such a wonderful tutorial though.
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I decided to favorite this, as I found it very helpful. Thank you for this nice and easy to use tutorial!
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I just started working in Photoshop [CS3] 10.0, and now I have a tablet but it has a pressure sensitivity that I believed should have helped with this but the lighter I press the more thinner, and opaque it gets no matter what the size of the brush I am using or the flow and opacity.
Do you know a back rout to that? I have noticed that a lot of tablets nowadays have that quark about them.
I have a Genus MousePen tablet.
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yes, that's what tablet pen sensitivity should do. what effect are you trying to get? using the pen tool is good for drawing lines which taper at the end. you can probably adjust the setting of that in the tools.
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I did and it didn't do much. I have a different setting in the tools than you do. I couldn't get much. I followed you tut to the letter as best I could but I guess later versions took a lot of stuff out. T_T I am still trying though. But I keep running into dead ends. What version of Photoshop do you have again-and give me all the numbers and versions and decimals with it and they year because I might need to get the one you have.
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Adobe Photoshop CS (v. 8)
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Thnx-oh about the tablet. When I said the lines were thin when I let up on the pressure I meant they were like a pencil line thin. It did not fill up the size of the brush it was very solid but thin. That is what I meant. It does not make the effects that are shown on the distant clouds.
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fantabulous tutorial!! I made these shoty clouds: [link] but dont worry, i'll probably fix them tomorrow when i can be botherd. maybe.
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I have Photoshop [CS3] 10.0 T~T And I don't know how to use it.
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This would be fun to try out.
By the way; how do you adjust the pressure with a mouse? I gave my tablet to someone who could use it because I can't work with a tablet.
Also I am thinking of doing storm clouds but am unaware as to what colors to use. Could you upload a idea or color palette?
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sadly, mice don't have pressure sensitivity. and for colours, i'd recommend checking out some pictures of storms on google, and copy-pasting it into photoshop, then colour dabbing some of the colours on the picture.
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Kay that make sense. I am still at a loss as to what type of storm colors I need or want. I have never done anything like that before.
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wow what a helpful tutorial
I was panic about how to make a cloudful background and you make me think it simply!
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What version of Photoshop do you use? I can't find my brush presets but was able to find them on a school computer.
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I use Photoshop CS (version 8), they should be there unless you are using a really really old version
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Wow, thank you for this tutorial ! Really useful !
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Awesome! I think I could really benefit from this. xD
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Beautiful clouds and wonderful simple tutorial! 
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hahah I love it I wish I had a tablet to use tho,,, here when you go out and buy a new on Mail me your old used up one XDDDD
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Simply awesome clouds. o3o Me likey!! I didn't EXACTLY follow the brush part, but it's still an awesome tutorial! It helped me create this:[link] 
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I love you. O.o These clouds are so much fun to make, simple, and beautiful too! Thanks a lot for this buddy! I needed this!
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Whoa! (O_O) The clouds are so simple and yet beautiful somewhat. Your tutorial makes it look so simple, but I'll try this out then. ^_^ I'm glad you showed this tutorial. +favs
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you can get the same effect with a mouse by using the opacity option.
thanx anyways, because this tutorial gave me the clue to make it
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Thanks for the wonderful tutorial; clouds have been my weak point for a while. I just wanted to ask a couple questions--which version of Photoshop do you have? I have 6.0 and cannot find the brush presets so I can't set my tablet to respond to pressure by darkening and lightening. Instead, when I press hard, the shape of the brush is larger. When I press lightly, the brush becomes very thin. I can't seem to find a way to fix this. I hope you can help me
Also, I don't mean to sound rude, but I believe there may be a couple spelling errors--are you interested in hearing what they are? If so, please ask me.
Thank you again for the beautiful tutorial. Your clouds are lovely and the tutorial is clear and concise. In fact, pretty much all of your art is adorable. Keep up the wonderful work.
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I have version 8.0 (CS). You can't set your tablet pressure to make it darker/lighter the harder you press. It only works in size. The darker/lighter would work best in the Dodge and Burn tools.
Haha, I did make the tutorial very quickly, so sure, tell me the spelling errors. x3
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Oh, yes, I saw you mention CS but I wasn't sure if that was version 8.0 or not. Hm, I must have misunderstood the tablet settings, so thank you for clearing that up!
Errors:
"Transparentness" should be "Transparency" towards the top left
"move towards the lighter clouds" in around the same area but on the right, should have "toward" without the "s". The reason people write this is because it is common in to say this in a lot of English "dialects," if you will, but it is not in itself correct English to write (in this case).
Underneath this, it says, "don't put it on to heavy" -- I think the adverbial form, "heavily," should be utilized here.
Everything else looks fine.
Thank you again for the wonderful tutorial and for the polite and helpful reply to my comment
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Thanks! Unlike most people, I don't get totally mad when I get corrected. I want to fix the errors, I really do... But look at me. I'm lazy and a procrastinator, hah. I will see if I can get around to the changes soon. 
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About the ugly edges. Ive gotten those before but I can tell ya how to fix it!! It has to do with the brush spacing. You need to decrese the space so its always one continuous line. It does make the color of the brush more robust but lowering opacity or pressure even more gives you the same effect as before without having to go over it till its smooth and more opaque.
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Yep, someone commented on that earlier.
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just curious as to how the angle jitter is set low on the bar but says 99% next to it.....
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O.O
i see. wow i must be seeing double.
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Oooo... this will be uber helpful once I get my tablet! Yum...
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Making pretty sky has been the bane of my existence, even considering that I hate doing backgrounds. I'm glad for your tutorial, it should be mega helpful in the future.
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I love the tutorial!
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Your clouds are so pretty! <3
Even your clouds match your drawing style. xD Great tutorial; it's a shame I don't have photoshop.
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wooooah!
nice!
do ya know how to do grass in PS?
I mean, if you know, can ya do a tutorial then?
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Yep, I know how. It's just a brush.. xD Can't really tutorial that. But I did make a forest background tutorial which is on my site (www.kaykaykit.com).
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