Stuff you can do with clouds

[Janet Petty]

Way cool Blacknight. Welcome back.

Janet

[Mchilly]

So many cool textures here, I love it

[MatthewMarshall]

I saw a way to make lightning effect out of the clouds once. Wish i could find it again to post here. Its amazing what you can do with something that seams so useless as a filter that makes clouds. lol.

[grannysdc]

clouds
filter= redfield bas relief
overlay original softlight 50%
copy all/Paste
Solar curve luminosity@65%opacity_ circular mask with B/W gradient in center
new layer/ blue, red radial gradient, difference with circle mask
new layer using circle selection black red radial gradient to outside of circle
select blank center, select inverse stroke selection
select all, copy merged, paste
reindeer graphics adaptive equalization filter

Larger version (here)

[butlermike]

I know this is resurecting an old thread but i'm new to all this Photoshop stuff and I was having a play. The attached is;
Render clouds
Radial blur
Twirl
Plastic wrap
Then a layer above for a blue colour on colour burn blending.

I tried to put a plug hole into the picture to simulate water going down but my skills aren't there yet. Any tips would be handy.

[MiningArt]

No clouds for me, Terrazzo, new image 1024x768 sRGB, add color grain, small 6, medium 12, large 18, equalize histogram. Thanks for all the art-from-nothing ideas, enjoyed.

[unimatrix001]

Used clouds, fibers, one abstract brush, and the polar coordinates filter. Was impressed with the face that showed up after polar coordinates filter ran on the abstract brush.

[Doug Nelson]

Ran clouds on each channel separately, find edges, copy merged and emboss, overlay blend mode, duped emboss layer 3 times, copy merge again, put over a color fill layer, then tried different blend modes. The only difference in these is the blend mode.

Purely an accident, I was not still in Halloween mode.