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

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