Creating A New World by Henry Pashkov
13. Letscontinue with the most interesting procedure. Creating clouds.
Create anew layer and name it “Clouds”.
Remark2. I will take advantage of theready cloud texture previously found in the Internet. But such texture may becreated manually using space photos of clouds or using Terragen software togenerate an unique cloud map.
So take preparedatmosphere map and cut the previously selected (using Ctrl+”Left Mouse Button”)area of the planet from the atmosphere map layer. You should have somethinglike that after:
14. Apply Distort/Spherize filter to selected circle.
And enjoy resulting“bulged” clouds.
15. Open Blending Options window and setparameters for Outer Glow and Inner Glow as on the following pictures:
Got thenext picture look:
16. Duplicate this layer and name it as “Cloudshadows”.
Using Select\Color Range command remove blackand dark-gray colors from the layer.
