Adding a cloud as a background texture.

Posted by Philip in Texture Photo

Wow, we had an amazing thunderstorm last week.  Right before it started to rain I made this photo.

I’m offering it up as a free texture photo.  But a lot of people don’t know what you can do with it aside from just adding it to the background.  So here’s a photo I made of Sierra a couple of weeks ago.  This image is unedited, just a bit of color correction.

Taking the cloud image and rotating it and making a mirror copy in the background will put it where I want it, but the magic happens when you change the blend mode.  I chose hard light in this case.  I also duplicated the layer of Sierra and put it on top so she didn’t get completely washed out of the image.  All in all this took less than 5 minutes and makes for a really interesting look.

Is that enough to get the gist of what I did, or should I create a video detailing the process?