How to Make a Storm in Photoshop
If you would like to show an image of a location as it would look during a stormy day, but only have an image of that location on a bright, sunny day, you can use a graphics program to alter this image. Doing this effectively requires some effort, and an excellent program that makes the process much easier is Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop has a number of tools and features useful for altering an image in this way.
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Instructions
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Load the image that you want to alter onto your computer. The best way is to simply copy it from a digital camera, but you can also choose to scan it in. You will also need an image of a stormy sky.
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Open Photoshop. Select "File" from the menu and choose "Open." In the dialog that appears, locate the image of the stormy sky and open it.
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Select "File" from the menu and choose "Open." In the dialog that appears, locate the image that you want to edit and open it. Right-click on the layer in the "layers" palette and choose "Duplicate Layer," making the other document the destination.
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Go back to the other document and use the "Move" tool and the "Scale" function found under "Edit" to fill the canvas with the image.
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Click on the "Quick Mask" button at the bottom of the toolbar. Then select the "Brush" tool and use it to paint over everything but the sky. Click the "Quick Mask" button and hit "Delete" on you keyboard. The old sky has been replaced with a stormy one. De-select everything.
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Select the top layer. Select "Image" from the menu and choose "Adjustments." From the options, choose "Brightness/Contrast." In the dialog that appears, lower the brightness of the landscape until it matches that of the sky. Click "OK" and save your work.
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References
- Photo Credit storm image by Stefano Martini from Fotolia.com
