Paint Clouds for Magic Hour

I love sunset. Love the color change.
Changing from yellow to orange, to purple, to pink, to red.

So lovely!

The color change lasts for about an hour and people call it the Magic Hour.
Seeing sunset becomes one of my favourite habit especially with my girlfriend.

"When will we have our 1000th sunest seeing?" I asked her one day.

A wonderful dawn should have bravo clouds to demostrate momentum.
But, it is not always the case.

So, please take every chance to take pictures for different patterns of clouds.
Those clouds could be your widgets, components or ingredients during photo retouching.

If you want to be a professional photographer, please always put a camera in your bag!

Now I am going to show you how to put clouds for dawn.

1) As usual, open your Adobe Photoshop

2) Open your favourite photo which lacks clouds


3) Open your cloud photo


4) Put your cloud on a layer above your scenery

5) Press the ALT key while clicking on the mask icon
6) A black rectangle appears on the cloud layer


7) Press "B" or click on the brush icon to select the brush

8) Use + or - key to enlarge or reduce brush size
9) On top of the Photoshop window, adjust the flow value to about 8 to 15%


10) Press "D" to set the foreground color to black and background to white
11) Then press "X" to swap foreground and background colors
12) The foreground should be white now (if not, please "X" again)


13) Gently paint the empty sky



14) Wow! The clouds come out now!

Note:
If you paint anything wrong, you can press "X" to exchange the foreground and background colors.

Now the foreground should be black. If not, press "X" one more time.
Then paint on the area where you want to wash away the clouds.

Trick:
Paint gently near boundaries to let clouds gradually merge into the background

Go and take some photos and do this exercise!