User Guide

Chapter 5: Painting And Image Editing
3. Drag the selected channel to the new channel button to create a copy of the channel. The
channel copy is in black & white.
4. Select the channel copy in the Channels palette and double-click to open the Channel Options
dialog box.
5. Enter a name for the channel copy in the dialog box.
6. With the painting tools, apply white to the areas where clouds are to appear. Apply black to
the area where clouds won’t appear.
7. Select the composite channel to make it active.
8. Choose Image | Select | Load. Select the channel copy that you edited. The white area
appears as a selection.
9. Select your background and foreground colors in the Inks palette. The colors you select
determine the cloud color.
10. Choose Image | Filter | Render | Clouds to affect the selected area.
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