Activate the Brush tool (B) and input the following:

• Brush size: 800px
• Hardness: 0%
• Opacity: 15%
• Flow: 100%
• #: ffffff

Paint on the door way as shown below:

The result should be similar to the image shown below:

Step 5: The Cloud Roof and its Shadow

Now, prepare your eyes, we’re about to put something really amazing! We’ll be replacing the house’s roof with clouds. Open Above 3 by castock and Select All (Ctrl/Cmd + A) and Copy (Ctrl/Cmd + C) the image then Paste (Ctrl/Cmd + V) to our canvas.

Position it as shown below:

The Above 3 image is quite huge so we need to resize it. Like we did before, activate the Transform tool (Ctrl/Cmd + T) and transform it, you can press Ctrl/Cmd + 0 if you want to see the whole Above 3 image. Now, let’s enhance the color of the Above 3 image, non-destructively of course. Click on the Create New/Fill Adjustment layer button.

Click on Vibrance and input the following once it opens:

Next, open the Adjustment Layers menu once again and click on Brightness/Contrast.

Once it opens, input the following:

To make it more realistic, let’s add some shadow under the cloud image so let’s create a new layer (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + N), and name it “Central Shadow”. Make sure that this layer is above the cloud layer.

We don’t need to put a Clipping Mask on the Clouds since we are going to paint both on the Clouds and the Roof at once. Activate the Brush tool (B) and set the following:

• Brush size: 90px
• Hardness: 0%
• Opacity: 50%
• Flow: 100%
• #: 000000

Now you change the brush settings to the following:

• Brush size: 300px
• Hardness: 0%
• Opacity: 100%
• Flow: 100%
• #: 000000

Create a New Layer (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + N) and name it to “Whole Roof Shadow” and then paint on the following area:

Your image should be looking like this now:

Now, let’s create accentuate the cloud format ions. Create a new layer (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + N) above the “Whole Roof Shadow” layer and then name it “Accentuate”. Activate the Brush tool (B) and input the following:

• Brush size: 125px
• Hardness: 0%
• Opacity: 50%
• Flow: 100%
• #: 000000

You may paint on any part of the bottom of the clouds, but recommended areas are shown below:

Now, let’s balance the light between the house and the clouds. Let’s darken some areas of the house which less light should be shining. Create a Gradient Adjustment layer.

Once the Gradient Adjustment box is open, click on the drop down menu with the gradients and click on the following gradient: