Making blue sky attached to cloned cloud same as background

[henders64]

Hello Affinity Users Group -

I am making a mountain panorama, and the sky has no clouds, so I'm trying to spice up the sky by adding some clouds to it by cloning in clouds from a different image.  Because cloud edges are fuzzy, the cloned clouds always arrive with a little bit of blue sky on the edges, and that blue sky is always a slightly different color than the blue sky of the image that it has been added to.

I cloned the cloud onto a pixel layer and then tried to adjust the color of the blue sky using both HSL adjustment and selective color adjustment.  I could get pretty close, but there was still a noticeable boundary between the blue of the cloned cloud and the background sky.

I also tried the color replacement brush tool but had some problems with it because it matches the hue and not the saturation and level, so there are some games to play there to make things right.

Open to suggestions...

Thanks!

 

[firstdefence]

What about desaturating the layer and then feathering the, was blue is now grey, colour with either a blur brush or a large eraser using a texture brush. A screen shot would probably help, but also feathering the clone brush brush more.

[firstdefence]

Just been Brush doodling and made a Fluffy cloud brush, only prerequisite is you have to have The Orbs little fluffy clouds playing in the background as this creates the perfect zen state for sky fluffification 😁 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHixChYgGRI

Here is a simple example of the sky fluffer in action lol! I used the luminosity blend mode on the layer because it picks up the sky colour making it look a bit more natural.
 

Here’s the brush: Dex's Cloud Brush.afbrushes

You can also use the brush with the eraser tool to make subtractive clouds to further enhance the randomness and interplay between layers, so although I have one layer in the image above creating several layer can get you even more realism.

Like so...

[jmwellborn]

@firstdefence  your sky fluffification is a wonder to behold!  Installing your brush without further ado!

[Alfred]

7 hours ago, firstdefence said:

only prerequisite is you have to have The Orbs little fluffy clouds playing in the background

 

https://youtu.be/FHixChYgGRI

[jmwellborn]

@Alfred  Three cheers for the airplane.  Think I'll take my fluffification on Mute.