Hi, I'm here to explain you how to make realistic clouds for Flash 8.

Let's start with this:

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r230/flashingflash/cloud1.jpg
Draw a simple brushed cloud, I sugest the 2nd brush.


http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r230/flashingflash/cloud12.jpg
Next, make a filling with the brush, like that, and colour it inside:


http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r230/flashingflash/cloud123.jpg
Okay, fill the left part *not the grey part* with [SIZE="4"]white[/SIZE]


http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r230/flashingflash/cloud1234.jpg
It should look like this.
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Let's start with the Filters part


http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r230/flashingflash/cloud12345.jpg
Select all the image, and press F8. Here, see it.
You just transformed the image in a Movie Clip (MC).


http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r230/flashingflash/cloud123456.jpg
Now go down to the Filters menu.


http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r230/flashingflash/cloud1234567.jpg
Put this in, after you selected Blur, from the effects.
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In the end, you can do what you feel like with them!
I made this:



Good Luck!
-Wtf

Very nice tut Wtf.
Nicely explained and an all round good effect*thumbs up*

^_^
My first tut had to be good!
Or else I woudn't have the courage to post another..
Lolz

It's fair, but not "realistic" I'd say. More like blurred clouds ^_^.
I'd say add more details or something, clouds are still too flat, you need more depth not blurred.

some of the lines needed to be finer, and clouds arent usually just a long bumpy thing, usually more like this:

but still, for a first tut it was pretty good, and anyway, it taught me how to use blur. =)

Thanks dude :) so cool .......it works perfectly , i made a flash with moving clouds

nice, the cheap way :D

it was well explained but a bit unrealistic

woohoo now i know how to make clouds! :D

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some of the lines needed to be finer, and clouds arent usually just a long bumpy thing, usually more like this:

but still, for a first tut it was pretty good, and anyway, it taught me how to use blur. =)

No cloud has a black outline, and clouds can be any shape, really. His just needed variation.

I just draw random light grey/dark grey brush strokes and blur the hell out of them, that always works.

Hey! Very useful tut.... Now I can fill my ugly skies!

i cant follow this that well