Drawing a Cloud in Paint Shop Pro

To draw a cloud in PSP do the following:

1. From your PSP, open a new image file by clicking the ‘New’ icon. Or you can just press ctrl+N. To make a realistic cloud, your image should be at least 300 by 300 pixels. To give your cloud a solid blue background, you can use the bucket fill tool
2. Go to the paintbrush tool, and from the drop down list of the available paint brush styles, select the ‘Fine Hair; brush and set the opacity to 100.
3. From the color palette, select the medium gray and draw a fluffy cloud shape .
4 .Change the opacity of the paintbrush to 30%. From the color palette, select the next lightest gray color. Now draw some swooping shapes on the top edges of your cloud.
5 Change the paint brush style to ‘Small Bristles Brush’ and change the opacity to 15%. And select the white color. Now carefully add some highlights to the cloud, starting from the top and going down to the bottom. Try to overlap all the grey on your edges.
6 . Select the ‘Soften’ brush style to soften the look of the cloud. Make sure the brush size is large enough to cover up your whole cloud and then set the opacity to about 50 percent. Give the cloud a once over with the brush.
7.Your cloud should be done now.