Lightning Clouds???

Under Tutorials and under Create Lightning Effect version 2 i can get the lightning perfect but how does he add the clouds in the backround in the last example pic.When i try to add the clouds it makes the lightning have a bunch of diff colors for the bolt.So how do you add the clouds???

you can try making the clouds in grayscale (eh, use black as foreground and white as background color when you use the cloud filter), apply the lighting filter, and then change the color of the bolt by using Color Balance (Ctrl+B).

I said LIGHTNING-not Lighting
And even if you meant lightning-theres no filter for the lightning-its all made

i said lighting filter because you can use it to make lightning as well. and think twice before you think someone doesn't know what the hell they're talking about, you need to use that chunk of meat in your skull to figure out how to use the layer modes and set the Blending mode of the lightning layer that's positioned above the clouds layer to screen.

plus you posted in the wrong section.

supersaiyan1322,

We are here to help. Mooch helped, be thankful, dont shove it in his face. If you ave any more questions, ask nicely. That way you dont get pissed off and Mooch doesn't get pissed off and everyone is not pissed off so others might help you. Dont make things hard on yourself..

I dont have a Lighting Filter.I run Photo Shop Elements and the closest thing to it is Lighting Effects.And i dont know what settings to put for that anyway if i could use lighting effects.

Also id like to know how to change the color of the clouds for the backround on my picture.I know how to change lightning color but i need to know how to change the cloud color without the lightning color changing.

Ahh how nice, a little hostility.. :D this thread's gonna be a doozy! :D

Supersaiyan, dude, use layers. If Elements has layers. I would assume so... make your LIGHTNING on one layer, your CLOUDS on another and etc... then your changes are independent of one another.
For the record...
LIGHTING effects is under Filter>Render menu in photoshop. again, I don't know jack squat about Elements, so it could be in a different place. It's located underneath Filter>Render>Clouds as far as I can see. (and I can see pretty far....)