IT’S EASY ENOUGH to replace a dull sky with something more interesting. But there’s one thing that most photomontage artists get wrong: they place the clouds too low in the sky, as the above image shows.
Real clouds diminish in size in perspective, so those close to the horizon appear much smaller than those directly overhead. Here’s how to place clouds correctly.

You can see a video version of this, and other common Photoshop errors, here.