Smoking

[Heart]

This tutorial creates fantastic smoke or fogging effects and is great for dark menacing cover design.

1. Step one, open a new image, it doesnt really matter what size but be sure to set your background color to black. (this effect generally looks its best on a black background.) Make a new layer and select the "Polygonal lasso tool" and create an abstract shape that looks similar to the example below.(It doesnt really matter what color you use here either, but just dont make it too dark, and feel free to experiment.)


2. Start making highlights for smoke. Select the "Dodge" tool and make the brush size around "50" and the "Range" to "highlights." Now use this tool around the edges and corners of your shape. Next, select the "Burn tool" and use it in the middle and wherever you see fit.


3. Now make the smoke. Go to "filter"/"Distort"/"Wave." And make the settings as follows:

- Generators "5"
- Wavelength "10"/"120"
- Amplitude "5"/"35"
- Scale at "100%" for both.

4. Right after you have used the "wave" filter you can go to "Edit"/"Fade-Wave" and set the opacity to "50%." Now repeat this distort and fade method many times, or untill you think it looks best.


5. To make this effect look even better you may have to "distort", resize, and change the blending modes when fading a bit. And lastly, to make it different colors instead of the same throughout. make a new layer and use the "brush" tool all over the place using different colors. then set that layers "blending mode" to "Overlay." And there you have it, a simple yet effective smoke method!

[GEORGIEBOY26]

i would not say, simple, but a great explanation Heart...i,m sure it willbe appreciated..
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[annarere1960]

good one heart will try this........
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[tkboxer]

So can that be saved as a layer style to be used and edited again when needed?