Well here you will be taught how to create
a relistic smoke effect with Photoshop.
Before you start you should know this effect
requires alot of guessing and trial and
error to make it look good.
1)
Ok first open a new window. I used
300x200 pixels. With a blue background.
The first thing you want to do is make the
shape of the smoke. Click on the Lasso
Tool and draw a zig zag shape. Make should
the shape you create is on a separate layer
then the background. Next you want to
fill in your shape with the Linear Gradient
Tool.
2) The gradient tool
is selected in this image to the left.
For the colors I picked white and black. Next
Fill in the shape. And you should have something
that looks like this below.
3)
Now that you have the shape of your smoke
its time to make it look like smoke. Click
on FILTER > DISTORT > WAVE.
Heres where the quessing comes
into play. In the wave window you can
make the shape look anyway you want using
the sliders, but i choose to use the randomize
button instead and just keep hitting it until
its a shape that I like
.
4)
Once you get the shape to look the way
you want it to, you have to fade the
smoke so its not so visible. There are
two steps to the way I fade my smoke.
First I go back to Filter and
click on Fade Wave. A box will pop up.
I usually make mine opacity between
50-70 %. Next go to the the layer that
your smoke is on, in the Layer Window, and
you'll see another Opacity box. I made
mine 50% in this smoke tutorial.
5)
Here is what my final result looks like.
This is a hard tutorial to learn basically
because there is so much trial and error in
it. It took me a few tries before i
was able to get a good smoke effect.
And here is one of my other smoke effects.
Many effects went into this to make it look like
that.
