Creating Smoke Tutorial

Made by: Nick

In this tutorial we will make some smoke, and whats better than a cigarette to add this effect to?




Lets start by selecting the brush tool.




and make a shape for the smoke in a new layer.




Then apply gaussian blur, with a radius of 35 pixels.






Now open the liquify filter window




Make sure to show the background so you see the effect




You can use any of these tools to manipulate the smoke layer and create what you want your smoke to look like.




Making the smoke really depends on your imaginary, I can't really tell you where to click and drag to create specific effects, just play around with it for a while and see what you can come up with. After making it Click OK to apply changes




Now make a new layer




Use the polygonal lasso tool




Make sure to set the feather to 30pixels or roughly that so it fits your design size.



Then make a selection around the smoke



and then apply a clouds filter




You may want to change the opacity of this to gain the effect your going for.

Final Result

My final result looked like this, pretty good I thought.