Creating Smoke

Some time ago I had posted an article showing how to create a smoke effect in photoshop, and to achieve that I used a photo of smoke and some photoshop filters. However, some people had said at the time that I should have done the smoke as well and it´s exactly what I will show on this post right now.

I had previously thought about what would be the best way to create smoke in photoshop, and I’ve read some tutorials online and watched some episodes of the amazing pixelPerfect podcast, to find a good and easy solution for the matter at hand.

Actually it was easier than I had expected.

1 - Create some Shapes: I created some random shapes.

Create some random shapes

2 - Apply a Gaussian blur on each shape

Create some random shapes

3 - Using the liquify filter

Create some random shapes

4 - Positioning the shapes

Create some random shapes

5 - Adding some colors

Use the Hue/Saturation with the colorize selected to add some colors
Add a background color on the layer of the shape, otherwise the Hue/Saturation won't work

6 - Creating a cloud behind the smoke

Creating the cloud
Set a feather with a high value, like 40 to 80, and after that apply the hue/saturation on the cloud too

7 - Adding a gradient to create an atmosphere

Create some random shapes
The gradient will give a atmosphere and more depth to the image

Final Result

Create some random shapes

The whole process took me about 30 to 40 minutes tops, it’s pretty simple, although it can be quite hard to create a natural smoke with the liquify filter, the best thing to do is to play with the brushes and with the tools to achieve the desired effect.

The PSD file can be downloaded.

AttachmentSize
Final Result (smokeTest.zip)2.81 MB
shapes.zip3.57 MB
Wallpaper 1280x1024 (smokeTest.jpg)163.55 KB

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My name is Fabio Sasso, I'm a graphic/web designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I'm the founder of Abduzeedo. I hope we can share lots of information, tips, and ideas through abduzeedo.

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Thanks a lot for the tutorial.

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Sneha (not verified) 11/30/2008

Very beautiful

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Verhsley (not verified) 11/13/2008

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msh3er (not verified) 11/01/2008

Great Yah Simple but effective ! keep it up!

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premkumar (not verified) 10/31/2008

sweeeeeeeeet

noelrock 10/14/2008

Nice, simply, and to the point!

I have to say, as a web designer myself, I appreciate all of your tutorials. Thanks to people like you the web design community has, and continues, to grow rapidly - and progressing technology along the way.

Thank you!

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letscounthedays (not verified) 10/03/2008

nice tutorial ..... ive just recently started fooling around with photoshop n ive been creating smoke and flames using basic brush and smudge tool with blending effects(works well too, even if time hogging) .... i like this way ... thanks

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Anonymous (not verified) 09/30/2008

awesome!!!
ive tried it and produced stunning results..
explained very well man.. keep them coming!!

Cheers
aLee

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Messy Designer (not verified) 09/21/2008

I can't imagine that it can be done by me. I will try for sure. Very beautiful. Digged!

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Group Buy (not verified) 09/19/2008

Cool stuff... keep it coming.

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Josh (not verified) 09/17/2008

i got lost between step 3 and 4!

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everet (not verified) 09/13/2008

really good smoke tutorial, the smoke you made more looks like thick smoke like we say of cigarette or cigar i really like the effect i am making a dragon and this smoke effect will help me =)

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MOin (not verified) 09/10/2008

Nice tutorial, but it's still not really like smoke.

I will not enter in math subjects, but I can say in an intuitive way: the result miss that "disturbed appearence" the real smoke has. Clouds has it too, but smoke usually has it even more.

Clouds have not exactly the same math properties smoke has, but here you can have an idea about what I'm saying (there's a text made of clouds, but it was not made in photoshop): http://picturetopeople.blogspot.com/2008/06/artistic-effects-for-text.ht...

I believe with some more work you can get it perfect. Anyway, very nice work.

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leocda 09/06/2008

yeah, great tute dude. have been looking for something like this for a while now. respect

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nice tutorial

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Thank you for sharing your knowledge with all of us. I wish you best luck

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It’s very good article. Great site with very good look and perfect information. I like it too.

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dslrbiz (not verified) 08/05/2008

That's pretty amazing for Photoshop. Great tutorial. Have you tried it with a white background? I'd love to see if it had a translucent effect.

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1indir (not verified) 07/28/2008

really nice guide
thx u!

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Movies Guy (not verified) 07/27/2008

Good one!!! so simple as that!!

lijoeg 07/27/2008

This is incredibly helpful. It would be interesting if you could show how to do this with a different background – say, on a picture or something. With a black background it looks really nice, but it would be nice if there was some way we could make it more realistic or interesting with a real background picture of sorts. Great tutorial – I'm going to be checking out the others on this site.

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toys (not verified) 07/26/2008

you don't explain anything at all in this tutorial it is a cool trick...but you suck at teaching it. i suggest you re-do this whole tutorial, so people are able to do it.

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Anonymous (not verified) 07/22/2008

keep going...you've done a great job to share us this tricky tricks

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wiswakrma (not verified) 07/19/2008

Holly cow !!!
Fantastic tip! Make it look so simple ... How didn't I think of that? :)

simply brilliant. Thanks a bunch mate.

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kovilen1207 (not verified) 07/12/2008

And what about smoking a cigarrete?

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Miadeo (not verified) 07/08/2008

thank you very much

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Thank you man

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nice effect thanx for this tutorial's

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amazing tutorials dude....keep it up

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Cool effect. Thanks for the tut!

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okinawa (not verified) 06/28/2008

For what it's worth I don't mind that you didn't go into super detail on every step like some people have complained that you haven't. Many of these steps (like how to use layer styles) require the user to have prior knowledge and everyones results will vary

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Flüge (not verified) 06/27/2008

Great tutorial for beginner. Thx.

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Janet (not verified) 06/25/2008

man I suck at graphics, this should help alot thanx

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summer tourism (not verified) 06/20/2008

THIS IS USELESS DUDE

and + u dont even know how to explain , i dont mean for me but others who dont know about photoshop

U SUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK . where did u learn graphic design ?

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Bloody brilliant tutorials!

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Zeeshan (not verified) 06/17/2008

you should make more real good effect

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bedava oyunlar (not verified) 06/13/2008

I have seen similar smoke somewhere, but can't remmember where it, anyway great job

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Anonymous (not verified) 06/07/2008

Cool smoke!

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Digital Frame (not verified) 06/03/2008

fantastic looking cool very great tutorial
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ezoryak (not verified) 05/31/2008

Great tip!
I am using CS2 and is there any way that I can preview the action while I am using liquifying filter?
Thanks

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Erin (not verified) 05/29/2008

yea!good!
That's pretty amazing for Photoshop.

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Air Freight Forwarder (not verified) 05/26/2008

It's great effet, i use it nearly.

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Anonymous (not verified) 05/21/2008

I almost cried.

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Socrates (not verified) 05/20/2008

wooooooooooooow..

It's really great..

The lesson is very easy to do.. but I didn't understan what ment by step 4 ( positioning the shape ).. can u expalain more please?

thaaanx 2ooooo much..

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Absolutely awesome tutorial!

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Great Pic n coolll

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Anonymous (not verified) 05/14/2008

Cannot get that liquefy filter to work like you do...whiskey tango foxtrot....

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Jason (not verified) 05/12/2008

Very Nice... Thank you very much...

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Christian Dating (not verified) 05/09/2008

nice work guys

I wish i had some creative flair

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Roger Gordon (not verified) 05/08/2008

nice one !

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Anonymous (not verified) 05/06/2008

thanks for the tutorial.

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That's pretty amazing for Photoshop. Great tutorial. Have you tried it with a white background?

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Super tutorial. Thanks!

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Simplu (not verified) 05/02/2008

this was a quickie ! nice one !

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Accounting Service (not verified) 04/29/2008

These works would be very cool if you added the word hemp. What do you think? I like your final result with smoother lines (more brushing).

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Video Making (not verified) 04/26/2008

Good Effects

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Bedava oyunlar (not verified) 04/25/2008

Please can someone help me with this? I made exactly those steps, but i dont get the sharpness, when i liquify it. What settings do you reccomend for the tools and such things. The effect is so very awesome, but as i said if i liquify it, i just get very many patters of smoke, some fields with som lines at the end. i am a grafik designer and do this job for like 10 years, but i still not figured out how to get this sharpnes, out of liquify, and how to remove the whole oher crap that stays if you liquify.

thanks. please comment just after me and i will read it!!!!!!!

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help me (not verified) 04/23/2008

Now that is cool ...

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That's pretty amazing for Photoshop. Great tutorial. Have you tried it with a white background? I'd love to see if it had a translucent effect.

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I use the models from Maya sometimes for quicker 3d effects

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Acronyms (not verified) 04/03/2008

have been using Photoshop since version 5.0 and have done many professional projects with it, and have years of classes on it, and even I cannot figure out how your image changed so drastically by simply 'repositioning the shapes'. The effect is great, but you are horrible at making tutorials

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just superb..

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Good job man. thanx from New Zealand

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It really easy and great work.

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Online (not verified) 03/25/2008

Why did I never think of that.... *tut* Nice way of doing it brah.

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very cool effects.

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awesome work

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Good tutorial, I find photoshop difficult to use and this article helped a lot

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cocuk oyun (not verified) 03/12/2008

So cool. you are so talent.
rarely to see anybody so good at photoshop@

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k?z oyunlar? (not verified) 03/12/2008

Hi,I had idea about what would be the best way to create smoke in photoshop but i got more useful and helpful information from this site.Thanks for sharing this information.

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copy to dvd (not verified) 03/11/2008

Thankx again and again for nice tutorial, WTF are link at top of this comments?

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Zoznam Horoskopy (not verified) 03/09/2008

Really helpful and explained clearly.
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Nigeria (not verified) 03/08/2008

Could you do a video of this ?

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anal beads (not verified) 03/07/2008

Awesome tutorial

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Anonymous (not verified) 03/07/2008

great job
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digital (not verified) 03/07/2008

hey dude.... can't follow your tutorial... need more detailed instructions...

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pjames_e (not verified) 03/07/2008

Good Effect With photoshop.

Krillin35 (not verified) 03/06/2008

need moar explaination! xD

Anonymous (not verified) 03/06/2008

not very well explained, screenshots of the photoshop command is too small.

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oyun (not verified) 03/04/2008

Very nice. Look forward to trying this out.

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Braintrove.com (not verified) 03/03/2008

respekt, eine sehr aschöne Grafik

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Bad Düben (not verified) 03/03/2008

Or you can just shoot smoke in front of a black or blue paper with your digital camera. It will take you a minute or two. :)

Ed (not verified) 03/01/2008

thank you so much

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Kuran (not verified) 02/29/2008

Cara, juro que li TODOS seus tutoriais no site PSDTuts e nunca imaginei que vc era brasileiro, até vir aqui na sua home. Fiquei muito feliz e orgulhoso!

Seus trabalhos são ótimos e os tutoriais impecáveis! Parabéns mesmo!

Um grande abraço e muito sucesso!

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Mário (not verified) 02/26/2008

Thanks for the information.Took me a while to work it out to be honest

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Roger Gordon (not verified) 02/25/2008

Thanks for the help in using photoshop. i am new to it, and love it, but it can be hard to use at times.

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wanderfull design man great photoshop document ;)

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dizi izle (not verified) 02/21/2008

Wow... this is a very good photoshop tutorial. Unfortunately, I do not have photoshop at home. So, I am going to adapt this tutorial for GIMP.

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Designer (not verified) 02/20/2008

Tank you for the excellent tutorial

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Chris (not verified) 02/19/2008

I enjoy working in photoshop and was wondering if you could find other backgrounds to use for your image of smoke.

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Backgrounds (not verified) 02/19/2008

I always asked myself how such gfx are made - now i know- great Site man!

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paruresis (not verified) 02/15/2008

You have to laugh at the people complaining about this tutorial - no good deed goes unpunished. The only step I wasn't sure about was "4 - Positioning the shapes" not sure you mean by that.

Great tut though.

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Stop lying!

You ARE an expert.

Thanks for the cool tut.

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Really helpful and explained clearly.

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Great tutorial. thanks.

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This is the worst tutorial i've ever seen. You really need to explain things in a bit more depth. Your screenshots aren't very big, and it can be hard to see what your doing, you don't type much so for beginners its hard to know how to create the effect.
Great effect but terrible tutorial.

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Thank you

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worst tutorial i've ever seen

Anonymous (not verified) 02/01/2008

I have been using Photoshop since version 5.0 and have done many professional projects with it, and have years of classes on it, and even I cannot figure out how your image changed so drastically by simply 'repositioning the shapes'. The effect is great, but you are horrible at making tutorials

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Siditious (not verified) 01/31/2008

Really neat. It is amazing the things you can do with photoshop with a good knowledge of the tool and a great deal of imagination.

It would make an interseting painting also but it would take me much more than 30-40 minutes to paint it.

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David from Oil Portraits (not verified) 01/26/2008

This tutorial is very sweet; thanks for posting it. The great thing about this tutorial is the simplicity. I simply hate complex, hard to follow tutorials!

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Anonymous (not verified) 01/23/2008

This tutorial is too hard for beginners.
The step with the liquify filter is impossible.
I followed all the steps, but my final result looks like crap.

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I was wondering how some of these cool effects were done in Photoshop, thank you for sharing.

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So cool. you are so talent.
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This is probably one of the sweetest photoshop tutorials I've ever seen.

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Great tutorial! Thanks for teaching a novice like me to create a flash smoke!

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Love to see your works, they are easiy to read and understand. Look forward for more!

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Kunsthandwerk (not verified) 01/10/2008

Can one Paul Revere the step by step starting from adding the color to the scale of the shape. This with constancy help the beginners who can't understand the planning function to bring into being this signal artwork.

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Sweet tutorial thanks, the smoke ffects i generated are pretty cool.

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I loved it and found it simple and easy to use..thanks so much!

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dainu zodziai (not verified) 01/05/2008

not very well explained, screenshots of the photoshop command is too small.

Anonymous (not verified) 01/04/2008

Excellent tutorial! It's nice to see simple tutorials that produce excellent results no matter someone's skill level.

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Jim (not verified) 12/28/2007

Hi!

I'll try to implement this to my website ( revientate.com.mx ), so, although im brand new using photoshop.

thanks for sharing

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ArthasMX (not verified) 12/28/2007

thank you

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los angeles (not verified) 12/26/2007

Nice tutorial, but it is not well guided. you should have posted more printscreens since visual communication is much much better than writing notes!!

Anonymous (not verified) 12/24/2007

This is really hard to do. There really is no detailed information on how to create the smoke. My smoke ends up looking like a satin sheet.

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collectible knives and swords (not verified) 12/24/2007

WOW. Your way is the best!
I'v been using this one http://www.noscope.com/journal/2007/05/photoshop-howto-smoke
but your is much-much better. The only difference is Gaussian blur at the beginning but the EFFECT!.. :)

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Climinax (not verified) 12/16/2007

Cool tutorial, nice smoke !
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blues (not verified) 12/15/2007

I loved your smoke idea, I was wandering if you had ever taught this tecnique to a large group ( my husband is an Art teacher) if so do you have any ideas on how to convey information to students without taking 20hrs to get through the first step. Also your photos are great how long were you in Europe? Have you ever been to China? We went in the Summer of 07 awesome trip not bad on the wallet either if you live in the States 1 U.S dollar to 7 Yuen

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Shannell (not verified) 12/13/2007

In fact, not all tutorials are for beginers but when some steps of it are not mentioned and the users results are not good, wich happened with me, the perception that one can get is that the guy who showed this didn't quite apply himself explainig as he should.
And tutorials are all 'bout that: gettin' someone to understand - perfectly - how to create something new and complete!!
This effect is fantastic but if I cannot do it and ask for a tutorial I wouldn't suggest this one.
There are some parts missing: Settings for the Liquify effect, the Cloud step was not quite good explained and even the gradient step! I was confuse if I have to make that on the cloud or on the background...

Anonymous (not verified) 12/11/2007

Ugg, I spent three hours today trying to make realistic smoke. I wish I'd found this earlier. Many of your steps are the same ones I came up with, it would have saved mucho time. Oh well, live and learn.

For what it's worth I don't mind that you didn't go into super detail on every step like some people have complained that you haven't. Many of these steps (like how to use layer styles) require the user to have prior knowledge and everyones results will vary. Highly detailed steps would have made the tutorial four times as long and seem much too complicated. Not all tutorial are for absolute beginners.

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anonymous proxy (not verified) 12/07/2007

excellent tutorial, just tried it for myself. my smoke doesnt quite look as good as yours, but with a little practice im sure i'll get better at it. Thanks

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andro (not verified) 12/06/2007

Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! And it´s not too hard...

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Annick (not verified) 12/05/2007

Whats looks realy good. thanks

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Gurt Taschen (not verified) 12/05/2007

It's a very good tutorial... I managed to do all the steps with minor difficulties...
But, um, this sucks for beginners. It's WAY too hard for someone new at Photoshop, and you should consider the fact that many people just try to learn by reading tutorials like this one...
Actually, it ain't much of a tutorial since 99% of the tutorial, it doesn't explain how to do the effects..

P.D.
Beginners can go to http://www.photoshopessentials.com/

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Anonymous (not verified) 12/03/2007

Good lesson, you master of photoshop !
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Anonymous (not verified) 12/03/2007

Can someone post the step by step starting from adding the color to the layer of the shape. This will help the beginners who can't understand the procedure to create this wonderful artwork.

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Pills (not verified) 12/02/2007

Very interesting one, in fact I already tried it when I read this tutorial- very cool, nice post you know.

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Mark H. Abucayon (not verified) 12/02/2007

It’s very good article. Great site with very good look and perfect information.

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Sd card (not verified) 11/30/2007

This effect rocks. Thanks for your tutorial.

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Abnehmen (not verified) 11/29/2007

can you do this with photoshop 7.0?

Anonymous (not verified) 11/28/2007

love it.

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drugs (not verified) 11/28/2007

Interesting info
Thanks for article

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bestbuy (not verified) 11/27/2007

Shit. Cant follow. Vague Instructions

Anonymous (not verified) 11/26/2007

I loved it and found it simple and easy to use..thanks so much!!!

Anonymous (not verified) 11/26/2007

This tutorial is too cemental for beginners.
The consecutive intervals with the liquify bleed is impossible.
I followed all the acts, but my coming result looks like crap. :(
I mind you need to do a video and then put it on youtube.

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proxy site (not verified) 11/22/2007

this thing sucks, i'll give someone a 100 bucks if you can make it work, by just using this cats directions

Anonymous (not verified) 11/21/2007

thanks for your some information

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Gratis SMS (not verified) 11/16/2007

It’s very good article. Great site with very good look and perfect information.