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Hi, I'm James, and in this tutorial I'm going to show you how to generate smoke
in a Photoshop document.
So, here I have this picture of my dad, and I'm just going to
generate a little bit of smoke behind the wheels as he warms up his tyres.
So, the first thing you want to do is grab the Pen tool and just start making some random shapes.
Make sure that your foreground color is white and that
the first option up here is selected
and then basically just
start making some
very
random
in the area that you want the smoke to be created.
So...
like that
and
another one over here
like that
and
finish that off, and now we want to merge these two layers. So, select them both and then right click and
click on merge layers
now you want to go to Filter>
Blur>
Gaussian Blur...
and I'm going to make it nice and
blurred
like that
So depending on the
size of your image, the radius in pixels will vary.
This is a fairly large image, so I'll need a fairly large number.
So I'm going to leave it around 50. And click OK.
Now, to make the smoke a bit more 'whispy' and kind of
look like it's going in a backward direction
I'm going to
click on Filter
and Liquify.
Now it's a little bit hard to see the smoke, but basically what you want to do is just
with this first tool selected, the Forward Warp tool,
I'm going to just
drag some of the smoke back to make it look
a bit 'whispy'
and, I'm also going to make it a little bit bigger
with this tool, the Bloat tool.
And again, just
push it back
and click OK.
Okay, so here's the smoke now. It doesn't look
too great yet, but I'm just going to position it a bit with the Move tool.
A bit
further
behind
and again I'm going to go to Filter>
Blur>
Gaussian Blur...
And blur it
even more
and click OK.
Now, I'm going to get
my Eraser tool
and I'm going to
take away a bit of the smoke from his face, and
a bit of the wheel down here, so I'm going to change the opacity
down to around 50%
and I'm going to make the brush nice and soft
and just
take this smoke away from his face
and his body and
a bit of the car
like that
and now I'm just going to turn the opacity of the smoke
down
like that, and now
that's looking okay, but if you want it to look a bit more smokey
you can duplicate the layer, so I'm just going to hold done option on a Mac, or alt on a PC
and push
or drag
the smoke up again
and I'm going to press Command T [CTRL T on PC] to rotate it
so it's not recognisably the same...
smoke
and press enter
and again just
take that away from the car
and the other unwanted places
like that
and you can do that as many times as you want
so I'm going to duplicate that again
rotate it again
and you can make it bigger
and press enter
and there you go. Now we've got a little bit of smoke to this picture and it's looking...
it doesn't look too realistic but it's not bad
Here we go, I've got this line here, I'm just going to fix that with this
with an eraser...
É soft eraser
and find whatever layer it's on
and down here as well.
and also take it away from the foreground, so I'm just going to get rid of it
on top of this grass.
And that's it. Thanks for watching my tutorial!