How to create realistic smoke in photoshop
This is a very quick and simple tutorial how to create a realistic smoke using photoshop
It’s not hard just take your time and enjoy this neat tutorial
1 – Create some Shapes: I created some random shapes.
2 – Apply a Gaussian blur on each shape
3 – Using the liquify filter
4 – Positioning the shapes
5 – Adding 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
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
The gradient will give a atmosphere and more depth to the image
Final Result
The whole process takes around 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 some tools to get the effect you want.
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February 28th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Thats a neat trick!
March 1st, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Not really that well descriptive to a noob of photoshop.
March 12th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Hey, I wrote this tutorial and I would like you to add a link to the original post http://abduzeedo.com/creating-smoke
Thank you.
March 29th, 2008 at 5:50 am
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April 2nd, 2008 at 7:49 am
I’m new to Photoshop. I didn’t even know that was possible! Really cool, thank you!
May 6th, 2008 at 4:52 am
nice dude, that final picture looks bad ass. My down fall is always my graphic design skills =/
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:31 pm
very nice, im not a total noob in photoshop but this guide looks useful and something i could use, thank you!
June 10th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Thank you for this great tutorial. We all here at the graphic designer room of Action Printing, Inc. enjoyed this very much.
June 11th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Nice tutorial mate! I’ve bookmarked it for future references! You really made it look easy 😛
Cheers!
July 14th, 2008 at 1:10 am
You certainly know your way around Photoshop! Nicely done.
August 30th, 2008 at 1:44 am
I am always in awe of people like you that give so much back to the community for free. Thanks for the article.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Wow that looks great! I’m not that good with photoshop but i’m going to try it out! Thanks
September 12th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Hey man! The smoke effect looks great! Thanks for the tutorial!
September 16th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Thanks for this great tutorial! The smoke looks super cool!
September 28th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Wow, this is a cool tutorial. I’m going to try this in my Macromedia Fireworks as I don’t have photoshop. That will look awesome on a website banner I think.
October 14th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Thanks for this great tutorial! I’m just beginning to use Photoshop and I am learning quite a lot with these tutorials. I will try the small tutorial and report back with results!
That looks really really good!
November 24th, 2008 at 5:35 am
Maybe the title should be how to make realistic cigarette smoke in a night lit bar smoke.
Just my opinion.
Because I was searching online on how to make thich, car explosion type of smoke in Photoshop.
December 10th, 2008 at 6:43 am
Great tutorial thnx! Which version of Photoshop do you use?
December 17th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
This is a great tutorial, I rarely get to use smoke or something creative for my real estate site but I think this could work.
January 7th, 2009 at 4:33 am
How do you make it look that easy? I have played with this effect for days and still not quite the effect i wanted. Thanks for this help. much appreciated
January 14th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
That’s one heck of a tutorial, I always see these type of designs and think that I’m never gonna be able to produce something like that. Very cool! Now I think I’m gonna produce a new logo.
March 16th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
sry i just know how to write my name in arabic :)) anyway however in arabic when i read some thing like that i just say “raee” i donot know how to say it in english . thanks
April 16th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Neat and marvelous presentation! I was just wondering if you used a separate collection of brushes for these. If so, where can I download them?
April 16th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Really cool blog. I found it on yahoo. I am looking forward to read more posts.
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July 14th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Hej, cheers for this fantastic tutorial. It helped me improving my skills one more step. It’s at all times awesome to get some impressive inspiration and I hope to read more of such posts here sometimes because no one will ever stop learning new things. Have a nice day
July 20th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
I think photoshop is the best thing ever. I love that there are so many things you can do with it to any picture you take.
October 13th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Thanks for the tutorial but i am stuck at licquify filter. Actually i am using CS2 can that work?