Smoke Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn how to creating smoke fumes effect in photoshop, you can use this effect on cigar, smoking pipe, background and more. It can be applied on any photo and document. I have used some filter and style, you will realy enjoy.

Open a new document and take a new layer, fill white color, set foreground and background color Black and White. Apply cloud filter by go (Filter menu > Render > Clouds.

Now press Ctrl + T key and make it transform by the help of the mouse, make sure the transform should be look like below picture otherwise you can't reach on the final result.

In this step you have to apply radial blur, go Filter menu > Blur > Radial Blur. Click on the "Blur Center" and pull down, select right option and increase amount.

You get this picture.

Still selected smoke you have to make it just like wave so you need wave filter, go Filter menu > Distort > Wave and adjust same every settings.

The wave smoke looks like this.

Make duplicate wave layer and change the blending mode "Normal" to "Overlay" in the layer palette to make more real fume.

This is the final result.

Santosh Kumar

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