Photoshop makes fantastic smoke.

　　This PS tutorial only uses a simple filter effect to make a pretty cool smoke effect. This article will be a brief introduction to you.

　　Step 1 , create a new document, regardless of the size of the document, but must set the background color is black. (This effect looks better on a black background). After creating a new layer, select the Polygon Lasso tool (polygonal lasso tool) to check out an abstract shape similar to the following figure. (Regardless of what color you use, as long as the color is not too dark to ensure that we can debug multiple times to find an ideal color.) )

　　Step 2 , at this point, we can begin to deal with the high light portion of the smoke effect. Select the Dodge tool, the brush size is set to 50, and the range is "high light", and is set to be painted on the edge of the abstract shape and around the corner. Next, select the "deepen" tool to perform the painting in the middle part of the profile to achieve what you think is the ideal effect. See figure below:

　　Step 3 , at this point, we'll do further processing to make it look more like smoke. Run the filter/warp/wave command (Filter>distort>wave) and set the correlation parameters as follows: Wave number (generators) set "5", Wavelength (wavelength) minimum "10" maximum "120", Amplitude ( amplitude) Minimum "5" maximum "35", Zoom (Scale) Two are set to "100%".

　　Step 4 , use the "wave" filter and then, run the edit/fade wave (edit>fade-wave) command, set the opacity to "50%". Run multiple times to twist and fade commands until you feel satisfied.

　　Step 5, just to make this effect look more beautiful, we can use "twist" to adjust a different size, when the fade point can adjust the blending mode.

In the end, different colors are used to achieve an effect that is not the same. Create a new layer and use the "paintbrush" tool to perform graffiti in different colors throughout the image. Then the blending mode of the set layer is "overlay" (Overlay). At this point we have achieved the goal, with an easy but very effective method to obtain a smoke effect.

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