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Smoking with Photoshop
Contributed by: Scott

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Published on: 03/07/2004 Views: 33392

Now you've got big white blobs of smoke, let's refine them.

First thing at this stage is to lower the cloud layer's opacity just a bit.

Now we'll need to get rid of some of the blobs of smoke.

From the layers palette add a mask to your clouds layer by clicking the mask icon at the bottom of the pallete.

Click the mask, so you are certain you are working on the mask and not the actual clouds. Grab a brush, any brush, make sure your foreground color is black and start painting away parts of the smoke you don't want.

Here you can see how the final mask looked for this image.

Once you've painted away all the unwanted smoke you should have a pretty natural appearance.

The final image....

I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial as much as I enjoyed writing it!

Tutorial Index

1. Smoking with Photoshop
2. Layers Part 1
3. Layers Part 2
4. Finishing Touches

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Scott Adminorama	Posted on: 06/04/2006 The link at the bottom of the page that reads "Next Page (2 of 4) >>" or top right corner of page with the #2 in front of it.

ansi Etch-a-Sketch Elmo	Posted on: 06/02/2006 where's page 2? it seems as if something's missing.

thundercracker Copy/Paste Patti	Posted on: 09/26/2005 That is so cool. I've done it the hard way in the past. So much easier now, thanks.

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