Manipulate Smoke to Create Hyper-Real Images – Screencast

Gavin Steele on Aug 17th 2009 with 13 comments

“Learn to apply the Warp Tool effectively and a few other tricks to make smoke look like a skull. This technique has a variety of outcomes and works well with water, clouds and a whole bunch of other stuff. This is probably more for intermediate users, as I guide you through the process well, but not every Warp Grid point handle move. Let’s get started!” James Davies

Here is a link to the written version of the tutorial Manipulate Smoke to Create Hyper-Real Images and the video version is below.

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Gavin is from Douglas, Isle of Man and currently teaches ICT in a secondary school in London. He compiles screencasts for Psdtuts+!

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John
Looks nice, will check it out later.
But the link to the written version links to the screencast?
http://miralize.com Sean O’Grady
Great article. I havent messed around in Photoshop for ages, but this gave me a bit of inspiration!
http://www.james-dolan.co.uk/ James Dolan
Thanks for the tutorial!
The link is wrong, get rid of the -screencast at the end and it should work
luis M
great tutorial !! gavin if you read this would you mind creating a tutorial on how to get rid off hard backgrounds like for example how you got rid off the background of the tree in the tutorial HOW TO CREATE A SLICE OF NATURE .
if you can do that that would be a great help for me thanks again :)
Tobi
nice tutorial, but please don’t always such dark things. I would be happy to see something more colourfull.
Anyway all your stuff is great
Mounir
awesome I like it
thanks dude
http://Goodconcept,SmokersAllmembersGoodmessageThankuSir Srihari Babu
Good concept ,Smokers All members Good message Thank u Sir
http://shlomit.deviantart.com/ Shlomit
amazing concept and realy cool tutorial and even:
Not hard at all
Thank you for sharing it with us
David Felix
Great Tut, the hard work is on details.
tarek
Nice tutorial
Thank you
http://www.PhotoExtremist.com/ Evan
Great! I wish it was shorter though! You can also do this with long exposure light paintings, even without using the Glowing Edges filter
Carissa Creel
I can’t get the link to the written tutorial to work…An hour hong video tutorial is too long.