PHOTO MANIPULATION with Photoshop: Smoke Effect

Creating fantasies of using manipulation of images is a certain satisfaction for the designers . In addition, the manipulation of photographs makes designers think freely outside the customs and graphic standards that fetter the creative imagination of the designers of space.

In this tutorial, I tried to adapt the effect of smoke (smoke) on a piece of facial images using Adobe Photoshop. Yup, we went straight to the steps of manufacture.

STEP ONE:

Give a radial gradient background colors of dark blue to black.

STEP TWO:

Insert a picture, as the example I used a picture Bunga Citra Lestari. Images can be found linked above.Or a good thing when using the image itself.

STEP THREE:

By using the pen tool (P) make the form as shown below.

STEP FOUR:

Make a selection based on the form object was created with the pen tool. The trick, right-click (in a state pen tool active) and select Make Selection. After that, the menu bar, select select> inverse (Ctrl + Alt + I) for selecting the reverse of the current selection.Then click the layer Bunga Citra Lestari (BCL) and press the Delete key on the keyboard.

STEP FIVE:

Create a new layer then select the Brushes tool (B). See the picture below to take the smoke of brush that can be downloaded at the link above.

STEP SIX:

Make sure your foreground color is white photoshop, and select the appropriate smoke brushes and then place it as shown in the picture below.

STEP SEVEN:

We want to load the selection of this brush to do the cutting on the picture BCL. Therefore, instead of brushes to the basic brush and then brush on a blank section in the middle of this smoke brushes (still in the same layer).

STEP EIGHT:

Load selection of brushes that have been made. The trick, as he hold the Ctrl key on the keyboard, click on the layer thumbnail in the Brushes palette layer. After the selection is formed, the layer can be removed or brushes in hide (hide) because they are no longer needed.

STEP NINE:

On the menu bar, select select> Inverse (Ctrl + Alt + I) and press the delete button on the keyboard. The result will be like the image below.

STEP TEN:

Create a new layer, select Brushes Tool (B), then place some fruit smoke brushes as shown below.

STEP ELEVEN:

Delete some brushes from the face using the Erase tool (E).

Step Twelve:

Click the top layer, then click on the icon Create new fill or adjustment layer at the bottom of the layer palette and select Levels. Set the value at the level as seen in the figure below.

Step Thirteen:

Create a new layer, set its blend mode to color and then select the brush tool (B) and brush the color blue in the picture (see the section that was swept by a blue color in the Layer Palette)

STEP FOURTEEN:

Click on the BCL layer and click on the Add Vector Mask icons at the bottom layer palette. Pastikan warna forground adalah hitam . Make sure the forground color is black. After that, use the Brushes tool to spruce up the face that is connected to the smoke (smoke brushes). This is done to create a unified face to the smoke.

STEP LIMABELAS:

Click on the BCL layer and click on the Add Vector Mask icons at the bottom layer palette. Pastikan warna forground adalah hitam . Make sure the forground color is black. After that, use the Brushes tool to spruce up the face that is connected to the smoke (smoke brushes). This is done to create a unified face to the smoke.

STEP FIFTEEN:

Lakukan hal yang sama seperti pada step empat belas terhadap layer smoke brushes untuk menghapus/merapikan bagian ujung dari asap. Do the same thing as in step fourteen of the smoke layer brushes to remove / trim the end of the smoke.

We've finished up on this step, staying apply some text for the final finishing.