nice..!

This is great=)

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Dude, you are a rock star! Thanks a lot for the tutorial. I upgraded a few days ago and I am hungry to see what this new baby can do ;)

Great Tutorial!

Since the subject is "smoke text", I would like to give a contribution:
http://picturetopeople.blogspot.com/2008/09/smoke-text-rendering.html

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@leocda Nice effect man, I think that can be done in photoshop using the liquify filter with a very small brush. How did you do it?

Thanks for the comments ;)

I'm sure almost every effect can be done using brushes and other mouse tools. We can "draw" everything, despite sometimes it can be hard or boring. We can even draw the typographical entities by hand if we want, can't we? :)

With liquify only the result should be poorer, I guess. Maybe with liquify and working on transparencies in some strategical parts you can get something similar. A kind of conditional "twirl" would help to construct the smoke subtle curves too.

I have made mine with a procedural math model. As a "user" I have just chosen the font.

When I have time, I will improve some of my libraries to be able to make a more "dissipating" smoke with that "escape columns" smoke sometimes have.

Thanks for sharing opinions about getting virtual smoke.

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Hey,
This is pretty cool, I made a similiar type of piece with type and smoke a couple weeks ago:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/estheticcore/2932813983/

Can I write a tut for it and send it to your site? I remember you saying that you can now? Readers tut? Do we get paid? lol

Hi i download PSD I open the file in Photoshop and does not work? what I do ??? :(:(:(:(

ey, do you know where can i find more tutorials about CS4? not just PS, but AI or someone else. are you going to update some others by here??

Nice work Fabio

nice tut!

this is what i did with it

http://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sparcysmokeyo4.jpg

let me know what you think

great Tutorial as always, I check your page daily. Your work is awesome, keep it up.

Greetings from Panamá.

Simple and nice!
Very easy to follow. Thanks ;)

nice

i'm having difficult with step 4,I changed the 10 pixels for the Radius in step 4, but how do I change the colour to the blue effect in 4

Thanks man. This one...I liiiike!

muy bueno!!!

Heaps of fun! Thanks mate.

http://moukadesign.altervista.org/photoshop-tutorial-leffetto-smoke-con-...

Great tutorial, here are the results I came up with http://truefreestyle.deviantart.com/art/UnderStand-102624011

what font did you use?:D
very nice work by the way:D

I like!!! ALOT!!!

although i don't quite understand the step four, putting both the layers in a folder and color dodging it isn't giving me the desired effect. maybe i'm going about it wrong?

nice tuts, your work is amazing!

Great help! Thanks!

Thanks a lot for this tutorial m8, very nice :)

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Muy Bueno !! Veri Good !!!

Hola, Gracias por ese muy buen Post. Está sencillo de seguir pero con un efecto sorprendente.

Saludos

Thanks !!

That is so cool. Before the fire comes the smoke.

Thanks for this was good, heres my results:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29936163@N02/3038599642/

Thanks so much for this tut :)
It was exactly what I needed & easy to follow when i payed attn lol

Wow thanks so much for this, my wepage is called mediasmoke.com, so as you can see works perfectly as a title!

Ausom.

I'm using CS2. the problem I get confronted with right away is that when I get to the point of wanting to do Distort>wave, the wave selection isnt' available. It's grey. So what to do? I'd appreciate an answer from anyone on this. I don't understand why the choices aren't available.

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i don't understand step 4 can anyone explain fore me

thank you very mutch

nice effect!! thanks mate !

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well the step 4 is-
after u have grouped the layers and renamed it.... change the blend mode to color dodge....now u get the nice light effect !!!

Please, can you explain Step 4? Please!!

Step 4 isnt working for me

Then group the layer and rename the folder's Blend Mode to Color Dodge. You will get a nice light effect.
How many layers are we supposed to have for the text layer or which layers are being grouped??

could someone tell me / send me screen shot

Cabe_is_here@hotmail.com

all other tutorials no worries at all and thanks abduzeedo :P you rock

great tutorial ;) go on like this

I just put the text one text layer in a new layer group and set the blending mode to color dodge and it worked. I'm curious as to why it doesn't work when you set the blending mode on the text to color dodge, why must you put it in a layer group?

Hey i wanted to know, which brush did you use from the fallen smoke brushes? there are alot and seem quite hard to achieve the smoke lines you did. Can you specify or give some tips please. Thanks!

Show de bola Fabio tomei a libertado de publicar no meu blog com os devidos creditos parabens pelo seu trabalho.

Abs

Right. So you don't really teach how to create a smoke affect. Just how to use same tired clouds with some downloaded brushes.

Bummer.

Awesome tutorial. I love photoshop's brushes capability. I wish they would add that to Fireworks! Thanks.

Wow. That's pretty impressive. Nice work!

Just a note for step four. I had the same trouble as some others here in getting the blue color to show through until I did this, on your text layer, right click, choose blending options and uncheck "transparency shapes layer" in the advanced blending section in the middle of the box.

thanks for the tutorial... :)

great stuff, many thanks :)

It is indeed a great tutorial - there are a few excellent ones on this site, but for the effect you achieve, and the simplicity with which you talk us through the process then this one takes the biscuit!

I've added it to my Top 10 Photoshop Tutorials of 2008 list here: http://www.kinocreative.co.uk/blog/?p=5

Tanks for the comment. I get it now.

very good. thanks

Ausom, amazing, i have used this for a splash screen for my homepage.
http://www.mediasmoke.com

Yes! I figured out the step 4 issue!

I was having the problem where after i put the wavy text layer into a group, and then set the group's blend mode to dodge, the wavy text turned a bright blue, not smoky looking at all.

Here is what I did.

As said, put the wavy blurry text into a group/folder in the bottom right layers box. the text should be above the backround black blue radial gradient. Now, the secret bit. Go into blend options, gradient overlay, and switch the center color (blue in this tutorial) to something grayer, ie move your color selection to the left.
You will notice the blurry text look more and more like the turorial here as you make the blue grayer.

I followed Todd's advice about unchecking the "transparency shapes layer" and it worked perfectly!

Next time maybe mention this as some people (like me) are still learning Photoshop! But otherwise great tutorial! :D

Please teach me

Exelente tutorial, gracias fabio.

Excellent tutorial! Amazing effect, and in such quick and simple steps. That's really impressive, thanks for sharing this!

Nice tutorial, but i can't get step 4 done, can you explain the grouping thing a little more clearly?

yes i also do not get the grouping part in part 4..

If someone steps in the fourth encounter difficulties please contact my mail?113982892@qq.com
Because I come from China. English is not very good. So I can only use images for you to explain

Awesome, good tut to add to my collection. I was looking for just smoke brushes whe I came across this page.

really great tips in this tut. Please keep posting this quality stuff!

this was the best tutorial i've done.... i think mine came out even beter because i put in a few of my own changes

i am coollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll.

you can see :http://www.flickr.com/photos/28900704@N06/3572836896/

Awesome and real effect.

the font he uses i think its...
'Alte Haas Grotesk'

great tut btw

This is a nice tutorial.. i'm slightly bummed that a major part of this effect was created using a brush.

It just makes it more difficult to create a unique effect every time you do this.

Really really awesome man, thanks a lot.

wow, amazing effect

thanks for the tut

I dont get part 4

Much real smoke effect tut :) Thank you!

its awesome, thank you!
used it here: http://tfw92.deviantart.com/art/Colored-Smoke-127531573

Awesome, but what is the font please ?

Can't really work it up on the step number 4 , I did what Todd said but that light that comes out of the letters just won't go when I do what Todd says

epic !!
looking forward to read ur other tuts as well

Thank you very much for the tutorial :)
Cheers :)

Thanks for the tutorial but im stuck when u group the layers and do the color dodge my text just dissapears...

I had trouble for step 4 too....but i figured it out, you ONLY put the TEXT layer in the group, no other layers. Change the groups blending mode to color dodge and it should work...but for me it still didn't come out as bright as it did here..

I CAN'T GET TO THE STEP 3 I CANT GET DISTORT ON IN THE FILTER MENU PLS HELP

cool effect :) nice tutorial
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Awesome technique. There is no way I could ever even replicate this. Is there any chance you could create a light version of the technique that spells out:-

Food Smoking Questions

That would be awesome and I would send you a 100,000 karma points.

It would mean so much

Thanks

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