How to make smoke in cs3?

Hi, I am still working on these pics. The one's I am showing have had NO edits done. I know I need to get rid of a few things.

My question is, I would like to make it look like smoke coming out of the bottle, Like on I dream of Jeannie. Can someone walk me through how to accomplish that?

Thanks in advance,

Teeny

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there are a few ways to do it in CS3. clouds filter, brush and blur technique, and a few more...your best bet is to google "photoshop smoke" Good luck!

also it may have been better to shoot against black, as the smoke will be difficult to see, unless you color it...

Check this out:
http://www.cheb.com.au …c-smoke-photoshop-effect/

To create smoke in my office I just cover up all the vents on my PC, then open them when there's a funny smell. Have a camera ready.

tim wrote in post #6367757
To create smoke in my office I just cover up all the vents on my PC, then open them when there's a funny smell. Have a camera ready.

Now that's funny...

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but, smoke will not show up very well against a white background. Against the model, possibly.

Tim had an idea but I was going to suggest rubbing something really fast.

using the brush tool, layers, gaussian blurring, liquify, transform, wave filter, duplication, more transform, some more liquify.. and warp tool very complicated

Actually you should be able to make your smoke show up against any color of background. Who said that your smoke had to be an opaque whitish color. I've seen all sorts of different colors of smoke.

I did see a tutorial once that involve using render clouds and then transforming this along with the warp tool. I had a quick look but can't find it. There are lots of smoke brushes that one could download that you could do it with. You would have to adjust your brush to use dual colors in the application and play around with those settings until you get something that you like.

ssim wrote in post #6368165
Actually you should be able to make your smoke show up against any color of background. Who said that your smoke had to be an opaque whitish color. I've seen all sorts of different colors of smoke.

Yes, you're absolutely right. I was thinking white smoke only. Colored smoke could look very good with that subject.

Thanks for all the help! I am going to try them out and see what happens.

Teeny

Greetings - Can you try colored water and a few chips/cubes of dry ice?
Cheers,
John

Greetings - Two minutes in Picture It. Not great, but with airbrush tool, I think with some trial and error, it can look quite good?
John

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Try Nagel Series 42 mist brushes. Free download here. Add a little color for visibility (it's magic, after all).

Thanks everyone. Swift, thats a great link! And Peano, I am definately going to download them brushes! I love the Canon forum boards! I learn so much here. John, Love the PINK smoke.

Thanks again,

Teeny

Here is a 10 minute experimentation with photoshop and Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Smoke and my 'bling' brush.

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