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[Vinny]

I'm here to show you how to make your text look cool with a smokey overlay to it.

Your going to need these images later:

1 - http://www.imgcow.com/uploads/554111...al_smoke_2.jpg
2 - http://www.imgcow.com/uploads/3151111544_smoke.jpg
3 - http://www.imgcow.com/uploads/707108...ghtcloud_2.jpg
4 - http://www.imgcow.com/uploads/1791063678_smoke.jpg

You don't need to save them, but it would be good to if you want to make this again in a later time.


Step 1: Open up a new document (600X250px) and create a new layer called ‘black background’. Fill your entire canvas with black.



Step 2: Now add some white text to the center of your canvas. I used the font ‘Arial Black’.



Step 3: Now duplicate your text layer, then select your original and rasterize it by using layer>rasterize>layer. Then apply a motion blur to this layer by going to filter>blur>motion blur. Set your angle to 90 and your blur strength to 20. Finally reduce your layer’s opacity to 60%.



Step 4: Now paste in an image of some smoke. Make sure that you find an image of smoke on a black background, and if there is any color to your smoke go to image>adjustments>desaturate. Then change your layer’s blend mode to ‘exclusion’.

Step 5: Now select a large, soft eraser brush at a low opacity (around 10%) and erase the edges of your smoke image.



Step 6: Now repeat the same technique with another smoke image.



Step 7: Add some more smoke, being sure to erase parts of each image until things are looking good.



Step 8: Now paste in another smoke image, and set your layer blend mode to ‘multiply’. Then go to image>adjustments>levels and set your input levels to 0, 1.00, 100.

Step 9: You’ll notice that this layer now hides some of your previous smoke layers. To fix this grab a soft eraser brush and erase around your letters, exposing the rest of your smoke.

Step 10: Now, if you remember we created 2 text layers earlier and rasterized the first one. Now it’s time to rasterize the second one. Once you have done this grab your smudge tool, and set your brush size to 40px and your strength to 60%. You want to start smudging the tops of the letters of your top text layer. To achieve a nice smokey effect, don’t simply smudge upwards, but make small circular smudging motions.

Also reduce this text layers opacity to 75%.



Now we're done! The final image should look something like this:

[Stefan]

Nice tutorial but i don't like the result. But the tutorial is nice because its very clean and easy to understand

[2smooth]

very simple tut. it has a nice effect too. :]

[eZDesings]

nice effect

[Ricky6039]

Nice i have been trying to learn but god there is so much

[OuTpuT]

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[skihapode]

Great info! Really informative. It is helpful for me.

[jensfort]

Hi it is a nice post it would be very useful. Smokey overlay is good images and there are well done can you please tell me how did you do it and I think it is done in Photoshop.

[comoganharpeso]

Great effect on the picture, i think it's great for logos

[adulti]

Where are your images, your tut is good, but without these images, i can not see what it really is.

Can you post these images again, i'd like to try this text effect. Thanks

[cristianoronaldo]

the images have disappeared. Can you upload it again please?

[kOjOe]

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