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Collection: Digital Art
Camera: Minolta DiMAGE 7Hi
Date: Mar 2, 2004
Galleries: Digital Art
Date Uploaded: Jun 7, 2004

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 I made the smoke. I never use plug-ins.
You start with a fairly large soft brush on a new layer. Best to make about three of these. You use white to begin to draw the form. You then take each layer and apply a strong gaussean blur. before you combine them you use a soft eraser to help out the formation. You then select the best transparancy and go on to the next layer to make corrections unril you are satisfied.

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Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 01/12/2006 07:01:55 PM
I like how you figured out your way into manually creating this smoke-like feeling, the blur is a bit too much though in my opinion, and it's also almost impossible (at least to me) to create a 3D effect to it, real life smoke always contains some level of sharp details and it's also distributed in 3d space and not necessarily flat looking.

Also, I second that comment about the lamp.
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Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM
 01/12/2006 06:21:14 PM
I think the mistake in this is that the everything is quite nice, but I dislike the lamp. I would re-do this but buy a cheap brass tone genie lamp off of ebay and photograph it and use that instead. It will add a greater semblance of reality.
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