hello everyone, welcome to my channel in today's tutorial I will show you how can
you create this awesome smoke effect in Photoshop this is really a good looking
portrait I use some very good tricks to create this effect I hope that you will
like this tutorial so watch till the end and tell me your valuable word in the
comments section below leave a like and subscribe if you didn't
yet so let's start today's tutorial now we are here in the magical world of
Photoshop I have downloaded this image for today's project if you like to
download this image I will put the link in the description first we need to make
a new document go to file new
now select 1920 by 1080 P size I am taking it's for our thumbnail size you
can choose as you like now keep all the setting default you can use a name I
give the file name smoke effect now hit create next we need to create a new
white layer to create the background create a blank document now fill it with
white to fill it with white make sure the foreground and the background color
is black and white if it's not press T on your keyboard then press ctrl or
command + backspace it will fill the blank layer now we need to make the
gradient to create this gradient go to the toolbar and tick gradient tool go to
option bar and click here now it will come up the color slider
shows how much color you like to add hit okay click to the middle of the layer
and drag it to the side it will create a gradient adjust the gradient now go to
the image document take the image and paste it to the smoke effect document
this image too big press ctrl or command + T on your keyboard and adjust the size
next we need to fill all the side into black go to the toolbar take brush tool
change the foreground color into black and paint black to fill all side area
now we are going to desaturate the image to make it black and white go to image
adjustment and take desaturate now apply a negative layer mask to this image
press alt or option in your keyboard and press 2 the layer mask if you see the
layer mask thumbnail it's black select the layer mask go to tool bar take the
brush tool come to the document and press the right button on your mouse now
select the smoke brush adjust the size and apply the smoke effect take your
time and apply adjust the brush setting change or rotate the brush and apply the
smoke effect take your time to create it perfectly and if you want this brush I
will put a link in the description to download this brush now apply the smoke
effect
now we are done let's see our final output now we just created our smoke
effect in Photoshop you can see how good-looking it is take your time and
create this awesome smoke effect I just wanted to show you how can you create
this effect and try to show you all the method if you want to download the brush
and image you can check the link in the description you can also follow me on
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