Photoshop Tutorial: How to Create Smoke from scratch

In this fantastic Photoshop tutorial from Abuzeedo, you learn how to create realistic smoke from scratch. In 7 easy-to-follow steps, you go from creating your own custom shapes, over blurring them, to making this great effect you can see in the above screenshot. This is one of the better Photoshop masking tutorials, and it works for all versions of Adobe Photoshop.

In the tutorial, the talented Brazilian graphic designer Fabio Sasso explains how to create the smoke effect, starting with a blank canvas. We graded the tutorial as demi-skilled, because you should know a few basics before following it. For instance, in step 3, Fabio uses the ‘liquify filter’ without any thorough explanation. You do have a screenshot though, where you can see the settings. So if you know a few basics, this free Photoshop tutorial is for you.

But no worries. If you get stuck somewhere along the way, you can always look the techniques up elsewhere. There are many high qualitiy tutorials for Photoshop on the Internet. Also, make sure to check out all the tutorials on Beeex.net (click on “Photoshop Tutorials” in the sidebar to the right) - you may find something interesting there as well.

Here is another screenshot from the site:

You can jump to this great Photoshop tutorial right here. Create your own smoke!