This image was created as a Photoshop tutorial for Photoshop Creative Magazine. The tutorial shows how to turn a subject into smoke by cutting out the model and applying various effects with smoke brushes until the desired look is attained. The image was supplied by the magazine and relies heavily on a number of layer masks and adjustment layers.
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Amazing, saw this concept earlier today with a model on a red victorian/antique couch, holding a golden, smoking gun and if you follow the smoke trail above her there was a face peering out from within the large plume – awesome!
Could you post a link or at least express what # issue your tutorial is in, great stuff! Love to check it out.
Hi Hunter
Thanks for your very kind comment, it’s in issue 53 of Photoshop Creative, which I think comes out early October/ late September 2009. As soon as it hits their site I’ll post a link!