Smoke brush

[gwpriester]

Paul

I preferred the first smoke effect. The purple does not look convincing, the black (gray) smoke does.

Do I recognize some shapes from a very eary tutorial under that smoke?

Gary

Gary Priester

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Be It Rarely So Humble...

[gnurf]

Gary - If you are refering to your exploding ball, the effect seem to be similar, but it is actually my quick improvisation so my smoke didn't have to come out of emptyness [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

All i did was drawing some freehand shapes, grouped them, and kloned them twice. I moved the klones to back, moved one of them downwards some pixels and applied a blend (from yellow to orange). Another freehand shape behind the "cracked ground" was drawn and filled with fractal plasma (yellow-orange)

About the purple smoke - it wasn't really meant to be realistic, it was more of a association to (correct English syntax?) Deep Purple's hit "Smoke On The Water", combining the both. get it? [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Turan - I forgot to tell about my smoke: I didn't use feathering, but circular transparency with a curved profile (now I don't remember in which direction it was curved, but I guess you can try it out by yourself)

-Paul