Do you have Adobe photoshop at home? want to impress your friends and show off in social/community sites with your own name edited and designed by you, well photoshop is the place to start and keep one thing in mind- getting creative is harder, working in photoshop isn't!

For this tutorial,first open a new docum,ent on photoshop.Everyone know how to, even if you don't know, go to File menu, then click on New. or just use the shortcut Ctrl+N.The document can be of any size that you need.

As you can see, the default background color in photoshop is white, but for the effect we need a black one.So go ahead and choose the paint bucket tool

then select black color from the toolbar, then click once anywhere in the document.And you get a black bg!.

Now it's time to create text-click on the text tool, be sure you select any font and color (I'm choosing times new roman font, size of 100pts and color white)that you require from the toolbar that appears at the top when you select the text tool.then click anywhere in the document and start typing.Once you've finished press Ctrl+Enter to create the text( we can later align the text)[in the image you can see the places where you can choose the font size and color].

In the left side, you'll find the layers window.(if you don't see it,press F7).There you can see the black bg as a layer and the newly created text as a layer.Not press ' v ' so that you'll be able to move the text to the middle of the document.

Then, in the layers window, rightclick on the text layer and select Rasterize type.You should get something like this by now

Now select the Smudge tool-the tool that's going to create the magic!.In the toolbar that appears when you select the smudge tool, select a brush size of 25, mode:normal and strength 50%.

Then start smudging the top portions of the text so that it'sll resemble smoke.Try squigly movement of mouse while you use the tool.You should endup with something like this.(don't over do it!).

Now select the brush tool,right click anywhere on the document and select a 13 pt(it's not necessary to be the same) soft brush.Then select the brush opacity to 50% from the top toolbar.

Then make small rippled strokes as shown below.

Now we go back to the smudge tool and smudge the newly created brush strokes until you are satisfied with the look,this time choose a bigger brush for smudging.

You can stop here or continue,Now to add some final touches-they say the devil is in the details!.Select dodge tool and with a soft brush, try to highlight some parts of the smoke(dodge tool bakes things brighter).Similarly use the burn tool to make some places dark( burn tool is meant to darken things).

Now it's complete.have a look at the result with and without the final detail.

• Written by Thirukumaran.
• In category Animation & 3d Design.
• 15 years ago.

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