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Create Smokey Text
by Bree
1. For this tutorial, create a new Photoshop document, 400 x 300 in RGB mode with a black background.
2. Using the type tool, the font of your choice, and the color white, type whatever you wish on the black background.
3. Make sure you're on the type layer and go Edit --> Transform --> Rotate. Hold down the shift key as you rotate so your type will rotate vertically. If it doesn't fit in the box now you will need to adjust it a bit as I did.
4. Next, go Filter --> Stylize --> Wind. (Photoshop will ask you if you want to rasterize the type. Click "Yes".) Make sure you have chosen Wind and "From the Left". Click OK. Repeat this step.
5. Go Edit --> Transform --> Rotate. Hold down the shift key and rotate the text so it's horizontal again.
6. Make a new layer. Fill it with black. Drag it so it's below the text layer. Click on the text layer and then go Layer --> Merge Down.
7. Go Filter --> Liquefy. Use a small brush (setting found in upper right of Liquefy screen) and "pull" the tufts of white spikes at the top of your text so it's looks more like smoke swirls. When satisfied click OK.
Your final product!!
8. You can modify this a bit more. Using the color black and the type tool, type a new layer to match the first one. Your settings should be the same as they were for the original text layer since you've not used it for anything else. Use the move tool to move it over the smokey layer.
9. Click on the effects button located at the bottom of the layers screen and choose "Outer Glow." You can also do this by going to Layer --> Layer Style --> Out Glow. The default color is a light yellow shade. I changed this to a red. Play with the controls until you get a look you like.
10. Do a right click on the type layer and choose "Rasterize Layer" from the menu or go Layer -->Rasterize --> Type.
11. Use the smudge tool (it's the tool that looks like a hand with forefinger extended) to sort of smudge the outglow into the smoke. Be creative!!
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