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Posted on 26/11/11 01:36:28 AM |
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George Allen
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making smoke without fire-need help
Just bought the book today and thought I'd try this one out. I think I followed the steps, but I don't end up with the result in the book. The effect is applied to the entire layer-the black background and the white cloud. Somehow I need to separate the background from the cloud, but the book doesn't explain how to do this. Any suggestions? |
Posted on 26/11/11 08:34:52 AM |
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Nick Curtain
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Re: making smoke without fire-need help
Hi George and welcome. When you applied the clouds filter, did you lock the transparency of the layer containing the white smoke? If not, the clouds will fill the entire layer and override the smoke you've created. Nick |
Posted on 26/11/11 9:03:33 PM |
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George Allen
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Re: making smoke without fire-need help
Thanks for replying, Nick, Yes, I did lock the layer. I don't see if the layer is black to begin with and then you paint in white, how the filter can just be applied to the white. I think I'm missing a step, or I should use a blank layer and just paint in the white (maybe?. George |
Posted on 26/11/11 9:14:40 PM |
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Nick Curtain
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Re: making smoke without fire-need help
If you draw the smoke and lock the layer, then the filter will only apply to live pixels and the transparency is protected. If you create a clipping layer to the smoke layer, i.e. new layer above the smoke, to which the clouds are applied, this should have the same effect in a non destructive way. Hold ALT as you hover between the smoke and clouds layer and a symbol will appear and when you click the clouds layer will jump to the right and create the clipping mask. Nick |
Posted on 26/11/11 9:35:34 PM |
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Nick Curtain
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Re: making smoke without fire-need help
George This image shows the smoke layer with a clouds layer clipped to it. You will see I have blurred the clouds to remove the hard edges. I hope this helps. Nick  |
Posted on 27/11/11 00:35:06 AM |
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George Allen
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Re: making smoke without fire-need help
Thanks for your help Nick, I think I have it now. George |