This video tutorial explains how to achieve my smoke/clouds/particle effect that I have used here and more recently here with my latest TRON image.
As far as I know… I have created this method, so you won’t find out how to achieve it anywhere else on the web!
15 comments
David Cox says:
Mar 10, 2010
I hope that you guys are able to download the Clouds Brush alright.
This is my second video tutorial that I’ve put up on this site… so I’m still learning. If you have any comments for me to improve or you think I’m doing a good job PLEASE LET ME KNOW!
Also, my sound quality should have improved from the last video… I’ve come up with a new recording method (eq and compression are now applied to the vocal track), and I’ve updated my mic stand which should get rid of that annoying harddrive buzz.
icontut says:
Mar 11, 2010
Great tutorial i really enjoyed it, please make more!
David Cox says:
Mar 11, 2010
Thanks, I plan on it!
erika says:
Mar 26, 2010
hey!,interesting tutorial,im also a student, graphic design as well.
hmmm, can u tell me the name of the song that u used in the beginning??
David Cox says:
Mar 26, 2010
Thank you. The song is called Don’t Trust Me, by 3OH!3.
jeanne says:
Jun 7, 2010
Thax, David.
To help promote you, I’ll share your web, and follow you on twitter. I love to promote other artists. I feel, the more we promote each other, the better for all in the long run.
May your business / art flourish!
jeanne
David Cox says:
Aug 8, 2010
Thanks a lot!
Macxim says:
Sep 23, 2010
Actually, when I saw the picture, I was hoping for the whole tutorial of it, not just the clouds. Then I realized you made it pretty clear in the title.
Anyway, it was a good tutorial. I love your website and work so far. Please keep it up.
Thanks for sharing, I hope I’ll learn a lot with your help.
David Cox says:
Sep 23, 2010
Thank you, and you’re welcome.
You can go to a neon text tutorial for the text bit of the image, and other than that and the clouds, that is pretty much all that there is to it.
Kronicus says:
Sep 24, 2010
May I ask how you made that beautiful grid?
good job, keep working. I’m prettie young and still learning cause I like it.
David Cox says:
Sep 24, 2010
Thank you.
I’m assuming you aren’t referring to my Tron Grid tutorial, but instead the grid-like glow on this image.
First create a glow in a new layer, by taking a large soft brush and putting some color on the layer, and blurring it out so that it is very soft. Then, create a new layer, and there is a pattern in photoshop that looks like a grid. Fill that new layer with that grid pattern. Then select the grid, go back to your glow layer, and hit delete. That will create what you see here, but you might want to add a small amount of blur to it, so that the grid edges do not look sharp. Mine looks smooth, which I’m assuming is what you want.
Let me know if this helps.
Kronicus says:
Sep 27, 2010
Thanks
David Cox says:
Sep 27, 2010
You’re Welcome.
Shireen says:
Feb 8, 2011
AWESOME! Thank you for the Brush link, it helped and now I can use it for other things as well. I love all of your Tutorials.
David Cox says:
Feb 8, 2011
thanks again, and you’re welcome