Now go to filter>convert for smart filters. I used the free font Dancing Script, which you can download here.Ĭhange this text layer’s blend mode to ‘overlay’: Type out some text in the right-center of your canvas.

Reduce this layer’s opacity to 40% to make the clouds more subtle: Because your selection edge was feathered, your cloud area should have a nice soft edge: With your selection in place, go to filter>convert for smart filters. Then create a rough selection around the center of your canvas: Select your lasso selection tool and make it’s feather amount ’30px’. Set your toolbar foreground color to 49667a and your background color to 1b2934. Here is a preview of the image that we are going to be creating:Ĭreate a new layer called ‘background’ and fill this layer with black. Oh, and if you were wondering, here is the outcome from the original tutorial: I also used a more up to date workflow that’s almost entirely non-destructive (meaning you can edit your image later at any time). So anyway, this tutorial is my attempt at a more realistic smokey text effect (because I still had yet to find one I really liked on any site). It’s highly destructive, and uses an older version of Photoshop. The effect is kind of cool, but in my opinion not all that realistic.Ģ. I’ve come a long way as a designer and can honestly do better now. However, all I could think when re-reading it the other day were two things:ġ.

It still to this day is one of our highest trafficked posts, and has received plenty of positive comments. One of our most popular posts is our tutorial Create Smokey Typography in 12 Steps. I had the idea for this tutorial when I browsing some of our most popular posts the other day.

Create a Smoke Text Effect Using Photoshop’s Non-Destructive Tools An Updated Version of a Classic PSDFAN Tutorial:

Cigarette smoke brush photoshop