Class Project 19 - Smoke effect
Overview
Daniel Scott
Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor
instructorI discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.
Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.
Hi there, this class project I've given you a couple of example files, just to practice what we learned in the last video. So we're using the exact same techniques. You open up, in your 'Exercise Files', '14 Brushes', open up '05' and '06'. Just copy what we did in that first tutorial, where we dragged the galaxy on. Masked it out and then masked it back in using some of those Smoke Brushes. You don't have to use Smoke Brushes, you might go and find your own brushes to use. I'm sure there's some better Smoke Brushes there somewhere.
Once you're finished I'd love for you to share what you did. I haven't done this one myself so I'd like to see what you end up doing. She looks like a very empowered woman doing some empowering galaxy style stuff. You don't even have to use the galaxy, or this particular image. It works easy with the silhouette though if you can find another silhouette image. Does make life a lot easier for this tutorial. But, if you're like me, you go and find your own silhouette, you have to spend the first two minutes trying to work out how to spell silhouette. Even Google "did you mean" couldn't help me with this one.
Enough about my spelling, let's get on to the homework. Then once you're finished, share it with me. And I will see you in the next video.