On a moviesite, my eye felt (surprisingly) on this poster for an new movie: “This film is not yet ratedâ€.
I thougt: “Nice Photoshop. Let’s try to do this myself.â€
And so I did. This is what I came up with:
Of course, I wrote a “making ofâ€. Read on:
The working process consists of three phases: first we make the mark, then the smoke and then we throw everything together and apply the special effects.
Start the Photoshopmachine!
A: The Mark.
1. Open a new file, size 250 x 130, on a transparent background.
Fill (“Gâ€) the area with a red color (I used A11D21).
2. Ctrl-A to select all, then click select>modify>contract and set this to 10 pixels.
Now you have a smaller selection, hit “delete†so you have a red 10-pixel border.
3. In the same red color, type your text. I wrote PHOTO-SHOP with this font settings:font: Arial Black
size: 60
horizontal spacing: -50
vertical spacing: 50
4. In the main menu, choose layer>merge visible to combine the border and the text into one, editable layer.
B: The Smoke.
1. Leave the mark-file open and open another one, dimensions 1000 x 1000.
Press “D†to reset the foreground and background colors to black and white.
2. Apply the filter>render>clouds to generate some clouds (if you don’t like the random result, press ctrl-F to apply the filter again and get another one).
3. Now we have white clouds on a black background; we want to get rid of these black areas. Therefore, click select>color range in the main menu. When you get the settings popup, click on a black area with the eyedropper and set the fuzziness to 141.
4. Go in Quick Mask-mode (”Q”).
Apply the filter>blur>Gaussian blur with value 5,0.
Return to normal mode and hit delete. Ctrl-D to deselect.
If everything went fine, you should now have white clouds only.
C. The Assembling.
1. Open your model picture.
2. Start by dragging the mark into the picture. Using ctrl-T or edit>transform>free transform and edit>transform>rotate to adjust the size and angle until it looks right to you.
3. At this moment, the brand is to straight, so it seems to floate. That’s because it doesn’t follow the curves of our model. Therefore, apply filter>distort>wave and fill in these values:
number of generators: 1
wavelength: 122 – 551
amplitude: 5 – 35
scale: 100% - 100%
(Other settings might work as well; you can experiment with the distort filters pinch and spherize too.)
4. Apply the filter>Gaussian blur> 1,5 and then set the blending mode to “color burnâ€.
Duplicate the layer, place it underneath the original mark-layer, and apply filter>blur>Gaussian blur> 10 on it (blending mode of this layer copy is still set to color burn).
This should be enough for the mark. On to the smoke …
5. Throw in the smoke-layer (drag from the apart Photoshop-file).
Adjust the size with the free transform tool (ctrl-T) and then apply a layer mask.
As you know, brushing with black in a layer mask erases, white recalls. Now brush the edges away with a soft brush and a low opacity (about 20%), as well as unnessary (or unreal looking) parts.
6. Set the blending mode of the smoke layer to “screenâ€.
7. Finishing touch: on a new layer, paint some white lines with a soft brush from the border to the smoke and then apply a gaussian blur (5) on this layer. Again, set the blending mode to screen.
This is my finished result:
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February 16th, 2006 at 8:23 am
Nice work, I love it. The smoke effect is good.
February 16th, 2006 at 11:41 am
i dont know how to work this thing.
HELP!!!!
February 16th, 2006 at 2:42 pm
It would been better WITHOUT the smoke.
But otherwise, nice work:)
February 16th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
Oh, really nice idea!! 10\10!
February 16th, 2006 at 5:24 pm
I like the tut but the smoke looks really fake. srry to say.. rest is perfect except for you could make some red skin round the mark using eleticol marque tool and just make it darken the skin in dark red..
February 16th, 2006 at 5:24 pm
All maner taught is clear. But smoking effect is refused.
February 16th, 2006 at 6:30 pm
I Love this idea…Interesting smoke effect!
February 16th, 2006 at 6:30 pm
Realy nice idea, I love it…
February 16th, 2006 at 8:13 pm
Very nice tutorial
February 16th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
Great Tut !!!
February 16th, 2006 at 10:57 pm
Pretty good, but I think there should be less smoke…
Anyway its good
February 17th, 2006 at 3:17 pm
i have problem with doing it, i can’t click select - modify - contract, pls someone help send info at jayef@abv.bg
February 17th, 2006 at 5:34 pm
Wah this is a great tutorial, thanks for publishing it
February 17th, 2006 at 8:55 pm
Love the effect
Digg.
You should be removing the popups, they are annoying
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February 17th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
@Kiltak: Do you see pop-ups? Hm, must be from that irritating NedStat - I was using another statistics program but that was using too much CPU, so I’m right now in search of a better - preferably free - statistics program, without popups.
Please note that I don’t earn any money with these popups
BTW: In Firefox, I see nothing ..
Get Firefox!
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Yeah, I think it was from your other counter. I also use SiteMeter, and it’s great… You’ll see, looking at your traffic 24 hours after having a story published on DIGG is very interesting.. I had 4 stories published on there, and the best one brought me around 30000 hits.. Not bad
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ya’ll might find that one interesting then, I made that for quakecon2005 while i was at the convention for my friends 24″ dell widescreen
-sosuke
February 17th, 2006 at 10:50 pm
looks great! can’t wait to try it out….
James
February 17th, 2006 at 11:33 pm
@Sosuke: Nice one
February 18th, 2006 at 12:29 am
I was just amazed we used different paths and ended up with similar results, great tutorial, getting branded / tattooed this was is much less painful than the real deal, and you get to see what you will look like with a goofy tattoo
February 18th, 2006 at 12:36 am
..should have made a displacement map, would have made the effect much more realistic. also, the steam/smoke is too strong.
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February 18th, 2006 at 2:46 am
The tattoo is good. The smoke looks like crap and masks the tattoo
February 18th, 2006 at 3:57 am
What a cool tutorial!
February 18th, 2006 at 3:59 am
the smoke is a little too heavy and slightly generic, but the overall is nicely done and high quality. thanks for the tip!
February 18th, 2006 at 4:21 am
“fell (surprisingly) on this poster” lol
February 18th, 2006 at 5:46 am
cool! there shouldn’t be drops of perspiration on the newly-branded skin.
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February 18th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
Nice work.
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I have some free photoshop brushes over at my site you might be interested in. I made them myself. once again nice tut.
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February 18th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
wonderfull ; ))
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February 19th, 2006 at 4:20 am
Tell me I’m dreaming, but I was at the newsagents today flicking through a special edition of Computer Arts magazine and I swear I saw something exactly like this. I think it was a different technique, but the whole look (a branded stamp on a body) was the same.
February 19th, 2006 at 9:11 am
Very nice effect.
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February 19th, 2006 at 3:26 pm
the contract part dont work but i got around that and the smoke could be done without but otherwise it is good woop
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February 25th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
I have troubles making the red boarder. When I have hit ctrl+A I get the area selected but then when I’m going to do the “select>modify>contract” I don’t get a smaller selection. What must I do do make it work? Please help!
Thanks!
February 26th, 2006 at 3:33 am
what were you doing on taht site anyways?
lol j/k
February 26th, 2006 at 9:05 pm
nice tutorial! and easy - perfect..
February 26th, 2006 at 9:35 pm
Border:
Fill the square with your color
then
shift + ctrl+i to select inverse
select - modify - contract - delete
February 28th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
Okey, thanks!
Does anyone know were to find a picture like the one that the maker och this tutorial used?
March 11th, 2006 at 10:37 pm
Probably lower the opacity of the steam to lighten it up, I think it would look better.
April 1st, 2006 at 3:06 pm
What settings do you need for the page when trying to apply the smoke render? I do as the tutorials says, create a 1000 x1000 page, but it wont let me select the clouds option from render, any ideas?
April 29th, 2006 at 7:39 am
great tuts man…!
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May 16th, 2006 at 2:05 am
Havin a hard time getting the smoke to look right. It just looks like a blur.
May 31st, 2006 at 9:30 pm
If you’re having a hard time, select your blank space, hit CTRL-A then edit, stroke, add 10 stroke with dark red.
BTW: got the smoke problem fixed.
June 28th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
superb tutorial man, i’ve used it on my clan site in conjunction with a raw meat tut i saw so its branded flesh
July 5th, 2006 at 6:48 pm
oh yeah!!:D:D:D that was realley amazing ! keep it up ! I want some more ! ;D ;P
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:58 pm
did I block in a part of the lesson because I don’t understand many the English and I have a French version of the “PHOTODHOP” be this-that you are able to send me the french version of this lesson?? plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
November 9th, 2006 at 4:27 am
I cant figure out this ….. plz help!!!!!
Fill (“Gâ€) the area with a red color (I used A11D21).
February 19th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
where are the blending options and the ‘drag and drop’ from each file to file doesn’t seem to work. Also when creating the box in the beginning how do you keep the box - layer 1 and the txt layer together? I think you could be more descriptive.
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