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Tutorial – Light up a cigar, fire and smoke.

Submitted by Olieng on Sunday, 23 November 200814 Comments

cigar smoke intro
Here is a very simple tutorial on lighting up a cigar/cigarette complete with a lit bud and smoke.

This effect is very useful for those who love to photograph cigars/cigarettes for a


hobby, commercial ads, or just like to play around with smoke/fire type effects.
Sometimes it can get real messy photographing a real lit cigar and smoke so this can be an alternative.

One my of favorite hobbies on Photoshop are creating fake product ads just for the heck of it, and this was one I did awhile ago.

Select the elliptical marquee tool and draw a circle around the bud area of the cigar and copy and paste that area. CTRL+C, CTRL+V.
cigar smoke tutorial

Double click the layer which you just copied and open up the layer style. Were going to add 3 styles to this layer.

Outer Glow: Give this outer glow a blend mode of “color burn”, give it some noise about 75% or so.

cigar smoke tutorial

Inner Glow: Give this style a black inner glow and size of 25px.

cigar smoke tutorial

Now here is were the lit effect will appear, first blend this layer to Overlay then give it a gradient from black to red. Your cigar should be lit now.

cigar smoke tutorial

Now create a new layer and name it smoke, and go to the link below to download Falln’s Stocks smoke brushes, he makes very awesome ones.

Falln Stocks Smoke Brushes

cigar smoke tutorial

After you downloaded just paint the smoke above the lit area of the cigar and there you have it!

cigar smoke tutorial

Here’s my finished product, I turned it into an ad.

Download the finished PSD here.

14 Comments »

  1. Nailcode
    3:00 pm on December 7th, 2008

    Excellent tutorial – Exactly I was looking for. Thanks and keep up the good work !!

  2. noel
    6:00 am on December 28th, 2008

    how did u drew the smoke? coz i’ve downloaded the brush but i’m having difficulty using it…

  3. noel
    6:30 am on December 28th, 2008

    oh, don’t mind my question.. it’s just i have to restart the application for the brushes to be loaded… tnx anyway, nice work

  4. Olieng
    3:27 pm on December 28th, 2008

    NOEL,

    Glad you got it to work!

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    10:32 am on July 7th, 2009

    Excellent tutorial

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    10:33 am on July 7th, 2009

    Excellent

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