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This is not an effect, this is a semi-transparent 3D mesh obscuring itself with an incidence based shader, thus giving different opacities where it overlaps. If you were to re-create it in PS, obviously trying to re-create it with a 3D mesh and a texture might work. Otherwise you can of course emulate it with tons of semi-transparent layers stacked on each other, otehr apps like Flamepianter or the Corel ParticleShop plug-in. Even some stuff from the parametric fills section liek the flames might get you there.
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Además de con las técnicas 3D que ha explicado Mylenium, este tipo de fondos pueden realizarse de manera sencilla en Photoshop aplicando filtros de desenfoque sobre manchas y deformando dichas manchas desenfocadas.
Para ello primero seleccionamos una mancha en una capa:
Luego aplicamos un filtro de desenfoque:
Por ultimo deformamos la imagen resultante:
Duplicando esta capa o repitiendo el proceso en otras capas y jugando con sus transparencias se consigue el efecto deseado en pocos pasos.
Buena suerte!
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Thank you so much. Going to try it.
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Hi Louise
It's always nice to make this sort of effect yourself, rather than downloading smoke or abstract brushes. This was done with a custom bush that took me less than a minute to make.
Make a new layer, and run a black to white gradient down the screen
Select a vertical strip about 5 pixels wide, and delete the rest (Invert select and hit delete)
Gaussian blur the thin gradient with a value of about 5
Add a small black dot to the top of the line.
Go Edit > Define Brush preset Call it something like Veil or Curtain.
OK, select the brush tool, which should have your new preset.
In the Brush presets panel set spacing to 1%
Under Shape Dynamics set Angle Jitter to Direction
Under Scattering, se the Count to 2 (to make the line denser)
Under Transfer set Opacity Jitter to Pen Pressure
OK, set the brush opacity to about 60%, and lay down some lines.
If you want to make the effect brighter, duplicate the layer and set to Screen.
You might like to look at this old thread
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Thank you so so much, Trevor for such a good, explanatory tutorial. going to try it immediately.
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Please don't laugh, this is wat I ended up with, lol!
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To make the brush preset you need to be on a new layer, and set the gradient to Linear in the options bar
Select a thin column like below. Mabe a bit thinner than this. An easy way to go from there is to copy the selection to a new layer (Ctrl j - Cmd j). I have turned off the gradient layer for the sake of clarity.
Give the line a small Gaussian blur
I've added a trick now, by setting the eraser to 50% and painting over the line to reduce its opacity. Then paint a small black dot at the top of the line. This gives nice edge effect when painting.
Edit > Define Brush Preset, and give it the settings I mentioned back up the thread.
The lines on the right were done after setting the brush angle to 90°.
Experiment with all the jitter, dynamics and presets. You can't break anything, and you'll discover all sorts of effects.
100% Foreground background color jitter on the left, and 100% Hue jitter on the right. It's a lot of fun.
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Thank you so much for the time you spend to help me. I'm making progress, whoohoo! thank you, thank you!
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Got it, now i can start playing with it, Thanks !