Can someone point me to a tutorial to learn how to create this effect?

Alright lads, here's the image:




Basically, I want to learn how this smokey effect has been created. I'm sure there must be a few tutorials explaining this and it looks relatively easy to do but I just can't get my head around it.

After hours of searching, I guess I've hit a roadblock so any help will be appreciated. Please point me to one of the tutorials showing this effect

 

The black background with radial light is obviously a radial gradient, so that's easy.
The "smokey" effect as you call it was probably made using the pen tool. Look up tutorials on youtube related to the pen tool in Photoshop.

These are just my guesses, you obviously can't know exactly how it was made. Good luck!

 

Try playing around with circles filled with white-to-transparent gradients at low opacity, I think that'll do the trick.

 

This can be achieved with marquee tool, brush, eraser or a pen and gradient tool (if you want),

Fill your canvas with dark color so you can see the result, use the marquee tool to draw some circles on the stage (or use pen), grab a soft white brush with opacity 20-10% and start carefully brushing the edges in every of the circles (or get gradient tool and choose radial or linear), keep lowering the opacity, till you get the desired effect. Also use eraser if you want a fading out effect.

 

Thanks guys. I've tired using pen tool/marquee tool with gradients but I can't achieve the exact result. That's why I wanted a link to some similar tutorial.

 

use pen tool and then a brush with a shade of grey...it's not that hard to make. you need to use all of the tools if you want to make similar designs

 

http://www.tutorial9.net/tutorials/photoshop-tutorials/creating-the-windows-vista-lighting-effect/

I think that might be what you are looking for

 

Great tutorial thanks

 

its the combination of 3 layers blended with each other and i bet pen tool is also used here.

 

A friend pointed me to this one. Sharing with you all since it might help someone out:

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tutorials-effects/creating-a-mac-type-background-in-photoshop/

 

thanks for tutorial...its great!

 

ya i agree with Swaqqboi
its a matter of how well u use gradients along with pen tool usage..and try different combinations.

 

please look at this forum, there are several tutorials that have been distributed addresses.

 

1. Grey background.
2. P tool.
3. Blending options> iner glow.
1 minute work.
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