Smokey Writing Draft

This is a drawing of how we planned our front cover too look like or our poster. For this we planned to have the title in a smokey writing to come off the match. I looked up how to do this and made it myself.









1.

First I created a new document size 600X400px. I then created a new layer called ‘background’ and filled this layer with black.

2.

 I then created a new layer called ‘clouds’. I set my toolbar foreground colour to 49667a and my background colour to 1b2934. I then selected my lasso selection tool and made its feather amount ’30px’. I then created a rough selection around the centre of the canvas.

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 I then went to filter>convert for smart filters. So I am able to select the filter I want. I then when to filter>render>clouds. Due to my selection edge being feathered, my cloud area has a soft edge. I then reduced the layers opacity to 50% to make the clouds more subtle.



4.

I then inserted the text that I wanted by changing the colour and the font to the way I wanted it. I then changed the text layer’s blend mode to ‘overlay’.

5.

I then went back to filter>convert for smart filters. Then to filter>blur>motion blur. I then changed the motion blur settings the angle: 90 and distance 20 pixels. This then started to give it a smoky appearance. I then duplicated the text layer, then reduced the opacity of the duplicate layer to 15% to make it faded.

6.

I then placed the pictures of smoke in on my canvas over the writing where I want the letters to look smoky.

7.

I then played around with the hue and saturation to make the picture brighter. I changed the saturation to -100. This created an underlying smoke layer. I then changed my smoke layer’s blend mode to ‘colour dodge’ and its opacity to 15% to fade it so you can see the word.

Final Draft