Need help with a certain animation in PhotoShop/ImageReady

[RaDjuh]

Looo guys.... I was wondering if you could help me with the following.

A guy i know from another forum has some amazing PS skillz. Now there is one certain skill he owns wich he won't share with us....
I was wondering if you guys know how to create this effect....

Plz look at the pics below what i mean :

I really want to know how the hell he managed to get that fantastic (imo) animation... Any suggesions? Maybe a tut somewhere?

Ps : all credits go to the creator of those pics, PoorDevil. Respect man!

 

[JoeD]

Re: Need help with a certain animation in PhotoShop/ImageRea

Now there is one certain skill he owns wich he won't share with us....

What's his problem? Wouldn't surpise me if someone else explained him this technique first!

 

[mmagikman]

Well I guess you could start here
http://www.photoshopgurus.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3730&highlight=plasma

You might do a search on the word plasma

I think this all goes back to Greg's plasma effect over at the PST Forum.

 

[heathrowe]

'a skill he owns', now thats a brave claim

 

[Welles]

RaDjuh,

Actually the animation is very simple (once you see it done, that is) although the effect is very fine. To me the effectiveness lies in the skill of the foreground images. Each of them are opaque images with various areas of degrees of transparency. In a PS stack they are the top layer. Beneath them is a layer of a smoke effect or something very similar. That is duplicated a number of times and then each subsequent layer is moved a number of pixels progressively. In each of the images you've provided the 'smoke' layer is moved in different directions, laterally, diagonally, or in a circular motion.

Once you have the Photoshop file complete, jump to Image Ready and use the Animations palette. Create the number of frames you wish and then select the layers you wish to show in each frame by toggling visibility in each of the layers. All the frames would have the top (main image) layer visible but each would have a different smoke layer visible.

A couple of good smoke tutorials are...

http://www.deviantart.com/view/9961640/

http://www.tutorialguide.net/smoke_effect_tutorial.html

 

[marine0311]

Something I put together

It is close to what you want there so if you want to know how to do it I can Post a tutorial.

 

[RaDjuh]

Woei! Plz do post that tut.

 

[marine0311]

OK cool I'll write something up for it.