Creating Smoke in Adobe Flash

[...] 2 Cool Tutorials Ever wanted to create smoke using Adobe Flash - Tom Green’s got your answer over on his latest tutorial: Tom Green: Flash for Smoke [...]

Good Tutorial

Thanks Rajesh, most appreciated.

Why does my smoke movie clip turn all white when I select the blending mode to Lighten? I made the smoke movie clip in photoshop w/the clouds filter.

Thanks for any help.
Kristine

Don’t have a clue other than the fact the colors of the pixels in the image in a blend mode interact with the colors of the pixels under them.The issue could be the underlying image is lighter than the smoke.

Thanks Tom, you’re right.

My underlying image is a white background & the smoke is too light to show up enough. I’ll try to figure some other way around it.

It’s a great tutorial though!

Thanks for the tutorial. I animated some steam rising from a cup of hot chocolate and it looked really good. I couldn’t find the motion editor panel, though, maybe because I’m using CS3. J

That would be the reason. You can use Tweens and the Free transform tool in CS3.

Its nice and helpful tutorial. Thanx

Nice little tutorial….. the new motion editor is a totally different way of working. I am an Adobe Certified Instructor, and when I teach photoshop tips and tricks I usually create steam or vapor in rising from a coffee cup…. You used to have to use PNG(24) to get that effect in flash….. pretty cool now that there are blend modes!

I might have to combine the tutorial on creating the vapor and then animating it in flash.

P.S. Using the clouds filter creates a mixed blurred pixels throughout, try something simple like drawing it with the airbrush and then blurring it. But I will put a tutorial up on creating smoke in photoshop on my site. Stay tuned!

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This was a great video. I never knew tutorials where this fun I thought they where a bunch of mubo jumbo but these are great keep up the great work tom. I have one question for tom can I use flash to make myspace banners and animated cartoons.

Aww i get to where you scale the smoke, then it brakes off with commercials! Is the full length available somewhere else?