Comments on: Creating Smoke in Adobe Flash

By: celinne

celinne — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:36:40 +0000

anyone know how to find filter tab in property inspection? i cant find it. thanks

By: Adamanta

Adamanta — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:31:33 +0000

Thanks, good tutorial, involving, I didn’t feel like I was going to sleep! Comin’ right at ya!

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:38:29 +0000

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

By: Donnie Heard

Donnie Heard — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:04:34 +0000

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.

By: Mark Itskowitch

Mark Itskowitch — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:10:11 +0000

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!

By: Zamal

Zamal — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:58:50 +0000

Its nice and helpful tutorial. Thanx

By: Tom Green

Tom Green — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:43:07 +0000

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

By: Jamie Wilson

Jamie Wilson — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:28:04 +0000

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

By: Kristine Farley

Kristine Farley — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:59:48 +0000

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!

By: Tom Green

Tom Green — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:45:09 +0000

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.

By: Kristine Farley

Kristine Farley — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:16:15 +0000

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

By: Tom Green

Tom Green — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:53:50 +0000

Thanks Rajesh, most appreciated.