Photoshop Smoke

So I've been doing some mucking around this weekend trying to improve my Photoshop skills by making some smoke in Photoshop using a combination of various filters.

The results turned out a bit meh but still a step in right direction.Think ill stick to using photo reference stuff in future.

Im really trying to get myself motivated to be more proactive and study more.

Blue wierd smoke

 More realistic smoke

VFX stuff

So its been a while since i've made an update. Things have been pretty busy over the last month with starting a new job as junior fx artist.

Recently I been doing a lot of research on vfx and am working on improving my skills in photoshop,after effects and 3d s max when it comes to visual effects.

I have found a few websites such as

www.videocopilot.net has lots of awesome after effect tutorials

http://www.allanmckay.com/allanmckay/

Really love the fume fx stuff and would love to learn more about it.

Either way i've got a week off work before things get really busy, so im looking at using this week to hopefully work on some personal projects.
So keep an eye on the blog for more frequent updates