Made late last night while trying a bunch of different steps, of course didn't write anything down. Used curve bend on text and some iwarp on the top and blended some grayish blue and white

i think it looks great, alc

although its a bit dark

maybe use the radiaal gradient on the BG ?

i dont think it sucks, molly

it looks a bit surreal, like something from Alice in Wonderland
that is smoke from the blue caterpillar

It is smoke from some where alright. My smoke brushes are all horizontal...smoke goes up

ahem, you can change the angle of brushes

I knew that...I don't think very clearly these days

will maybe somebody create a nice filter to experiment on these nice effects?...

greachan, fluffybunny, he4rty, alc50 and molly:
great job, all of you! completely different interpretations of smoke and they all look good. i suppose i will have to have a go at this too, i was supposed to make greeting cards but now i think i'll play with smoke instead ...

of course no effect is worth trying unless it can be applied on a paisley . this was harder than i had hoped for, but the paisley came out okay, i think.

Looks good to me, Now all you need is a big fat cigar blowing a paisley smoke ring.

damn you AnMal, topped us all with your dark side powerz

looks...wicked !

any hot tips to share ?

@fluffybunny: dont send me PM's, please, we have this thread for communicating

i usually restrict my comments to stuff i feel i have something to say
i like what you did, and you got the blue glow, nobody was able to copy

ok, so I got carried away with smoke brushes...

lol, that is so funny 2-ton. at least you got it nicely colored.

I tried. I followed the tutorial done in PS, but I could not follow step-by-step. So I invented a way to get something. Only when I finished, it is seen that the Esper then posted as he did. I'll try later!

akros: how did you do that?! to me it looks a lot better than that ps tutorial result!
2-ton: what have you been burning there? the smoke looks almost poisonous . i like the shape of your text, looks very smokey.
esper: i keep saying: no dark side for me! i'm a pink fluffy jedi.
no hot tips to give, but i have a slightly-more-than-lukewarm one: i used the water filter under deformation in g'mic instead of the ripple filter and i think that made smokier deformation.
he4rty: or a pipe! and captain haddock puffing on it . thanks for commenting!

@akros...that is amazing. Would you please do us a tutorial on that?
AnMal hit the nail on the head by saying it is better than the original PS one. I can't get my smoke brushes to work that way. pleeeeeeze!

amazing Akros, you clearly beat everybody, even the master of the pink side, from the paisley order
next time you have to write a tutorial !