A Work in Progress: Smoke Butterfly



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Start with black background

Creation of Smoke Butterfly: Step 1

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Place the some image that's for the butterfly body. The image might need to be resized and rotated

Creation of Smoke Butterfly: Step 2

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Add the first butterfly wing image. If necessary, rotate and resize the image. As we need to overlap the image, as smoke image usually is shot in black background, to reveal the shape of the smoke, we need to change the image blending mode into screen

Creation of Smoke Butterfly: Step 3

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Duplicate the first wing, rotate and resize if necessary. It's suggested to move the registration point to rotate the image at the end of the wing image where it becomes the pivot point

Creation of Smoke Butterfly: Step 4

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Keep duplicating, rotating and resize until the wings are shaped beautifully

Creation of Smoke Butterfly: Step 5

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Here are the original image 01

Creation of Smoke Butterfly: Step 6

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Another original image 02

Creation of Smoke Butterfly: Step 7

Final result

Creation of Smoke Butterfly: Final Result

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