 everybody welcome back to another adobe photoshop tutorial and this one i'm going to show you how to light a cigarette or a cigar using only photoshop nothing else this is not a lit cigar here's a final copy here's the original let's get rid of everything pardon me there we go we've got a cigar over our nash tray and then we added in our lighting and all that fancy stuff and we lit it how did i do it well let's just start from scratch and i will show you step by step here's the original image the next step is we want to find a lit cigar if you go to google i've done lit cigar and i found a really really good one but it's got a yellow background it's not it's it's not good for that so i'm going to show you some advanced techniques how to to get a image that isn't a png or a good jpeg to make it work okay good all right now i've got that image here it is in my pictures folder i'm going to drag and drop it on top and then i'm going to twist it around like this and it's going to match kind of the direction but not quite perfectly the next step is you want to go ahead and change the blending mode from normal to screen and when you do that you can now sort of see where your new image is based on top of the old image so for me i kind of want to have something like this so i want the ash to be really big so what i want is i want the ash which is the tip here i want that to be able to go around the whole edge here so maybe something like this and maybe i might even have to make it a little taller something like that and what i'm looking at is this part here so if i turn this off it's it's kind of like the crust of a volcano i want this area to have a full amount of ash everything else i'm going to take out so there you go we've got that now this is the new technique i want to show you if you hold down the option key or the alt key on a pc and the shift key and then you click on this mask button here you create an inverted mask and what this is it's basically a black mask where the normal one is white and now we're going to go to the left side and grab a brush i'm going to grab just a regular brush just like this and it's going to be a soft round brush and let's make it i don't know something like 40 pixels and now watch what i do i'm going to go ahead and switch it to white and now i'm going to paint around the inside of the cigar just in that area only so we'll zoom in a little bit and you'll see here that i'm just painting in that ash and that sort of look that we're going for so i'll just do this nice and quickly and it's gonna be a little bit too bright based on you know it's just it's too bright based on the image but we're going to go and make a hue and saturation adjustment and change that in a few more seconds so here we go something like that and keep in mind that if you make a mistake or you go outside the lines you can always just change the color of the brush and it will then turn to um it'll just paint over top of it and you can make fix mistakes so if i click x it'll go from white to black and now i can sort of keep that sort of inside of it in the right x again i can add a little bit up here as i see fit something like that it looks like the caldera of a volcano if i was to to say it uh so there we go now there we go we've got this in it's not quite right but it's getting there the next step is we're going to click on this and we're now going to go ahead and add in a hue adjustment uh hues uh we're going to do a curves adjustment first pardon me i'm mixing up my words here create new filler adjustment and then we're going to do curves and then we're going to open this up you'll see the curves and i'm going to pull it down i'm going to pull quite a bit down something like that just to get the ball rolling now you're going to notice of course that it's applying to the whole image we don't want that we only want to apply it to the end of the cigarette so what i'm going to do is i'm going to hold down the alt key or the option key if you're on a mac hover between these two lines here and this creates a clipping mask and now this curves adjustment only applies to the ash in the cigar we're getting close everybody now the next step let's keep going is we've got this and it looks pretty good i could probably make it a little bit darker you know maybe something like that yeah that looks a little better we want to add in smoke of course right so what i've gone is i've gone ahead and grabbed some smoke off the internet i grabbed a cigarette png and it's not a good one but again we're working with harder to use stuff because if you can use these types of images you can do it with good images and png so there you go i dragged and dropped it in and now i'm just going to kind of go ahead and twist it and what i want is i want this curve of cigarette smoke right here to start here and then kind of go off so up out through the out through the screen so there you go i fit enter and again this does not look right not to panic this time we're going to create a white mask so i'm just going to add a layer mask and it's going to be a normal one and then i'm going to switch to my brush and in this case i'm just going to brush away all of the stuff except the smoke that i want so we're going to switch the brush from white to black and watch all of this now is disappearing we don't want it we don't need it it adds no value we're just going to leave that little bit of cigarette smoke there and yeah something like that okay there's a chance that that's all you need and that looks pretty good but it might not be all the way there if you want the smoke to be a little bit more salient and a little brighter the next step and this is an optional one is you can click on this and you can now add in a levels adjustment if you do that you now want to hold down the Alt to the Option key so you're going to clip it to the to the layer below so we're going to do the same clipping technique just like that and now when i adjust the levels it's going to only apply to the cigarette smoke so let's see if we can make some adjustments here there we go i pulled down the whites here i'm adding in a little bit more brightness something like maybe something like that what do you think does that look pretty good that looks pretty believable to me that's how you do this oh no hold on i don't agree this looks a little rough here at the top of that smokestack maybe i should adjust that a little bit let's see no actually you know what that doesn't look too bad i might add in a little bit here i'm going to go ahead and brush in a little bit more at the bottom i'm going to make this a little bit more believable something like that so the cigarette kind of comes out at the top but in a nutshell that's how you do this technique inside photoshop from start thanks for watching