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Creating smoke tutorial

I found an interesting photoshop tutorial on internet. It talked about how to make smoke look real. I think it's useful. If you need a smoke for your art work, you can make it yourself. We don't need to capture a smoke anymore. Below here is my work and the link to the tutorial:

Source: http://www.cheb.com.au/creating-realistic-smoke-photoshop-effect/

Collage

This is the collage that I make for the assignment 2A.

I used the human face and the skull as the express component of the collage. The main theme of the collage is all about smoking issue. I used a pictures of a Lung Cancer to show how smoking effect to health.

In the order way, I used a picture of a grave to show the final result of smoking too much. The picture of the cigarette ash and some packets of cigarette are used to show something involve to the smoking issue and the smoke in the collage is made by Photoshop. It's used to make the collage more abstract and attractive.

Layout

Art Work

After fooling around with photoshop and follow the tutorials, I've got some pictures

Making a MAC background

This is a tutorial about making a background in Mac style. Now you can make your PC's background as a Mac.

Source: http://psdtuts.com/tutorials-effects/creating-a-mac-type-background-in-photoshop/

Glow Effect Tutorial

I found this tutorial when I was looking for making the text shiny. This tutorial looks so cool. It

shows how to make the text step by step with images for illustration. You can find it here: http://psdtuts.com/tutorials-effects/advanced-glow-effects/

Hope everyone enjoy it

Source:http://psdtuts.com/tutorials-effects/advanced-glow-effects/

Yakuza Tattoo

Yakuza is considered as a mafia organization in Japan. The term Yakuza means a gang of bastards (slang). In japanese, Yakuza means "eight - nine - three". The sum of them is 20. The lowest point in western cards. The origin of Yakuza tattoo came from Bakuto. The tattoos are very common within the yakuza members. Until today, most of the yakuza members have a tattoo. They tattooed themselves for each victory they got (usually a crime). The more crimes that they had committed, the more tattoos they would have. A tattoo of a yakuza can take up to 100 hours.

A tattoo can cover all the body of a yakuza member. In fact, the tattoo is thick enough to make you think they are wearing a T-shirt when they naked. The tattoo can be about dragons, flowers, mountain lanscape, the sea, fish, and abstract designs.

Sources: 

http://www.yakuza-mafia.blogspot.com/

http://www.vysa.jp/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1408&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

http://www.tattooology.com/yakuza-tattoo.html