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Making Text Smoke Thicker
I am using displacement and blur to cause my words to apper like somke when they leave the screen. What setting do I need to change to make the smoke appear thicker, almost cloud-like.
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Expand the text? Simple choker with negative values?
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Thanks for the advice. One question, i’m not sure what you mean by “choker”
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Yes. It’s intended for keying, you can remove pixels from around the edge of something. But if you use a negative value, you can expand something. With a text layer I can’t say for sure if the added border will be the same colour as your text. If not, you can always make the text layer a track matte of a layer that’s the colour you want.
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Thanks,
Also what is the best way to also have a smokey background so that it looks like the text is coming from inside the smoke. I tried to do the fractal noise, but that looks too fake.
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I’d be tempted to shoot some footage of smoke with a camera.
But if you want a computer solution, the “simulation” effects such as particle playground can add a level of realism you wouldn’t get with just fractal noise. Possibly foam or particle playground or one of the other particle effects could do it, but learning how to use them properly can be a lot of work.
I’ve done some smoke with particle playground, but that was just a thin stream.
Maybe this:
https://www.creativecow.net/articles/eriksson_emanuel/sand/index.htmlCould be changed to help provide a bunch of wispy smoke. If you want thick smoke, put some of the fractal noise in the background.
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