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Make an effective gas effect that has a nice mist feel to it. Great for signatures.

1) Make a new document, anysize doesn’t matter. Now press “D” on your keyboard to reset the foreground and background colors to black and white. Make sure your background is WHITE.

2) Make a new layer and pply Filter>Render>Clouds. Then apply select the background layer and apply Filter>Render>Difference Clouds.

3) On the bottom background layer still, we now want to apply Filter>Sketch>Chrome with 10 and 10 settings.

4) Select the top layer again. Apply Filter>Artistic>Plastic Wrap with these settings:

Now change the layers blending mode to Color Burn.

5) Now select the top layer and press CNTRL+U. Time to add some color to our graphic.

Top Layer Hue Settings:

Bottom Layer Hue Settings:

6) Select the bottom layer and go to Filter>Distort>Ripple and set the ripple to Medium at 305%.

7) Select the top layer and go to Filter>Distort>Polar Coordinates and set that to Polar to Rectangular. This will give the gas a cool mist effect to it.

Now your done, play around to get your final image looking better by adding some decorations.