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Mimicing clouds or smoke in illy

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eastbayrk

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Jan 22, 2008
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Anyone know of any tutorials to help here. Need to make something pretty big so quality is an issue.
 

...one approach is the blend feature, blending shapes of varying shades of grey to white, or the gradient mesh tool...

Andrew
 

...you can create a basic cloud from overlapping ellipses then merge them with the pathfinder add funtion > expand, then use the gradient mesh tool by placing strategic points and using shades of grey to build up depth...

Andrew
 
quick-'n-easy way, also;

overlapping ellipses; drop the opacity & add gaussian blur
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This is great, Andrew, thanks. Every time I come to this forum I learn something.
 
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