Creating a Real Cigarette
If you have read the title, you will realize this is not a healthy tutorial. Let’s create a cigarette with a realistic result.
Open a new document (500×300px and grey background).
Create a ((new layer)).
With ((Rectangular Marquee Tool)), draw a selection as the one that appears in the image below, and fill it in with white.
Create a ((new layer)).
With the selection still active, select ((Rectangular Marquee Tool)) again and, pressing and holding Alt, reduce the selection so that you can draw the filter.
Fill in the new selection with color #b89004.
Ctrl + Click the first layer.
Double click the filter’s layer in order to go to ((Blending Options)).
((Inner Shadow)).
((Gradient Overlay)).
After applying ((Layer Styles)), the filter will look like this.
Let’s move the styles to another layer. Right click the name of the filter layer and choose ((Copy Layer Styles)) from the drop-down menu.
Right click the other layer and select ((Past Layer Styles)).
As you will see in the following image, we have copied the ((Layer Styles)) to a different layer.
Standing in the filter layer, go to ((Filter))-((Noise))-((Add Noise)).
On the other layer, press Ctrl + F to repeat ((Noise)).
Let’s create a ((Pattern)). Open a new document (6×8px and white background). Zoom in on the image to the highest level.
Select ((Pencil Tool)), 2px and draw a back line as the one that appears below.
Go to ((Edit))-((Define Pattern)), enter the name, and save it.
Go to the white part of the cigarette and open ((Blending Options)). Select ((Pattern Overlay)), look for the one you created and reduce the ((opacity)) to 3%.
Duplicate the filter layer (Ctrl + J).
Select ((Brush Tool)) with #fdc333 as front color and 2px. What you have to do now is to draw the yellow points that appear in the filters of all cigarettes. Then reduce the ((opacity)) to 60%.
Now, let’s create the label that separates the filter from the other part.
Create a ((new layer)).
Create a small selection. The go to ((Gradient Tool)), ((Lineal Gradient)), and choose a gradient that is 40% black, 40% white, 20% black. Take a look at the image below if you have doubts.
Create a ((new layer)).
Select ((Brush Tool)), ((Smoother Round)), look for any brown tone and start painting the tobacco.
Done! The tutorial is finished. Don’t forget: smoking is harmful!
