GIMP Tutorial: Smoke Effect 

I have just downloaded Gimp just to do this effect. What a world we live in... Gimp free, inkscspe free and Nicks tutorials free. Wow! Let that sink in. Thanks to all 3 of the above. Much appreciated guys.

"Make sure you have it set up so the background color is white to create a white document. Now use the paintbucket to fill it with black." Brilliant!

This is my first comment on youtube ever... I posted it because this video deserves a compliment. You have a beautiful channel with many interesting tutorials and your explanation is very smooth and consistent. Thanks.

Beautiful man, you're the only one who could help me, I watched 8 videos and yours was the only one that saved me

Wow. I've watched a few GIMP vids. You are not only great at what you do, you have a great teacher/ video presence. Thank you for this, awesome.

I just wanted to stop by and tell you that this is the very first tutorial I followed when I first downloaded GIMP almost two years ago. Because you did such an amazing job at being clear and thorough, I believed I could learn GIMP, which I thought to be an insurmountable task at the time. I had never used any kind of photo editing or digital art software before. Now I use GIMP and Inkscape (also thanks to your tutorials) daily to create designs for my home decor shop. You never know when you're going to inspire someone to try something new. Thank you for all of your wonderful tutorials.

Went freelancer and was looking for a cheaper alternative to Photoshop. I've been an Adobe girl for the last 6 years so wasn't sure something else would be as good as that software. You totally blew my mind! THANKS A LOT for these videos, really! It feels so good to know there are alternatives out there, it makes new startings easier :)

Thank you Nick. You've been my guru for more than a year. Your teaching method is excellent.

My tutorial video for how to install these brushes: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X92Tw5-jWTE.html

Hello nick. I discovered your channel a few days ago, and since then I have seen 3 to 4 lives a day, the channel has an excellent content, I am seeing 3 or 4 year olds that you did and they are all of excellent quality, it shows that you are indeed a professional. Thank you very much for sharing your work. I'm from the IT infrastructure area, but I can't stop seeing what is possible to do with Gimp and inkscape. Thanks again and keep posting new videos.

I have been wanting to learn how to create this effect for an album cover. I woke up this morning and found this video on my news feed. You make fantastic content AND you also have a new subscriber! THANK YOU SO MUCH! :)

I'm just starting to use gimp as a hobby and your videos are really good. Thank you so much for sharing these resources!

Dude I just wanna say you are helping me so much. I got screwed by my college but anyways using gimp and it being free and watching you has helped me get much better at what I wanna do

Take a shot every time he says "That's pretty good."

This was so helpful. Thank you so much for posting these awesome tutorials.

Gimp seems to have come along in recent years. I used to find it really restrictive but looking at your tutorials it shows how far it has come.

Your tutorial videos are the easiest to follow and well put together thanks so much

perfect tutorial! as always. had fun creating this and cant wait to test it out on different pictures for fun. thank you again nick!

Nice video! And those things that show what you press are really good for people (like me) that don't know all the shortcuts yet, Thank you

Love your tutorials! im amazed how fast i can produce this with just one view of this video, Thanks so much!

Better tutorials of all. Thanks for you, Nick

what a beautiful tutorial, exactly what i needed with little in the way of fluff!

awesome sauce - never thought of the transparency trick

Awesome tutorial. This is somewhat similar to the effect of Chinese ink which I like so much. First time as a newbie that I come into contact with brushes. Thanks a lot!

Finally....a tutorial that has some really good technique in it!! Thank you!

Very Informative, helpful and Educational video! Thx for the tutorial man!

Thank you so much Nick, I found your channell today and became instant sub! You are awesome at teaching these tutorials!!! Thank you so much my friend!

Love your Tutorials! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

I love it this effect. Thanks for sharing Nick!

Your efforts, your work,can be seen in us.

Great! thanks nick, your tutorial is very helpful and so easy to understandable

Thanks Nick. This is a stunning effect! Thanks so much.

Really excited to try this feature out! Amazing work !

Installed, everything works, thanks!

Thanks for this tutorial! I tried this for my designing web page graphics project.

wow!!! that is pretty cool! I've watched the video and followed step by step ( which of course took me almost two hours, but in my defense I've never done anything like this), and I finally figure it out! came out pretty cool!!! Thanks!!! I just had to search (a lot) how to save the brushes on gimp using MacBook.....but is all good now! Thanks a bunch!

Definitely the best channel for learning inkscape and gimp, thank you for all this information.👍👍😃😃

cheers from brazil Nick I love your channel, yours tutorials are awesome pretty clear instructions !

I am only learning about digital art and these brushes are kickass

Thank You. Finally A tutorial with simple & complete instructions to follow ABC... Really would like to make a short animation with the smoke effect somehow.

This was amazing! Please do more GIMP tutorials

Thanks, Nick, I was about to give up on Gimp but you are a good teacher and I got one of these done, tho I did cheat a bit. I smudged the edges of the pic first then added my layer, lol but it looks great and now I feel I can do more and keep going thanks again

This video was AWESOME! Thank you for showing this effect and providing clear instructions every step of the way!

Thanks! I've been searching how to get it and this is brilliant :D

This actually helped out a lot thanks for the help

Thank you so much for sharing all this. Great stuff!

NICK! Happy new Year when it comes... may blessings and prosperity fill your home and life. 👊

Great video as always Nick! Someone may have already suggested this but you should make a video on how to create a simple animated GIF logo using GIMP. That'd be neat. I apologize if someone already suggested that.

Thanks to your awesome tutorial GIMP starts to make sense ;-) Thank You!

You are perfect at teaching! I have learned so much from you!

Love your videos dude. They're awesome! I've learned so much!

Nick, once again another brilliant video. West

thanks a lot!!! so nice reverb

I love ur intro and outro music... It's so cool

What a lad, great tutorial man was super helpful!

Nick, you're awesome.

Thank you! This help me with future project

The last bit is really helpful. I've wanted to reproduce an image like this for a website header. Thanks

Great video. Really useful. I just used it to design my logo. Thanks

Excellent video! Thank you!

Just found your fab channel and subscribed. Very easy to follow thank you. Keep up your amazing work 😁😁 loving it so much..

Nice and easy to follow. Thanks man. Cheers.

Bro this is dope AF. Thank u!

Nice tutorial, thanks very much. I used Photoshop a lot when I had Windows but now I have Linux Mint 18.2 I am looking at GIMP.

thanks for both video and brushes

Just found your channel and it’s amazing ❤️🙌 Hope you do more GImp Videos in Future 😄

Great work, your channel is so helpful

Great Tutorial!

Awesome!!! I didn't know about your channel, I've been searching for this.

Thank you man for sharing this stuff

Thanks Nick!

So fun to play with, Thanks man!

Very HAPPY with this video- people with my disability (A.D.D) attention def (yea, I know phht) have a hard time remembering stuff and this video made my photo come out great, so thank you sir- very much appreciated!

This is great, thank you!

Sleek work man! Great job!

Great!! I like your tutorial style. Understandable and with no frills. Again: GREAT!! Greetings from Germany ;-)

Great tutorial!

1:44 This dude's got mad "world weary detective" vibes. Also kinda looks like a character portrait for Baldur's Gate. LOL Thanks for another great tutorial Nick.

your tips is very helpful, i press like button, thnx...

Awesome, so moody and menacing! Love it!!! :)

Thanks a lot for this video, it's been amazing

Sweet, nice work!

love your tutorial nick you are the best😚😚😚

Simply put Amazing

Thanks from Spain!

Good video Thanks Nick

This video really helped me

Damn bro top tier content, I'm sure you had to visit multiple countries to produce a masterpiece like this

Love you bro!!! Excellent Work!!!

Awesome honorable señor!!

Thanks man, these brushes are so damn cool!!

Nick Thanks 4 the good works - PRO!

I just discovered you! Excellent Gimp tut! I think I'll be switching to Gimp instead of Photoshop soon.

Loved it, thank you

I like it when he says "Where ever that is"

Thanks Nick for it!!!!

that's extremely cool

Just subscribed to you thank you so much for these videos

Super useful. Thanks a lot!

I've been using gimp for years now and this is the first time stumbling upon your videos, awesome work man! will definitely be taking a look at your other videos. :D I just had one question and I've used this before in my other work but i never really quite understood it, I was wondering what exactly adding a layer mask does, like why do you have to add a layer mask then apply it when you could just make a new layer?