Flour Puff tutorial?

[Lagartija]

Anyone ever see a decent tutorial for PS that teaches how to create (from scratch) a puff of dust or powder (i.e. imagine taking a photo of someone throwing a spoon full of flour into the air)? I've seen plenty of smoke tuts but I'm talking heavier than smoke. anyway, any ideas? I'll settle for a pretty good set of "powder cloud" brushes if worse comes to worse. I just don't want to make them myself because I'll probably end up with a giant mess and a flour encrusted camera!

[Lagartija]

Oh yeah, and I've Googled "puff" "powder" "dust" "dust cloud" "flour" etc in all sorts of combinations and configurations coupled with "photoshop" and "tutorial", so please don't tell me to "search" or I may have to go after someone, ha! Believe me... I have.

[DDD]

I personally would do a matte painting technique for this....Search for "Photoshop matte painting fog" :P :thumb2: and you may find some techniques to do what you are after....

[mlk]

short of using photographs as reference to paint flour particles there's not much you can do without a compositing app or even a 3d app which sports a particle simulator

if you can find high speed photography stills of things blowing up they often look like powder.

i'd do it the old fashion way with a camera and a good flash

[Lagartija]

Yeah, good suggestions... my wife's gonna freak when she walks in kitchen and I'm slinging flour everywhere trying to get a good photo, haha. I'll try to avoid that scenario if I can.

It just seems like there'd at least be some sweet brushes out there that would have a similar idea. Such as a puff of dust or powder. I keep thinking about some sweet brushes I got from a Computer Arts mag that are of inky blobs under water. Something like that... but dust... but in the air... You know what I'm sayin?