Well, I'm going out on a limb with this one. I'm hoping it won't be ruled as too edited, because the smoke was pretty hard to see, and I had to dodge it to make it show up enough.. and even then, it's pretty sparse. I'm really pleased with how this turned out, though, at any rate. I took this with my mom's help (she's a smoker) - I had her put a lit cigarette into the bottle and quickly pull it away so I could snap a picture as some smoke escaped. There was very little smoke, and I ended up doing this with less than 2 hrs to the challenge deadline, so considering.. I'm quite pleased. I wish the texture didn't show so much behind the smoke, though. I know voters will hate the border ;)
Editing: Resized, dodged the smoke into a more obvious state of being, curves and spot editing to blacken and get rid of texture, cloning to remove a couple of reflections in the bottle, Neat Image to smooth everything out, hue/saturation to give it a magical look, cropping, USM, and border. I probably messed with the curves multiple times, but all in all, there wasn't that much editing, considering how very edited it looks.
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fantastic idea, not sure about the choice of brush for the dodge of the top of the smoke but love the effect, would have preferred to see the jug a bit more to the centre but again, that's just me - love it (8)
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