1. Create black background.

2. Create New Layer and draw white lines to define shape.

3. Give it a Gaussian Blur (just blur it so that it’s nice and soft and you can still kind of see the strokes).

4. Filter\Other\Maximum to give it some shape for the center of the smoke lines

5. Duplicate the smoke Edit\Transform\Warp and Warp it a little to make it look more natural.

6. Apply a Twirl filter Filter\Distort\Twirl.

7. Adjust the opacity and you should have your smoke.

1. Go to File\Scripts\Load Files into Stacks… (This option will add all your image in as one file with separate layers).
2. Add all your images that you want in the animation.
3. Open the Animation Palette from Window\Animation
4. Click on the Flyout Menu on top right corner of the animation window and select Make Frames from Layers
5. Adjust the timing of each frame by selecting the 0 sec. on the frame

To save as animated Gif
Go to File\Save For Web & Devices Choose your Image Settings and Looping Options
Click Save.

To save as a Movie for Flv, IPhone, IPod, Quick Time, MPEG4 and so on
Go to File\Export\Render Video Choose your Settings.
Click Save.

So after an hour of pulling my hair out wondering why my image won’t display on my categories page. My theme had set my Categories or Archive page to display in summery mode. To change this or any of your page from summery mode back to a regular post. You have to find the code.
“the_excerpt” change to “the_content” to display the full article.

In my case I found it in the “archive.php”