Up-sizing smoke trails

[chauncey]

For the sake of argument, let's assume that I want to increase the size of these trails, that are
on layers, to 200% in PS CC.
I could select the layer and increase the size via Transform>Scale...or select them all and do the
same thing...or is there still a better way?

[Shadowman]

I think the transform method should do the trick.

By the way, I tried my first smoke capture and my admiration for your work has increased immensely.

[chauncey]

my admiration for your work has increased immensely.

You made me chuckle...I took a drunk old guy home the other day and all the way, I was accused
of being a GD nice guy. He lived in a half million dollar home...go figure.

[IzzieK]

+1 to John's comment...William...He is praising you and your work so say Thank You to him..

[chauncey]

John, Izzie is absolutely correct in that I was being entirely too flippant with my response...
quite often a bout of cerebral-mandibular dysrhythmia (foot-in-mouth disease) rears it's ugly head.
My humble apologies my friend.

Newest method that serves me well...prefocused 180 macro lens on Canon 1Ds3,
(1/250, 100 ISO, f/32)>camera is set about 3 ft. from incense stick, which is 3 ft. from black drape>
mirror is set one foot from stick which is two feet from opposite strobe (set to maximum power),
the mirror helps calm the smoke from room drafts as well as increase light.
For me, those settings give me close to ETTR, providing smoke is in focus, using a remote shutter
allows me to watch the smoke from behind the strobe, waiting until it's within DOF.

LR>WB usually set to daylight, Clarity 35, Sharpen 100, NR 40...
PS CC>all transform tools/liquify/selections (using combination of threshold layer and color range),
and whatever else is needed for whatever...

Again my apologies...

[Shadowman]

John, Izzie is absolutely correct in that I was being entirely too flippant with my response...
quite often a bout of cerebral-mandibular dysrhythmia (foot-in-mouth disease) rears it's ugly head.
My humble apologies my friend.

Newest method that serves me well...prefocused 180 macro lens on Canon 1Ds3,
(1/250, 100 ISO, f/32)>camera is set about 3 ft. from incense stick, which is 3 ft. from black drape>
mirror is set one foot from stick which is two feet from opposite strobe (set to maximum power),
the mirror helps calm the smoke from room drafts as well as increase light.
For me, those settings give me close to ETTR, providing smoke is in focus, using a remote shutter
allows me to watch the smoke from behind the strobe, waiting until it's within DOF.

LR>WB usually set to daylight, Clarity 35, Sharpen 100, NR 40...
PS CC>all transform tools/liquify/selections (using combination of threshold layer and color range),
and whatever else is needed for whatever...

Again my apologies...

William,

Apology accepted. Thanks for the setup information. My camera settings were slightly different (f/4.5, ISO 200, 1/125sec), camera flash set to 1/4 power. I tried settings similar to yours but first few attempts didn't show enough smoke or too much background. Also, I was using the SB-R200 flash with a sheet of cardboard wrapped around the flash head to prevent light leak onto the background. The capture was slightly successful, the outcome not so inspiring.