Smoke Picture

I took one of my pictures and I selected the background, then I inverted the selection and made a duplicate layer of the selected area. Then I went back to the first layer and filled it in black and desaturated the picture, then I used a filter to find the edges to give it a sketchy look. I raised the contrast then began adding the smoke brush strokes while adding more layers. On the final layer I made a gradient fill and then merged all of the layers together.