{"id":5920,"date":"2017-08-04T10:51:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T09:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=5920"},"modified":"2017-08-04T10:51:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T09:51:53","slug":"free-smoke-textures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=5920","title":{"rendered":"Free Smoke Textures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I’ve run a couple of workshops that used smoke effects, the Music and Magic workshop<\/a> was a great example. During the workshops I’ve mentioned that the volume of smoke can easily be enhanced with a little help from Photoshop. All you need is a shot of smoke against a black background and you’re good to go. Of course there’s smoke and then there’s smoke, so what you actually need is a library of various smoke patterns in order to match it to your scene.<\/p>\n

To kick off your smoke collection I’m sharing 6 of my smoke shots as a Friday Freebie.\u00a0You can download them from here:
\nhttps:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0B_Mmmm3K1utNam9wUk9yUFpVdEk<\/a><\/strong>
\nPlease read the usage rules\u00a0below.<\/p>\n

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How To Add Smoke<\/strong><\/span>
\nThere’s a several ways to use my smoke textures but first you need to download and unzip them. In Photoshop simply open a smoke image and select it (CTRL+A). Then copy it (CTRL+C) and go to the image that needs smoke and paste it in (CTRL+V). To blend the smoke into the photo go to the Layers Panel and change the Layer Blending mode from Normal to Screen<\/em>. Of course it’s unlikely that the smoke will be in the right place or even the right size, so press CTRL+T and use the Free Transform handles to resize the smoke and then drag it around as you need.<\/p>\n

How you use the smoke in your photography is up to you but you. It can be used as realistic smoke by following the advice above or it can be more mist like by lowering the opacity and applying some Gaussian Blur. Alternatively you could add it to the whole image and use it as a texture, may be add some colour with CTRL+U (Hue\/Saturation) or try different blending modes for interesting and unexpected results.<\/p>\n