{"id":6910,"date":"2020-05-24T14:48:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T13:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=6910"},"modified":"2025-08-25T16:13:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:13:50","slug":"smoke-photography-almost-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=6910","title":{"rendered":"Smoke Photography (almost) LIVE!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>About 10 years ago I made a video all about photographing smoke patterns. Dig around on YouTube and you&#8217;ll find it but a lot has changed in that time and I don&#8217;t just mean how grey my hair has gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I felt it was time to revisit photographing smoke patterns and Olympus UK were kind enough to host the live shoot on their Facebook page. If you missed it live, you can catch the whole thing here<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FOlympusUK%2Fvideos%2F234269041204857%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of the demo I made a triptych from three smoke images. To save time I created a Photoshop action which automated the process down to one single click. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the demo I&#8217;ve had many requests for the triptych action, so here it is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To action assumes a few things. First it will make the triptych from three images that are already open in Photoshop. Next it assumes they&#8217;re the newest images you have on screen. Finally, all the images need to be exactly  the same size and shape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Usage rules<\/strong>The Photoshop Action is copyright Gavin Hoey 2020. Use is strictly limited to any personal but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehelpful.com\/creativecommons\/what-is-commercial-use.html\">non-commercial&nbsp;<\/a>purposes.&nbsp;<br>Please share the action by linking back to this page. Do not redistribute the original action without my permission.<br>No technical support is provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Download instructions<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a01. Click on the correct download link below\u00a0<em>(no sign up is needed)<br><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/11bJ2fcJsmuDYB4sKGTAv6trw1ozW0oqs\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/11bJ2fcJsmuDYB4sKGTAv6trw1ozW0oqs<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Click the&nbsp;<strong>Download&nbsp;<\/strong>icon&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/download_icon.png\" alt=\"download_icon\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\"><\/li><li>The download should start automatically<\/li><li>Unzip the download and install the Photoshop Action<\/li><li>No support is provided with the Photoshop action.<\/li><li>If you need help <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\">Google&nbsp;<\/a>or&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">YouTube&nbsp;<\/a>the question and you\u2019ll almost certainly find the answer<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Oly-Smoke-triptych.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6913\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Oly-Smoke-triptych-640x390.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Oly-Smoke-triptych-640x390.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Oly-Smoke-triptych-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Oly-Smoke-triptych-200x122.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Oly-Smoke-triptych-768x468.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Oly-Smoke-triptych-625x381.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Oly-Smoke-triptych-180x110.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Oly-Smoke-triptych-960x586.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Oly-Smoke-triptych-350x214.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Oly-Smoke-triptych.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 10 years ago I made a video all about photographing smoke patterns. Dig around on YouTube and you&#8217;ll find it but a lot has changed in that time and I don&#8217;t just mean how grey my hair has gone. I felt it was time to revisit photographing smoke patterns and Olympus UK were kind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=6910\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smoke Photography (almost) LIVE!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,5],"tags":[23,35,289,24,105,216,3],"class_list":["post-6910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-freebie","category-videos","tag-featured","tag-friday-freebie-2","tag-live-stream","tag-spotlight","tag-triptych","tag-tutorial","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6910"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6915,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6910\/revisions\/6915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}