Adobe Smoke

[Rashawn Devegowda]

Iencountered a bit of a hiccup when trying to download them. Despite being a licensed user with the Adobe Photography Plan and Adobe Express monthly, every attempt led me to a plan package page. I've reached out to the Adobe staff, and they mentioned looking into it, promising to get back to me later.

I found them! There's a search field in the Brushes panel. I searched for "fog" but didn't find anything. I went back to -brushes/smoke.html and at the bottom of the page, it says, "Create a smoke brush pack." Then I searched my brushes for "smoke."

This discussion piqued my interest enough to try checking out the brushes Joshyi3 was trying to download. Suffice to say, it was a mess. After much mucking around ... including returing here at least a couple of times, I did manage to download what I think may be the correct brush pack. Adobe could do a better job with this I think. Anyway, once downloaded and double clicked, the file promptly opened Affinity Photo and asked if I wanted to install these bushes in that program. An info check of the downloaded file did indeed show Affinity Photo as the default app and I then noticed that the file itself had an Affinity Publisher icon on it.

I did manage to change the file assocation to Photoshop in Finder although the file icon remains unchanged for some reason. I'm wondering now if this is the expected action with Adobe brush files. Seems weird that Affinity could/would hijack a file assocation like that. I've never given any Affinity apps that permission. In fact, I rarely use them at all.

The Kyle Webster brushes (and other downloadable brushes) are saved as the ABR file format which was created for Adobe Photoshop. If Affinity can use ABR files and you have Affinity, then it's possible that the file associations could default to it instead of Photoshop.

Well, that was the funny thing... the downloaded brushes did have the correct (Adobe Photoshop) filespec, but still showed an Affinity icon, which I failed to notice before double clicking on it. Shame on me.

I ask "How do you REALLY do a smoke overlay" -- with an emphasis on "REALLY" -- because the online information on this topic is very confusing to me. Everybody tells you to go to YouTube to get free smoke overlays, as if that's the easiest thing in the world, and yet I see no way to download these videos on YouTube except by using a ten-step process with a program called VLC, a procedure which appears to be in violation of the YouTube service agreement that everyone technically agrees to when using YouTube. There are a few other herky-jerky methods, but they also seem to violate YouTube rules.

Altho' I'm a newbie, I think I've learned enough now to effectively use a smoke overlay once I have one, but can someone please tell me how to legally use some of these supposedly "free" overlays without violating YouTube policies? I'm sure I can buy a smoke overlay for about $100 from Adobe Stock or Shutterstock and be able to sleep well at night, but if there truly are "free" smoke overlays out there, no strings attached, I'd like to be able to take advantage of them in a generally acceptable way.

Let's get a few of those sexy curves into the smoke. Make sure all 3 of your feathers are selected. Do this via the Select Tool (black arrow) or on the layers pallet.

Grab your Warp tool. in case you don't know where it is: This tool icon looks like a finger poking at a line (also shown selected in the image). Once the warp tool is activated, hold Alt, then Shift and move your mouse to adjust the brush size to be roughly 1/3 of the size of your feathers.

Once your brush size is set, click and hold on your mouse and run the warp tool over your feathers in a "Z" shape.

This will have pushed your smoke around, giving it the familiar bends of smoke.

@Sara Sultan in my experience the problem is that when redacting Adobe always requires you to save a new file which is redacted. Adobe cannot save new files to Smokeball directly - it can only save over files opened from Smokeball. What about using a binary to save to like for smokeball scan? Another idea would be to determine if Adobe has a setting that can be changed to save redactions to the original file.

Once you've settled on a photo of your own or downloaded the above photo, we're going to edit it using Photoshop. For this article, I'll be using CS5. Open Photoshop, navigate to the location of the image you will be editing, open it, and let's get started.

That's the basic workflow to process your smoke photography. There are, however, many changes you can make to it including skipping the invert process and leaving out the gradient all together. You may also want to apply some dodge/burn techniques to highlight certain areas. Get creative and experiment with the steps above to come up with your personal favorite. Post your results in the comments section below and be sure to include any tips you discover during your editing for others to try!

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I used to design for a vape company, so I had to add or create different smoke effects like smoky fonts, and cloud effects, etc for their promotional materials. I used to switch between Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator until I found ways to make smoke in Adobe Illustrator.

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