

You've just created three basic shapes of fog. Go to Filter > Gaussian Blur and set the Radius to 50 Pixels. Press Enter on your keyboard after you're done to apply the changes. Grab the Forward Warp Tool and liquify the layer as shown below. Go to Edit > Free Transform and transform the WISPS OF FOG layer as shown below. Make the FOG, THICK FOG and GENTLE MIST layers invisible. Right-click on the FOG layer and select Duplicate layer. Look at the image below to see where you should paint. Pick a black color and paint over some parts of the mist which are too thick. Select a soft round brush and lower its Opacity to 30%. Press Enter on your keyboard after you're done to apply changes. Go to Edit > Free Transform and transform the layer as shown below. Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and set the Radius to 80 Pixels. Make the FOG and THICK FOG layers invisible. After you're done press Enter on your keyboard to apply the changes. Go to Edit > Transform > Perspective and set the perspective as shown below. Name the new layer THICK FOG.Ĭlick on the THICK FOG layer and lower its Opacity to 40%. We'll focus on creating the following three effects:

In this tutorial we'll cover three essential variations. Now it's time to have some fun! You can create as many variations of fog as you'd like. Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and set the Radius to 30 pixels. To make this base texture more realistic you need to blur it a little. Go to Select > Deselect to deactivate the selection. Go to Filter > Render > Clouds to render the base texture for your fog brushes. Set black as your foreground color and white as your background color. Press OK.īecause of this step you'll have smooth transitions between the fog and the rest of the image. Go to Select > Modify > Feather and set the Feather Radius to 500 pixels. Grab the Elliptical Marquee Tool (M) and select the circle in the middle of the image. Grab the Paint Bucket Tool (G) and fill this new layer with solid black color as well. (If you don't see this panel go to Window > Layers.)ĭouble-click on the layer you've just created and name it FOG. You can find the button Create a new layer in the bottom part of Layers panel. Step 3Ĭreate a new empty layer above BACKGROUND. Grab the Paint Bucket Tool (G) and pick black ( #000000).

Set its Width and Height to 5000 px and press OK. In this tutorial you will learn how you can easily create your own mist brushes using different filters and transformations.Ĭreate a new document in Photoshop.
