Creating smoke using the Xplosion brush set

In a previous post, I described how to add smoke to a picture using the Clouds from the filter menu. There is another way of adding smoke. I've downloaded these free brushes (download here) and will show you how to use them: 

Obviously, you'll first need to download the brushes. Then load the brushes into Photoshop. 

Now you'll find your brushes in your brush panel

I picked up a brush and changed the brush settings:

Shape dynamics:
- size jitter round 70%
- angle jitter round 100%

Transfer:
- opacity jitter around 70%

Now paint with white, on a new empty layer, where you want the smoke (make your brush bigger or smaller depending on the effect you're after).

Mask it out where you don't want smoke and reduce the opacity of the layer. You can combine it with the smoke from the clouds technique I described in the previous blogspot.

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