The first will be made using an image of actual smoke, while the second will be created and painted by hand! No painting skills are required. Luckily, they are not only easy to use, but also incredibly easy to create! We’ll be creating two different smoke brushes in this smoke brush Photoshop tutorial. This is a set of free smoke Photoshop brushes that you can download and install in Photoshop.Adding smoke to an image is a great way to add both atmosphere and drama. Just make sure to set the blend mode to Color or Hard Light. You can color the smoke brushes by adding Inner and Out Glow Layers styles to them. If you want white or colored smoke, choose white as your color. Use the Open bracket, or “[” key to decrease the size of your brush to fit your project. They will automatically be as large as they can possible be. You can append your current brushes, meaning you just add them to the end of your currently active brushes. In the Brushes Panel, you can load them my clicking the flyout menu and selecting Load Brushes. To install these Photoshop brushes, download this file. If you want to share these brushes, please link to this post. The only thing you can’t do with them is redistribute them or sell them to others. You may use these free Photoshop brushes in personal and commercial design projects. The file size is 30MB, so it make take a minute or two to download.

They are high resolution and were created in the latest version of Photoshop CC 2014. I hope you enjoy these free smoke Photoshop brushes. You can preview all 20 free smoke Photoshop Brushes below.

These are all high resolution, and you can layer them to create smoke effects in your design work. This week, I put together a collection of 20 free smoke Photoshop brushes you can download. If you remember a few weeks back, I created free high resolution fire and cloud brushes for Photoshop.

Smoke effect brush photoshop