Photographing Incense Smoke Tutorial – Part 3 – Rainbow Smoke
Here is the final installment of the ‘Photographing Incense Smoke’ tutorial series. To see how to actually photograph the smoke, see Part 1 or if you want to see the single color post processing technique, see Part 2. This one is just a slight departure from Part 2, where we post processed the smoke to give it some great color. Well, in this one, we’re going to make the smoke multi-colored.
First, load up your smoke picture into photoshop and adjust the brightness, if you need to, as described in Part 2.
Load up your photo
Simply select Layer>New Fill Layer>Gradient.
New Gradient Fill Layer
In the New Layer dialog, in the mode drop down, select Color and click Ok.
Color Mode
In the Gradient Editor dialog, select the Gradient Preset that you like and click Ok.
Select the Gradient Pattern
That’s it! There’s nothing to it. Enjoy!
There ya go!
The Final Product
Tags: incense smoke, Photo, Photography, Photoshop, Picture, smoke, tutorial
September 19th, 2011 at 12:48 pm
Enjoyed the entire sequence. Suggestion — two pieces of different kinds of incense next to each other so that they cross.
September 19th, 2011 at 5:03 pm
Brilliant idea! I may try that one soon!