Once the smoke image has been color corrected, the next step is adjust exposure. You’ll have colors that don’t match and more, and will make it difficult to blend, so always set a neutral temperature. If you add color, sharpening, or any other stylistic adjustment to the smoke at this point, it won’t be neutral enough to work in any image. Keep in mind the goal is to have your final result be a very neutral smoke texture that be dropped into any type of image, at which point you can make the preferable and necessary adjustments to blend seamlessly into that photo. With your smoke texture image loaded into, and selected in Lightroom, the first thing to be done is to correct any color shift, and get to the most neutral color possible.
If, however, you are using the SLR Lounge Smoke Texture Pack, all 400 images are ready to go, and you can drop any of them into any image. So, the idea is to neutralize the color, fix the Blacks and Highlight toning, then do some basic ‘painting’ to remove all the other unwanted artifacts. If the background is anything other than black, it will not become completely transparent, and the background area would essentially have to be masked out. This allows for a clean smoke texture that can be moved around and manipulated cleanly, precisely, and easily. The reason this is done is so that when the Screen blending mode is selected in Photoshop, the negative space goes completely transparent. The whole goal with preparing a texture for later compositing is to neutralize the texture as best as possible, to make the blacks completely black, and to get all the junk out of the image. In this video, we’re going to show you 3 simple steps on how to RAW process that smoke texture to be able to drop it into any image, and get a really nice, clean smoke texture, that you can then use to blend and make a realistic smoke look. Part one was 10 Tips On How To Photograph Smoke & Fog, where you learned how to light, shape, and photograph smoke texture. Recently, we shared with you the first in a series of posts to further your understanding and implementation of smoke into your images.
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