Here is a before and after look of our image to better appreciate the effect. Your final artwork should look similar to the image below. This will darken the background image a bit.įinally, to enhance the overall look of your image, create a new Brightness/Contrast Adjustment Layer on top of everything. Go back into the Adjustments panel and create a new Color Lookup Adjustment Layer on top of it.Ĭhoose FoggyNight.3DL as the 3DLUTFile and lower the Opacity to about 50%. Make sure the background layer is selected. We will use some adjustment layers on the background image to make the fog look more realistic.
Leave the Mid Point (greys) at 1.0 and move the White Point lever on the right to 219. In the Properties panel, select the Black Point lever on the left and move it to the right to about 30. Do this by clicking on the small button at the bottom of the Adjustments panel.
First, go to the Adjustments panel and create a new Levels Adjustment Layer on top of the overlay layer.Ĭlip the layer so it will only affect the layer exactly underneath. If your overlay image contained a black background an adjustment layer can add more depth to the fog. In our case, we left the opacity at 100%. Select the overlay layer, change its Blending Mode to Screen and lower the Opacity if needed. If that’s the case, you will need to blend it into the background image to get rid of the unwanted dark portions.
Occasionally overlay images have a black background (not transparent). Step 2 - Change the fog overlay Blending Mode When you are done, hit Enter or click the checkmark icon on the top menu to commit the changes. Resize and/or rotate by using Free Transform (Command/Control + T). If the photo is too small or too big you can adjust the size. Bring in the Fog overlay images by dragging from their thumbnail onto the one you are using as a background. Once in Photoshop, open the images you chose to work with. In this example, we will add fog to a city sidewalk photo using a fog overlay for Photoshop to add the desired effect. They are then placed on top of the original photograph and blended in. Many overlays have a transparent or black background. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a fog overlay in Photoshop. By using blending modes and adjustment layers, you can transform a daylight scene into a foggy afternoon. We use overlays to insert new elements into photos or projects that were not there before. Overlays are images or textures placed on an additional layer.
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