Realistic Fog

This tutorial will teach you how to create Realistic fog, and how to apply it on any picture.

Step 1

Open any picture on which you want to add a fog.





Step 2

Create a new layer and name it fog.

Step 3

Take the Brush Tool (B), set its size to 50px, under Mode choose Disolve and set Opacity to 50%. See the picture below.



Under Foreground color choose some grey tone, try to get fog color :),  and start paint the part of picture which you want to be fog.



Step 4

Select the fog layer and click on Filter > Blur > Guassian Blur. Then in Guassian Blur panel under Radius set 20px. See the picture below.



Your picture now looks like this:



Step 5

Select the fog layer again, and click on "Add layer mask" icon in layers palette. Look at the picture below!



Step 6

Take the Gradient Tool (G), and in Gradient Editor set Black and White color.





Step 7

Drag the Gradient Tool from top - to the picture, to create a gradinet to the sky and remove the fog on the top.

Finally, our work looks like this:



We're done!

Have a nice day!