Managing Foggy Stuff

Smoke and Cloud exercise
This piece of work is in-class practice of Photoshop.
The main goal was to obtain smoky image and select it properly to make use of it.

First, you have to find good pictures of smoke. Black or white background is preferable for operational convenience.
Also, You can change the color of smoke, if you want.

Second, you need to select smoke. To do this, Adjust black and white level. Then, convert the smoke image into CMYK mode.
In CMYK mode, you can select black from Channel pane by Ctri + clicking black channel’s sumnail.. If you don’t like the selection, undo until your level adjustment.

Finally, if you like your black color selection, delete it. Then, invert selection to the smoke, so that you can copy it and use it anywhere you want.

You can also apply this method to fog and cloud as well. Enjoy your designing!