


Now, fill it with the black background color using the bucket fill tool. We are creating an image with the above image properties. It will ask for the image properties, define the image properties and click OK to create. To create an image, select the New option from the File menu or hit the CTRL+N keys. We can add the smoke effect using the brushes and other tools.įollow the below steps to add the smoke effect: How to Add Smoke Effect on an ImageĪdding a smoke effect to a photo is a tricky process. Let's understand how to add smoke effects to photos using GIMP. For this tutorial, we are going to use 20 smoke PS brushes. If the brushes dockable dialog is not visible on your screen, display it from the Windows-> Dockable Dialog-> Brushes or hit the " CTRL+SHIFT+B" keys. After adding the brush file, refresh the brushes from the brush dialog window by clicking on the below icon: Now, navigate to this path and paste the downloaded file here. It will display the default location of the Brush folder. To access the default folder in GIMP, navigate to Edit-> Preferences-> Folders-> Brushes menu. To add the brush in GIMP, paste the file in GIMP's default Brushes folder, which will be probably "GIMP 2 > share > gimp > 2.0 > brushes" in Windows and for Linux, it should be " /home/alien/snap/gimp/297/.config/GIMP/2.10/ brushes" something like this. We can choose a range of brushes from the above resources after downloading the brush file, extract it and add it to GIMP's default folder. Some popular resources for downloading the smoke brushes are as follows: We can download different types of smoke brushes from these resources. To download the smoke brushes, search on Google for GIMP Smoke Brushes, and you'll find various external sources for downloading the brushes. How to Download & Install the Smoke Brushes The brushes can be download from various web resources.īefore diving into the topic, let's understand how to download and install smoke brushes in GIMP. In this section, we will apply the smoke effect to our image using some smoke brushes. The smoke effect is an editing effect that provides the scene of smoke around our original image. We can create an image pattern to paint it over the image. It also supports patterns, which is also a useful tool for GIMP. We can extend GIMP's functionality using the brushes and plug-ins. We can apply all these effects by using some external plug-ins and brushes. GIMP is an advanced photo editor tool that facilitates several advanced editing effects such as smoke effect, cartoon effect, animation effects, etc.
