 Hello everybody, welcome back to another Photoshop 2022 tutorial. In this one, I'm going to show you how to make your smoke transparent. What am I talking about? Let me show you. I'm just going to go into my finder. I'm going to go into my pictures. I've got some smoke here that I just downloaded off of the internet free. You'll notice that it's a .jpg. So it's not a PNG. It's a JPEG. And that's important because PNGs have a transparent or an alpha channel. JPEGs do not. So I've just dragged and dropped my smoke on top of a blue background that I created. And I'm just going to hit enter and presto. Now there's a bunch of tutorials on the internet showing you how to mask it and do all that other stuff. You don't need to do that. All you need to do is make sure you're clicked on the image that you dropped on there and you just go to layers make sure you know layers. We're just going to switch to blend mode. Watch what happens when I go down to lighten or when I go to screen. These are the two that matters. Screen keeps a little bit of the blueish background in there. Lighten makes it pretty much all white with a little bit of black on the edges depending on the look you're going for. For this one I'm going to go ahead with screen and presto. We've got smoke with the transparent background. I'm going to go ahead and make it a little bigger and I'll drop it down to say somewhere around here. And presto that is all you need to know in almost all cases. Find a bit of smoke on the internet just a JPEG or any image will do change the background change the blending mode that's it guys thanks for watching ton more stuff coming up stay tuned