Add a Dreamy or Misty Effect To Your Photos

May 3rd, 2007 · 47 Comments

4. On the same layer, enter quick mask mode by pressing ‘Q’. Go to filter>render>difference clouds and then hit ‘Q’ again to exit quick mask mode. Your picture should now have random shaped ‘dancing ants’ all over it.

5. Do not deselect yet. Select any decently large brush size, change the opacity to 90% and leave the flow at 100%. Brush the entire image, it should then look something like this: (you can deselect now by doing CTRL+D)

6. Duplicate the layer (CTRL+J), you should now have a total of 2 layers. Select the top layer simply by clicking it in the layers palette. Go to filter>blur>gaussian blur. Apply these settings:

This is what yours should look like:

7. Still working with the top layer, on the top left of the layers palette change the blending mode form normal to linear burn. You now should have a neat looking dreamy or misty scene!

8. You may press CTRL+E to merge the top layer down and then save or edit as you wish.

Get the final product: dreamy-scene-99.jpg

Tutorial Pages: 1 2

(7 votes, average: 5 Stars!)

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Tags: Photo Effects

47 responses so far ↓

1 Borne // May 24, 2007 at 10:17 am

very nice tut..love..it …
2 hi // May 25, 2007 at 6:48 pm

GREAT JOB
3 Mario_zd // Jun 11, 2007 at 5:47 am

At last…
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4 Mike // Jun 18, 2007 at 9:02 am

You should have stopped at the end of page one. :\
5 amp // Jun 30, 2007 at 12:02 pm

great directions really good
6 Fotograf Jörg Zimmermann // Jul 26, 2007 at 5:19 am

nice effect
7 ALBY // Sep 7, 2007 at 7:54 am

Weel done it’s cool!
8 Stasigr // Oct 29, 2007 at 4:17 am

Hello, very nice site, keep up good job!
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9 Stasigrii // Nov 4, 2007 at 9:07 am

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Very nice effect! Before this I only know to work from the top layer on but this is cool!
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35 Guest // Oct 18, 2008 at 7:49 pm

hey guys after i filter>render>difference and then i get out of quick mask mode nothing happens theres nothing on the picture why what do i do
36 Guest // Oct 18, 2008 at 7:52 pm

nvm i fix the problem
37 Yvette // Oct 25, 2008 at 4:20 pm

Thank’s for this tutorial.
There is a mistake at the b eginning. We must have black for the foreground and white for the background before applying the filter Distort / Diffuse glow.
38 Brian // Dec 18, 2008 at 9:18 pm

Great tutorial!! Love it!!!
39 Biju Subhash // Dec 19, 2008 at 8:05 am

Nice Tutorial
Thank You.

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40 Kimchi // Jan 25, 2009 at 2:02 pm

Step dose not work. (4. On the same layer, enter quick mask mode by pressing ‘Q’. Go to filter>render>difference clouds and then hit ‘Q’ again to exit quick mask mode. Your picture should now have random shaped ‘dancing ants’ all over it.)

I don’t get the ‘dancing ants’ after I exit quick mask mode
41 Seth // Feb 11, 2009 at 12:32 pm

I’ve been using Photoshop for ages, yet when I came this tutorial I got the same feeling as when I found out about the amasing ‘filters’ drop down back in the early days. Fantastic tutorial, and well worth promoting - I have added it to my Best Photoshop Tutorials of 2008 list here: http://www.kinocreative.co.uk/blog/?p=5
42 anton // Jul 2, 2009 at 9:57 am

i’ve tried it on my own landscape photo but the last part didn’t get that misty effect… it turned out too dark.
43 ana // Jul 25, 2009 at 11:17 pm

nice tutorial love the end result but after I do the Q and Exit Q i get the ants but the brush does not work for me !! But I wont give up Thanks again…
44 Sid // Oct 1, 2009 at 12:02 pm

Hey,
When I set my image level; the graining to 0,10 and 16 respectively, my image gets more dark rather than bright. Why is it so? I have tried it by adjusting but it gets more dark. What is it? Plz, do me a favor.
45 Sushie // Mar 23, 2010 at 12:55 pm

So beautiful! Thanks a lot for this tutorial!
46 Apartmani Soko Banja // Apr 22, 2010 at 4:52 pm

great tut. thnx
47 husna // Jun 12, 2010 at 1:12 pm

Thanks