: How to get this noisy fog or skies effect with a gradient texture in Photoshop? I really wanted to get this kind of foggy sort of glowing texture, with also the noise. And it seems it got

@Kimberly620

There are several ways here im adding white noise pixels to the image below


Make a new layer called noise


Fill it with gray

Make s second layer above that scales the noise on top


put a gradient on this layer (put a linear gradient form black to white to estimate good values for the noise level)
Set mode of this layer to hard mix

Select the noise layer


Use filter-> noise > Add noise.... Or use a grunge texture
Set mode to monochrome
Set amount to 5-50%
Optional scale the noise layer to get bigger grained noise.

You can paint the noise density with a brush or any other graduated image in the hard mix layer
multiply this in over the rest of the artwork
Optional use a gradient map to colorize a copy of the gradient layer and multiply it a top of your stack.




Image 1: Very quickly (and badly) done example showing the outlined method. I did some slight burning on the black & white 1 layer to controll the lighness of the skin. Stock image from Faestock. Lot could be done to the image to make the effect better.

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