5K+ Textures for Creating Smoke Backgrounds

Most designers and photographers make use of smoke backgrounds to achieve powerful and dramatic effect in their photographs or designs. For example, we usually see smoke in many fantasy 3D wallpapers. Digital smoke in combination with lighting effects also creates a stunning piece of art.

In this post, we are going to list down links to more than 5000 smoke backgrounds that you can use to create dramatic effects in your designs. Most of these resources carry a Creative Common License and therefore free for personal use under certain conditions laid down by each author while some are available for both personal and commercial uses. Creative Commons License contents are those you can modify, adapt, or build upon but you have to attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).

SMOKE BACKGROUNDS AND TEXTURE PACKS

Below are links to thousands of smoke backgrounds that you can download for free. The first set is composed of textures packs while the second part consists of single smoke backgrounds and textures. To get the smoke backgrounds that you want, simply click on the low-res preview image and it will take you to a new page where you can get the highest possible resolution.

I. SMOKE BACKGROUNDS TEXTURE PACKS

4 Silky Smoke Background Textures
These are actually photos of the smoke from incense.

6 Smokey Textures by DeviantArt user Cloaks
These are photos of clouds of smoke in different hues and textures.

5 Smoke Textures by Bittbox
These are very high-res smoke background textures of smoke that Bittbox is giving away as a tribute to the new US President who is a smoker.

9 Smoke/Humo Set
Here are some colorful smoke textures in various color schemes and forms.

14 Artistic Smoke Set with Creative Commons License

40 Smoke Set with Creative Commons License

12 Smoke Set with Creative Commons License

85 Art Smoke Set with Creative Commons License

4 Smoke Set

40 Smoke Set

5,000+ Smoke Textures

Check out the individual licenses of these textures before using them as some of them might be copyrighted.)

Smoke Pack – 75 Free Images

This smoke pack has 75 high-resolution images of smoke on a solid black background. Add a gradient layer over the smoke and change the layers blending mode in Photoshop for a nice touch. You can also rotate and invert the layer to get a mystic look. All the images are around 2000 x 3000 pixels.

II. SINGLE SMOKE BACKGROUNDS

To download the textures that you want, just click on the preview image and it will take you to the page where you can get the high-resolution version.