5K+ Textures for Creating Smoke Backgrounds

Most designers and photographers make use of smoke 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 create stunning piece of art. In this post, we are going to list down links to more than 5000 smoke textures that you can use to create dramatic smoke backgrounds. 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. A Creative Commons License content 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).

IMPORTANT: 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.

SMOKE BACKGROUNDS AND TEXTURE PACKS

4 Silky Smoke Background Textures by Lost and Taken. These are actually photos of smoke from incense.

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

5 Smoke Textures by Bittbox
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 by Rolando Polo (With Creative Commons License)
Some colorful smoke textures in various color schemes and forms.

14 Artistic Smoke Set by turbojoe (away) (With Creative Commons License)

40 Smoke Set by Steve Wampler (With Creative Commons License)

12 Smoke Set by Flickr user Pascalbovet.com (With Creative Commons License)

85 Art Smoke Set by Vanessa Pike-Russell (With Creative Commons License)

4 Smoke Set by *owen (With Creative Commons License)

40 Smoke Set by Steve Wampler (With Creative Commons License)

5,000+ Smoke Textures from Smoke Art Flickr Group (IMPORTANT! Check out the individual licenses of these textures before using them as some of them might be copyrighted.)

INDIVIDUAL TEXTURES WITH Creative Commons License from Flickr

Smoke Art -II by neilbetter

Dark Lord Smoke Art by Beat_:)

Smoke Wallpaper #4 by robbie

Blue smoke cross infinity background wallpaper texture by David Gunter

Greatest Sincerity by Spencer Finnley

Match Smoke by Amagill

Up in Smoke by Oliver Lavery

Smoke 6 Colours by aubergene

Water Smoke by terriseesthings

Smoke by turbojoe (away)

Incense smoke against a black sky by Vanessa Pike_Russell

Smoke Art – 1 by neilbetter

Drift Smoke by Shockmotion

Hue Colored Smoke by turbojoe(away)

Smoke Braids by Steve Wampler

Smoke Photography by shutterclicks

No smoking by  Oliver Lavery

Smoke by tanakawho

Smoking in Bed by lightbrigade

Inverted Smoke by tysonjosey

Smoke in Color by Ambient Ideas

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