[Nicole]

Same picture as the original one in this post, but after the comments about the white ones, I reworked it to have a white background.



The only difference in the post-processing was that I inverted the smoke layer so that it had a white background (which also required a few more touchups with the paint brush to get rid of a few areas that showed up more when I changed it to white). I found that you have to make the whites stronger in the original smoke to get good results when you invert the picture. I did more adjustments in the levels, but also used the fill light function in ACR to brighten the smoke a bit.