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Flame effect tutorials abound on the internet, but most of them are quite
fiddly, complex, take forever, and/or are ideally
optimized for text.
You can, however, break the mould with this simple tutorial that takes under 10
minutes to complete and can be applied to anything. And hey... the results
look pretty darned realistic too! ;)
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Step 1:
Open up a stock image in Photoshop of any size and/or format. In this
example I have chosen a scene from the rather addictive physics-based
mini-game, Truck Dismount. |
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2: Create a new layer on top of your background stock layer, make
it active in the layers palette, rename it 'flames' and, using a soft
appropriately-sized tip on the Brush Tool, paint a solid white color over
the general area that you want to be on fire. You don't need to spend too
long at this stage, as you will be altering this layer greatly in the next
step. |
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3: Now to add some shape to our fire! Using your favourite smudge
tool (mine is Oil Medium wet flow, as found near the bottom of the smudge
brush tip list) smudge your fire up and give it a little squiggle as you
go. Do this until you get the proper shape. Also, ensure that the smudge
strength is set to 75%. Take your time at this stage and
you should eventually end up with something that resembles my image on the
left. |
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4: Time to add a little color! Select Layer > New Adjustment Layer >
Color Balance from the main menu and duplicate these settings in the
dialog box:
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Press OK, and this window should pop up:
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Select
the Highlights radio button (its towards the bottom of the window, in
the Tone Balance section) and, whilst it is selected, push the Red
slider to it's highest setting, adding a little Yellow for better
color balance. Repeat this procedure, but the Shadows radio
button highlighted instead, and dragging the Yellow all the way to
the left. With the midtones, just drag the Red all the way to
the right and leave the Yellow alone. You should now have an image
resembling my example on the left. |
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5: We don't, of course, want the whole picture to be red, so we can fix
this by holding down CTRL on the keyboard and left-clicking the little
thumbnail to the left of the flames layer with the mouse. This
will select everything in the layer. After doing this, just reverse
the selection with Select > Inverse from the main menu, select the
adjustment layer in the layers palette, and Edit > Fill your
selection with a solid black color. Lose your selection and Viola -
You now have some awesome and easily created fire!
This tutorial was written by Andantonius, if you have any questions
or comments feel free to contact him
via the BioRUST
forums, where you can e-mail or send him a private message.
Have fun setting things on fire! |
- Tutorial written by Andantonius
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This is so quick and simple I don't know how i didn't figure it out myself. excelletnly described method and leaves it open to your own persoanl interpretation. |
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This is the thumbnail you click to the left of the picture.

And, you click the New Layer icon to "Create a new layer on top of your background stock layer, make it active in the layers palette, rename it 'flames'.".

P.S. Sorry I didn't reply sooner, this tutorial's a bit old and I don't check it incredibly often.
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