Shards

My search for a tutorial that produced realistic flames was in vain. The most convincing attempt at recreating fire was using 3D programs which rendered particles. Most other Photoshop tutorial of fire are just not convincing enough. This tutorial will help you bring fire and flames to your images in more amazing ways than you can imagine.

Presenting:



Create fire through Brushes

These are the fire brushes that I have developed. Brushes are simply images of something that you paint onto your canvas.

1. First download this set of brushes to your desktop: HERE

2. Go to Photoshop and go to your Brush Pallet. Click on the small arrow to the right of the pallete and go to 'Load Brushes':



3. Find the brush that you just downloaded and hit 'load'.

4. Now you have the fire brush!

5. Make a new file 1000px by 1000px. Fill it with black (Alt+backspace). Make a new layer. Make your brush white and click on the canvas.

6. Now go to Colour Balance and put in these values:




7. There you have it fire. (I am sort of colour blind, so use your own eyesight to create the exact colour that you want).



Some Quick Examples of what to do with your FIRE

I decided to test the fire out in a few different scenarios, a bit more time would have made them look more finished, but I'll leave that job up to you.



Comments: You can make your own text by simply brushing over white text and using gradiants to merge them together!



My Comments: Tank shooting and other gunfire. I decided to go for the dramatic rather than too much realism.



My Comments: A stealth fighter destroys sleek modernist house. Enjoy the power of blowing up things with these brushes. Several brushes are great to make exploding effects!



My Comments: Sub Zero with fireball. I just liked the irony of it all.

Final

Be creative with these new toys. Please feel free to post results.

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Haha, nice work .

I'll download them as soon as I have the chance :-p.

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eth

One word: marvellous.

I haven't tested the brushes yet, but the preview is enough to prove their complete awesomeness. I have a few fire brushes, but none of them are as detailed as yours. Good stuff mate, good stuff.

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Nesuke

I used some of the brushes to aid the effect with the render. I think this is close to my best work...

Shards

Nesuke, work like that ^ makes me glad to have made those brushes. Niceone.

Thanks for the comments everyone, appreciate it.

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RazoR_

I think you'd get a better / more realistic result using a gradient map layer instead of with color balance. Could be just my personal opinion though, but I find it easier to work with too.



Back in the days I was thinking about trying to animate fire in photoshop realistically... these brushes will come in handy when I decide to go through with it . Thx

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Shards

Thats actually a better route because it gives you more freedom on how to manip the brushes to your image. Eg: having the gradient with brightest at the bottom of an explosion is much more realistic rather than a wholeistic wash of yellow that is produced from colour balance. Perhaps using a combination of colour balance and gradiant maps could also produce some good results...plus at least with the colour balance you can brush grey into the mask to create any hue variations. And then you have the gradient overlaying that. I might try that in an explosion tutorial I am planning, prolly would look good. Thx for your comment.

That would rock man. Would it be similar to the effect in your transition tutorial (and your current sig)?

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Nesuke

Thanks for the comments on my banner shards! I've just taken another look at it after doing more work since and I thought... Nah, it was better than that...

I guess what's fresh in your mind looks good at the time, then when it runs stale, you go off it.

RazoR_

It's still far from what I hope to achieve eventually but you get the idea... animated fire so far

I'd still need to have the upper layer scale down to shrink to the middle by the end of the animation, just a little short on time etc at the moment.

*edit* I just watched it myself again, and I can't stress enough how much work I'll still need to do on this to reach the effect I want !

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LoseR

What you have now looks pretty amazing. I know how to do simple animations, but I can honestly say I have no idea how I would even attempt something like what you are doing.