Posted on December 05th, 2006 05:34 PM by Matt

Making Flames
Difficulty: Intermediate
Type: photoshop
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Unfortunately as im rubbish at any kind of art, these flames could be made better with more detail in the smudging but yeh, you'll learn the basics here!

Firstly, open a new document and make the background black (so the flames are easier to see).

 Then insert a new layer. Here select a brush and lower the hardness to around 50%, draw a random white blob on the layer:

Go to the tools menu on the left and select the smudge tool

now begin to mess around with smudging the white blob until it begins to show the resemblance to a white fire (hint use different thicknesses and hardnesses of brushes to get a better effect).

Now go to layer > New adjustment Layer > Color Balance

 now make sure the "highlights" box is selecte, and mess around with the settings, i find pushing the scroll bar to 100% red and 100% yellow works best here

Now select the "shadows box" and play around with the settings, i advise using this:

Voila!  Now you have your flames! enjoy!!

Source1 - 6613fire.psd (right-click > "save target as" to download)

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