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Fire Tutorial: The Fire Lord

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Made with Adobe CS2 and a Wacom Intuos3 6x11.

WARNING: LARGE FILE

But, then again I suppose you knew that considering you've already clicked on it. But for those of you who have the small-view on instead of large, beforewarned! It's large and in charge. And detailed. I got carried away.

Stock credits on image. :boogie:



Original image: [link]

To clear confusion, all fire you see in the picture came from pictures, not drawn in. I drew highlights, shadows, etc, but all flamage comes from actual pictures.


:bulletred::bulletred::bulletred: IMPORTANT:

I forgot to add this into the tutorial, but it's very important, and awesome in the way of time saving.

You do no cut the fire out.

Alright - the way I did it is having a darker BG, and the BG behind the fire is black (or very dark). Set the fire pic to "lighten" if you have PS, and viola! The BG fades away but the fire remains.

The only problem if you're working with a lighter BG is lighten doesn't make the BG disappear so much, so you're suck with how to cut the fire out, etc.


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This was done due to popular demand, and my extreme inability to say no.



Questions? Comments? Plop away and I'll be happy to help out.
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Tumbling-Star's avatar
Thank you, I've used your tutorial in this fire-manipulation [link]

Hope you like the result! :heart:

Please give your opinion :D
Cause you are the expert :star:

Thank you a lot! :D