Photoshop Tutorials > Effects & Objects

Realistic Fire

1. Create a new document around 500X500. Set black as your background color and then select about a 9 pixel brush. Set white as your fore ground color. Now create a new layer and about 20 pixels from the bottom or so draw a straight white line. from left to right. Now take out your smudge tool and select about a 19 pixel hard round brush. Now using kinda wavy upstrokes. Brush across your line as if you were creating the flame shapes.



2.Now Press Ctrl+U and check the colorize box....set Hue: 38 and Saturation:60. Now start knocking down the lighting adjustments abit until you get a shade of orange. Now press ok and in your layers pallete duplicate your fire layer.

Now the next step is really personal preference. On your new layer set your blend mode to Either Linear Burn, Color Burn, Linear Light, Vivid Light, Overlay, Or Color Dodge. It really all depends on how hot you want your fire. Thats it!!