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Published: 2008-05-13 17:19:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 41465; Favourites: 811; Downloads: 1203
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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.
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.
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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Comments: 160
Thanks for the tutorial, and I'll remember Ctrl+T! You need to come out with a manipulating- horses one, it'd really help!
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I'll have to do that!
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Teehee, I hope it helps.
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i love you. O_O i'm trying this once school finally let's us out of its prison. i think several hours slaving away at cs2 wouldn't hurt. :D
thanks for putting it up; i've been dying to work with fire for a long time now and i can finally have some aid in the battle against flame! whoo!
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it was useful to me in the horrid creationg of this.
[link]
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Your work just is just simply amazing, and I think The Fire Lord is the best yet. But I just can't believe how much work really went into this picture.
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Thank you so much, I'm honestly glad to hear you like it that much.
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Seriously, that is one of the best tutorials I've seen! And I loved all the details that I didn't see in the original fire lord-picture, before I noticed them here.
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Aw thanks so much honey. 
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I like details, just never patient enough to do them myself
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you've inspired me to create a fiery manip!
great tutorial! I love the words you used like the vavavoom
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Oolala, good luck on it!
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Thanks. I work with GIMP and I don't have a freetransform box 0.O
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Wow.
I've always wanted to learn how to do this... but... its just a bit too confusing for me
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I'm sorry. Anything in particular?
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i love you so much for this <3
I'm having real trouble cutting out the fire..do you use an eraser? soft or not? or a lasso tool?
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The great part about that is you don't cut it out - I forgot to add that to the tutorial.
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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oooooo, thanks or the advice <3
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Absolutely fabulous tutorial. 
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(New info added to the "Artist's Comments" box - I forgot to put it into the tutorial.)
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LOL, well thank you so much! 
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I'm actually working on a manip with fire in it now, so this is helping a lot. Thanks so much!
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(New info added to the "Artist's Comments" box - I forgot to put it into the tutorial.)
Good luck with the manip! I'd love to see it when it's done.
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Anytime sweetie!
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...Wow.
You are -ingenius- at Photo manipulations. I might try adding fire to one of my pictures.
Maybe not, I'd probably screw it up. XD
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(New info added to the "Artist's Comments" box - I forgot to put it into the tutorial.)
Aww don't say that! I'm a firm believer that you can do it if you want it to be done - at least in PS, where pretty much anything is possible. If you try once and fail, you know what not to do next time.
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Thanks so much for this!
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They're pains in the asses!
(New info added to the "Artist's Comments" box - I forgot to put it into the tutorial.)
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This tutorial inspired this! [link] Thank you so much!
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(New info added to the "Artist's Comments" box - I forgot to put it into the tutorial.)
Thats awesome - very inspirational! 
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