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arrsistable — Fire Tutorial: The Fire Lord
Published: 2008-05-13 17:19:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 41464; 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
BEYOND entertainment. ^_^ I enjoyed it and I learned a lot. Your little drawings and add ins kept my interest (oh, I am bad about losing it!) and got me through the entire tutorial unscathed. I learned a lot and think that some of it applies to stuff other than fire.
I don't know if I'll be trying this myself, but it won't stop me from enjoying the tutorial! Wonderful, wonderful stuff.
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LOL, I'm glad it wasn't boring for you. Who says learning can't be fun, right? 
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Now I know why I suck at making super manips.
I just don't care to spend a ton of time on all the details that make yours look so good. *lazy bum kthnx*
But I'll 
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Hey, you know what not to do next time when using fire. 
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Lol, but you *succeeded* and finished. XD I basically said, "Oh well, I'll go read a book."
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Thanks so much!
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I love your tutorials. I wait with bated breath for your "how to change the shape of a horse" tutorial. It would certainly be enough to inspire me to try my hand at photomanipulation!
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god this is amazing.
the detail and patience involved
the detail on the tail is gorgoues
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Why thank you honey!
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Another great tutorial. Adding it to my list of faves.
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Thank you so much babes!
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This is fantastic. Truly helpful toward anything sort of picture dealing with manipulating fire. 
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Of course cutie!
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You are such a doll.
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Ok, I have to start out by saying your stick men... they made me laaaaugh.
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LOL, I tried making it look like they were dancing, but I fail! And I didn't care enough to erase and attempt at even doing it a second time.
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Naw, they're sure jumping for joy all right! You conveyed that emotion quite nicely.
And ooh yes, what you added is definitely important to know! I'd probably end up hurting someone or something if I tried cutting all that fire out. *winces*
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Your tutorials actually make me laugh.
I'm in mad lust with the little stick men.
I love this like wow.
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Oh gods all the comments I could make but I won't for the sake of PG13..
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PG13 is the bane of my existence.
Good info. 
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HOLY CRAP. This helps soo much. I have tried numerous times to make fire manes/tail but it never works. I use PSP9 but this gives me some ideas on how to do it. Thanks soo Much for making this, it really helps.
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No problem sweetheart!
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I shall look at this when my internet connection doesn't make me want to commit suicide ^^ Thanks, Arrsis.
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Anytime honey!
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I shall try it sometime, yes yes I will! ^^
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This one is soooo great. You should know by now that I'm a fan of your artwork, and this will be quite helpful. Thanks for the tutorial, and keep up your work.
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LOL, I think outside of Piece of Heaven, Love Transcended is my most-stolen piece of work, so everyone likes your characters as well as your words that are on the top of the pic! 
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They'd be nothing without your imagination and work
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Faved for future reference! I think you have a nice approach of working with fire. IMO its one of the hardest things in photomanips.
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I don't know - I must have gotten lucky, because I didn't find fire to be hard to work with at all. Beginners luck? I think so.
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It'll take me a bit long time to translate every point of your your tutorial properly,but I'll do it because it'll be very useful I think...Thanks for it!!
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Good luck in getting it!
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Well, I think I'm not so patient to do something like that 
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Thanks so much honey, I'll try!
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This is fantastic and I am sure it will work for me, even though I am not as advanced as you. Then again, you know how I love fire effects.
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I hope it helps, even if a little bit!
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You will get credited when I use it and I think that will be soon, well as in this year anyway 
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Things with Josh are much better. He will never see perfectly again and can never be a cop because of everything, but he also doesn't let it get him down. He can see well enough to drive - he can see damn near as good as I do with my contacts in, and he without anything at all! But I'm a very blind person without them - my prescription in both eyes is -5.5. 
How are yours babe?
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Believe it or not I no longer wear glasses because I have what they call mono vision, each eye is strong in one direction so they work together for close up and far away. Like Josh, this is the best they will ever be.
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Thanks much honey
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your welcome!
Thankyou!
I know that i have made a horible reputation with me and studios, this is the one i hope will turn that all around!
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Honestly, I'm very out-of-the-loop as far as studios go. NSHC is the only one I ever do anything at, and anymore it's more me going in and seeing if anything interesting is happening. So any reputation of yours I might know about is only what I see on here, and I think you're just fabulous.
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ok, ill have a look!
NSHC is the only the only place i have seen you besides here.....that must be nice. lol
I left alot of places that I use to be.....
aw...thanks hun ^_^ you are too!
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BUT, that makes me like you more in that you're not too lazy to start your own studio and work at building it.
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