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Published: 2009-09-20 13:22:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 1311; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 27
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Here's a tutorial I slapped together on how I make fire!! Feel free to try it for yourself- it's a lot of fun! Let me know if it works for you!!The stuff on the bottom are a few experiments that I'm gonna post soon.... blah blah blah.
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HippieLlama. 2009.
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Awesome, thank you! I'd love to see what you come up with!
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Though I probably won't post it for a while, as I'm pretty busy at the moment
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I'm there with ya, don't worry.
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It's a clear and good tutorial that is both helpful and fun to read.
I tried making some fire before you released the tutorial. It didn't look nearly as fluid as the fire in your Catch Fire; looked far more aggressive. I still can't make fire look fluid (perhaps I should play with the opacity and try other brushes to smudge with?), but had even more fun after you made this tutorial. It's great! I didn't realise that adding white and blurring (smoothing) before smudging (warping) could be a good idea.
I love how giving of your knowledge doesn't consume it.
I think you've told me before, but refresh my memory; what programs do you use?
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Awesome, thanks!!
Yeah, the white really makes the colors all... pop more. It's sweet. And playing around with the opacity might help, yes- also weaving "strands" of fire through each other helps too. You can also try making mini blobs of fire separate from the main flames, or sparks (which are little blobs of orange on red on dark red, quite small and smoothed).
Ooohh, aggressive fire sounds awesome. It's angry!!
Jasc Paintshop Pro, I believe. It's not very common, especially not compared with Photoshop, which the whole world but me seems to swear by.
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I made a wheel of fire!
Paintshop Pro is what the computers at school have, I think. They used to have Photoshop, but then suddenly not. 
The majority of pictures in my gallery are made with PS Elements 5.0.
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Sweetness!!! Can I see?
Wow, you've got lots of cool stuff. But if it's free, it's extra lovely.
My paint program came with the obscure animation program I use as a trial, and you have to register it when you're done. But the animation thing is saved to the harddrive, so I've never had to register it.... it's weird.
Ooooh. 5.0 sounds spiffy. And they turn out so prettyyyyyyy.
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Augh, I didn't mean to hit send. Why can't different sites be consistent with their preview/send buttons?
Elements 5.0 and ArtRage 2 came with my tablet. ArtRage is really awesome, although I don't think it works on Mac.
I've heard of something like that happening before... Oh, well, their fault for not fixing the bugs. 
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Sure! I crammed three of my favourites into one picture. They don't go well together; the wheel doesn't look like it lacks light colours when it's alone and the big one actually looks better on a white background, but that wouldn't work for the other two... 
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Sweetness!!
I love the one in the middle... so swooshy.
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I had something to reference when I made my first tries, though.
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Please do! I'd love to see how it goes for other people trying this method.
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I think I might reload that GIMP studies pagge with a new fire idea... if I find the time... but there's a weekend coming up! So maybe-
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Weekend!!
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Precisely! And now i must work on my english portfolio.
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English... protfolio? Explain, please.
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In my A.P. english class, we have a huge collection of assignments that go withevery quarter. Essays on analysis and themes. A bio. on the author of th book we studied. A rundown of literary terms, stuff like that.
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Oh, I see. That's a lot to do. I wish my English class was more like that, and less.... like it is.
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I'm hoping to throw it all together in one weekend... we'll see how that works.
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Hmm. That could be interesting. A weekend's not a lot of time to do this, huh?
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Not really, but that's alright. I've got a house this wekend!
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OK... Do you not usually have a house on the weekends?
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Not to myself. 
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Aw, what kind of dog?
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Two black labs. They're full grown, but only a year old, so still quite hyperactive. Lots of fun!
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Love labs. I love my lab.
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Precisely. They're protective too though. I love them. I got really sick friday night, and woke up at one point and couldn't stop shaking. They sat on me until I fell asleep again, which seems insensitive, but honestly, I was so panicked, that it was probably the best thing for me.
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Oh, I'm sorry you got sick. Hope you're better!!
Aw, dogs are so sweet. If all too happy to sit on you....
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Much better, thank you.
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FIRE! <3
...you make me want to open photoshop now. <<;
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YAY!
You have fallen victim to my scheme.
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Played with PS already. X3
But I couldn't make it work. >_>
Kind of could, but meh. It started frustrating me when I got impatient with the smudging/dragging, cuz the white and red were making pink. o-o XD
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I'm all too familiar with that. XD You just need more orange and yellow usually, oddly enough.
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Hmm. Maybe I'll try that sometime. I DO love yellow and orange, so... XD
Oh. Maybe I could try it backwards. -shot- White, yellow, orange, then red. Instead of the other way around. XD
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Ooooh.
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The secret is out..... haha... hahaha....
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MUHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!! IT'S MINE!! IT'S FINALLY MINE!! THE POWER OF FIRE!!! >8DDD!!!
... wait..
I don't have ANY of those tools...
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Gah? Sorry.
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Great tutorial this should prove to be very helpful
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Thanks so much!! I hope it is helpful.
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