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Combine fire, glow and crack effect in photoshop to create a realistic burning image
In this advanced tutorial youll make a dramatic photomanipuation of a burning fist with photoshop fire effects. Youll learn how to make burning effect in photoshop, including create cracked skin textures, particle effects, scorched and burnt skin, glowing embers, smoke and flame effects. This is an intermediate level tutorial, so a fair level of competence in Photoshop is necessary in order to progress through it.
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Subscribe for Full RSS Feeds With the photo open in Photoshop, take the Quick Selection Tool and use it to drag a selection over the arm and fist. Go to Select > Refine Edge, and use the sliders to tighten up the selection, as I have in the image below. Subscribe for Email RSS Follow us on Twitter
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Right click on the Background layer, and choose Layer From Background, then give the layer a new name, for example arm. You can now Invert the selection, and delete the background.
Were now going to resize the canvas so that its dimensions are more suited to our project. Go to Image > Canvas Size, and change the dimensions to 1500 x 2100.
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You can now reposition the arm layer as I have below, so that the fist is just south of the centre of the canvas.
To add a simple gradient background, click on the Adjustment Layer button at the bottom of the layers panel, and choose Gradient. Use a dark grey (#1d1d1d) to light grey (#e6e6e6) gradient, and move the gradient layer below the arm layer.
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Next add a Curves adjustment layer above the arm layer. Click on the black colour picker button and then click on the darkest area of the hand. Similarly, click on the white colour picker and then click on the lightest part of the hand. Right click on the Curves layer and choose Create Clipping Mask to constrain the adjustments to just the pixels in the arm layer.
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Set the Color Fill layers blending mode to Overlay, then take a large soft white brush, and paint over the hand area and part way down the wrist.
Now duplicate the layer and change the duplicates blending mode to Normal, and take the Opacity down to 50%.
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And finally add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer with a clipping mask, and take the saturation down to -60. Fill the layer mask with black, and then take a large soft white brush, and paint over the hand area. THis is how to darken an image in photoshop.
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Next add a Curves adjustment layer and use the black colour picker to choose a dark part on one of the cracks, and the white colour picker to click on a lighter area between the cracks.
Now go to Select > Color Range and choose Shadows from the dropdown list, then click OK. This will select all the dark areas of the image i.e. the cracks. Copy the selection, and paste it into your project.
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Change the cracked texture layers blending mode to Overlay, then move it over the hand positioning it however it looks best. Duplicate the layer, call the top layer cracks, and the bottom layer cracks glow, and give them both clipping masks and layer masks.
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Click on Outer Glow, set the Blending Mode to Linear Dodge (Add), with the Opacity at 100%, the size at 2px, and use red/orange (#ff5400) for the colour.
Next choose Inner Glow and set the Blending Mode to Normal, the Opacity to 30%, the colour to yellow (#ffe400), and set the Size to 1px. Click OK.
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Now you can unhide the cracks layer, and with its layer mask selected, fill it with black to mask out the cracks. Take a large, soft white brush and paint over the hand and part way down the arm to bring the cracks back to those areas. Use a smaller black brush to mask out any areas where the crack texture looks unnatural like the thumbnail and between the fingers.
Now fill the cracks glow layer mask with black. Take a small white brush set to 50% Opacity, and paint over small parts of the cracks to reveal the glow. This is how to create a cool glow effect in photoshop.
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Next go to Image > Adjustments > Desaturate. Go to Select > Select All, then copy and paste the smoke into your project.
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Move the smoke layer to the top of your layers panel, and change its blending mode to Overlay. Use the Move Tool to position the smoke over the top of the hand.
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When youre done, double click on the embers layer to bring up the Layer Styles box. Click on Color Overlay, and set the colour to white. Next click on Outer Glow and set the Blending Mode to Linear Dodge (Add), the Opacity to 100%, the colour to orange (#ff4e00), and the Size to 10 px.
Click on Inner Glow, and set the blending mode to Normal, the colour to yellow (#ffe400), and the Size to 1px.
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With the glow effect now applied you can duplicate the embers layer a couple of times, and reposition and resize the duplicate layers to add more embers.
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Align the flame over the top part of the fist using the Move Tool.
Set the flame layers blending mode to Screen to hide the black background of the texture.
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Finally add a layer mask, and use a large soft black brush set to 50% Opacity to blend out the bottom of the flames.
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