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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:17 am Post subject:
Find a good pic of fire...or at least the colors that would be within...Paste this onto of your coal image and position it to fit....Add a layer mask...use your airbrush with a low opacity, and begin to paint the corners until it looks right to you....when you're done apply layer mask...
You might want to then duplicate this layer now and try different blending modes to get a nice crispy colored image. _________________ Melanie Ward
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:49 am Post subject:
I should have been more specific I guess. I am starting from scratch, with a blank file and want to create an image of burning coals. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
1. Get a picture of some coals that you want to use. Call this layer Fire
2. Duplicate the layer, and call this layer Coal.
The Coal layer should be over the Fire layer
3. On the Coal layer, use the magic wand, (low setting and UNCHECK contiguous, CHECK anti-alias), select an area in a piece of coal. It should select a large portion of the image.
4. delete the selected areas
5. Hide the Coal Layer
6. on the Fire layer, go to the Hue/Saturation box. on the bottom, check Colorize and make the image red. Increase the saturation and adjust the colour to get the red glow you want.
7. Unhide the Coal layer and you should have coals that look to be glowing.
Unfortunatley, my computer is in the process of transferring a large 60GB folder to my new portable drive, so I don't have the resources to do a full step by step, but this should at least get you in the right direction.
If anyone else out here has any comments or corrections, feel free to add. I am running just on memory.
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:17 pm Post subject: i agree
griffonwing wrote:
try something like this.
1. Get a picture of some coals that you want to use. Call this layer Fire
2. Duplicate the layer, and call this layer Coal.
The Coal layer should be over the Fire layer
3. On the Coal layer, use the magic wand, (low setting and UNCHECK contiguous, CHECK anti-alias), select an area in a piece of coal. It should select a large portion of the image.
4. delete the selected areas
5. Hide the Coal Layer
6. on the Fire layer, go to the Hue/Saturation box. on the bottom, check Colorize and make the image red. Increase the saturation and adjust the colour to get the red glow you want.
7. Unhide the Coal layer and you should have coals that look to be glowing.
Unfortunatley, my computer is in the process of transferring a large 60GB folder to my new portable drive, so I don't have the resources to do a full step by step, but this should at least get you in the right direction.
If anyone else out here has any comments or corrections, feel free to add. I am running just on memory.
gw
yeah, this sounds like it will be the best. I haven't tried it yet but i think that if you play with the opacity and layer modes it will make it better
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