Special Effects – Painting Fire
In this tutorial Daarken shows you an easy way to paint fire using gradient maps. A big thanks goes out to Steve Argyle for this awesome technique.
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24 Comments on "Special Effects – Painting Fire"
I Saw the trick on Final Charge, is very usefull.. thanks a lot
When you liquify and have troubles seeing what you did, try using the bottom option: Show Backdrop, and then change the mode menue. You should see your Background, too.
Keep up the good work!
Hell yes! Thank You so much for this, Daarken You’re a god!
I really love this fire effect, nice and easy to make. Thanks!!!
really nice trick, thanks!
Sweet. Steve Argyle rocks!
supper usefull, thanks daarken!
AMAZING trick.. ive been struggling with creating fire alot.. i even think the whole ” liquify ” tip will help me a ton… thanks!
is it possible for you to post the fire gradient?
It is extremely easy to make. Just go from black to orange to yellow. It only takes a few seconds.
You could try using:
#000000 -> #d37140 -> #f6ce78
This should give you a decent fire-gradient.
Thanks guys, the problem I was having was not understanding how to use 3 colors. Thanks for the info Tom
cool stuff. I saw you explain this in one of your big tutorials but I understand it a lot better after this video. thanks!
Very nice tutorial Daarken, thank you very much!
where did u get the cloud custom paint?
You can download my brushes from the media section.
Great!! Thanks for share with us Daarken
wow.. awesome.. ive never really learnt how to use gradient maps, i had no idea how or what they were used for but this looks really usefull. there are so many uses running through my head right now. ive always used colour or ovelay or something but then it looks flat because its monochromatic. i like this because you get the variation between the slightly cooler tinted shadows and warmer highlights.. thanks for the PS level up
haha youre awesome daarken
I don’t understand the black layer,because i let it average opacity of 0% that the effect work but 100% not work
Thank you very much! You don’t know how much I appreciate this.
I can’t get this to work. I try to follow the steps to the letter, but the gradient map floods the canvas with colour no matter what I do. Are there any common mistakes I might be doing here?
One end of the gradient has to go to pure black.
Right, apparently I just haven’t grasped how gradient maps work. Still struggling with it, but I’ll get there in the end, once I figure out where the pure black goes. Something to do with those sliders… Thanks for the quick response!
Thanks so much for these tutorials. I have a really hard time with these glow effects and you make them look so easy. I am going to try it out and see if I can get a good result.