How to make a Fireball

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How to make a Fireball; A nice and handy effect
Topic Started: Mar 15 2006, 10:29 PM (10,151 Views)
threat54	Mar 15 2006, 10:29 PM Post #1
Posts: 73 Group: Official Members Member #865 Joined: February 26, 2006	here is a tut on how to make a hot looking light ball 1.first you start off with a 500x200 canvas and fill your background with black. 2.make a new layer 3. choose the brush which i specied in the image below: make the size 150. 4.make sure the foreground color is white and make a mark in the middle of your canvas like this: now to add the effect 5. now make a new layer and choose this brush: 6.now tap the brush around the light ball you just made. dont hold your mouse or else it willl look all smeared like this: when it should look like this: 7.Now set the blending mode of that layer to soft light and put it at 75% opacity: so it should look a little something like this: 8.Now your done with your fireball...all you have to do is add the color. 9.so you go to image > adjustments > color balance 10. now put the settings like this: and now your done my final image came out like this: but you can tweak around with other filters and settings to make your fireball look more realistic you also get a very nice effect if you merge your light ball and the brushing around it and then go to filter > distort > wave and put it on square with defualt settings. you may also add light dots under the color balance layer and set them to overlay...its a nice ffect...just play around with effect and you will get a great out come. This Tutorial is COPYRIGHTED [size=7]©[/size] By real emotion and was made by threat54 if you like this tut why not register by clicking HERE!



Endless Evil Bliss</3	Mar 16 2006, 05:49 AM Post #2
Posts: 138 Group: Official Members Member #771 Joined: February 6, 2006	It's not too much a fireball. Use the Smudge tool to make flames.



planzer	Mar 16 2006, 04:47 PM Post #3
Posts: 124 Group: Official Members Member #1,039 Joined: March 5, 2006	it looks sorta like the sun but yea a good tut none the less. nice one.



Miss. Housewife	Mar 22 2006, 04:34 PM Post #4
I AM LILIAN Posts: 6,179 Group: Global Moderator Member #1,064 Joined: March 9, 2006	I like the effect without that much noise



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