In this tutorial, we will create a fireball effect in photoshop
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Throughout the tutorial, the elliptical selection must not be deselected.
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. Throughout the tutorial, the elliptical selection must not be deselected.*img405.imageshack.us/img405/8268/untitled1ps6.th.jpg
- Make a new page of 1024X768, with black background.
- After you open the page, make the colors default(black as foreground and white as background).
- Select the elliptical marquee tool and make a selection. Your size of the selection will be the size of the fireball.
- Now after you make a elliptical selection, go to Filter>Render and click on Clouds.
- Go to Filter>Render and click on Difference Clouds.
- Hit Ctrl+I and Ctrl+L to open the Levels panel. Set the Input Levels to 0, 0.10, 225, means hold the gray mark and pull it to the right corner of the graph.
- Now go to Filter>Distort and click on Spherize, set the mode to Normal and the amount to 100 and click OK. Hit Ctr+F.
- Now go to Filter>Stylize and click on Find Edges and hit Ctrl+I.
- Hit Ctrl+U and set these values,
- Hue – 0
- Saturation – 100 select colorize and click OK
- Duplicate the layer(make sure the duplicated layer will be on top of original layer) and hit Ctrl+U and set these values,
- Hue – 40
- Saturation – 100 deselect colorize and click OK.
- Set the blending mode of duplicated layer to Linear Dodge.
- Merge the layers by hitting Ctrl+E.
- Repeat these 16 steps and create three layers.
- After repeating those 16 steps, you will get three layers of the fireball.
- Now set the blending mode of the topmost layer to Linear Dodge, and of the second the layer to Linear light, and of the third layer to normal.
- Merge all the layers.
- Now apply some outer glow and inner glow effects of your own desired values.
- You can apply and other effect instead of step 21, deselect the elliptical selection by hitting Ctrl+D and go to Filter>Distort and click on Polar Coordinates, select Polar to Rectangular and click OK.
- Now go to Image>Rotate Canvas and click on 90CW.
- Go to Filter>Stylize and click on Wind, select From the Right and click OK. Ctrl+F once.
- Go to Image>Rotate Canvas and click ok 90CCW.
- Go to Filter>Distort and click on Polar Coordinates, select Rectangular to Polar and click OK.
- You can stop here, if you want some more effects, go to Image>Mode and click on Gray Scale.
- Go to Image>Mode and click on Indexed Layers.
- Go to Image>Mode and click on Color Table, switch from Gray Scale to Black Body, and click OK.
- Thanks for viewing my tutorial.
