A Work in Progress: Fire-Man



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Fire-Man
In Contest:
on fire


step 1 of 21

Remove background.

Refine edge. (as shown)

Select > Inverse

Delete

Creation of Fire-Man: Step 1

step 2 of 21

Select Layer (ctrl click)

Create a new layer

Edit > Stroke


Creation of Fire-Man: Step 2

step 3 of 21

Gradient background

(new layer behind man)

Creation of Fire-Man: Step 3

step 4 of 21

Use smudge to create "flames"

Creation of Fire-Man: Step 4

step 5 of 21

Change layer style to
Color Dodge

Creation of Fire-Man: Step 5

step 6 of 21

Use color burn and color dodge to create more light / dark areas on "flames"

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step 7 of 21

new layer, soft brush light color to create areas for "smoke" then use smudge tool

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Duplicate layer with "smoke"

(seen here with other layers visible)

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Change hue on duplicated layer

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step 10 of 21

reduce duplicated layers opacity to 50%

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step 11 of 21

Duplicate "flame" layer and add Gaussian blur

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Add outer glow to duplicated flame layer

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bevel/emboss original "flame" layer

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Glowing edge to man

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hue/saturation on man

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image at this point... now adding a few tweaks

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Inner shadow to flame layer

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motion blur to to man layer

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bevel/emboss man layer

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Inner glow on man layer

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step 21 of 21

added outer glow for more yellow.

Creation of Fire-Man: Step 21

Final result

Creation of Fire-Man: Final Result

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Comments

avatar lincemiope

compliments. a very good tutorial. thank

(5 years and 2665 days ago)