A Work in Progress: Fire-Man

This guide was made for entry:
Fire-Man
In Contest:
on fire

step 1 of 21

Remove background.

Refine edge. (as shown)

Select > Inverse

Delete

step 2 of 21

Select Layer (ctrl click)

Create a new layer

Edit > Stroke

step 3 of 21

Gradient background

(new layer behind man)

step 4 of 21

Use smudge to create "flames"

step 5 of 21

Change layer style to
Color Dodge

step 6 of 21

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

step 7 of 21

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

step 8 of 21

Duplicate layer with "smoke"

(seen here with other layers visible)

step 9 of 21

Change hue on duplicated layer

step 10 of 21

reduce duplicated layers opacity to 50%

step 11 of 21

Duplicate "flame" layer and add Gaussian blur

step 12 of 21

Add outer glow to duplicated flame layer

step 13 of 21

bevel/emboss original "flame" layer

step 14 of 21

Glowing edge to man

step 15 of 21

hue/saturation on man

step 16 of 21

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

step 17 of 21

Inner shadow to flame layer

step 18 of 21

motion blur to to man layer

step 19 of 21

bevel/emboss man layer

step 20 of 21

Inner glow on man layer

step 21 of 21

added outer glow for more yellow.

Final result

Votes

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AndreasL
shankarsadamate229
Mqvlo
lincemiope
nicehotcupoftea
Score: 9.6

Comments

lincemiope says:

compliments. a very good tutorial. thank

(5 years and 2703 days ago)

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