photoshop

[ realistic.fire ] +shadow
[ dodged.smoke ] +teknoledge
[ golden.rock ] +teknoledge
[ cold.fusion ] +factorX
[ enlight.boom ] +iskin

3d.studio.max

[ max.glow ] +princesnoopy
[ ghost.material ] +princesnoopy
[ object.explosion ] +ryan
[ adding.textures ] +teknoledge
[ reflected.material ] +teknoledge

macromedia.flash

[ motion.blur ] +edwin

desktopX

[ desktopX.part 1 ] +infamous

golden.rock l 09-09-2k

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easy
photoshop 6.0, or lesser version
difference clouds, lighting effects,
reset your colors [ press d ]
[ teknoledge ]

[ first step]

Lets create a 200x200 pixel image. Create a new layer. Hit Ctrl+Backspace to fill the layer. Now you need to add some clouds[Filter > Render > Clouds]. Like the same way, choose [ Filter > Render > Difference clouds]. You should end up with something like the image at the left.

[ second step. ]

Now that we have some black line, go to [Image > Adjust > Invert]. (This will invert the color match). The image is kinda white instead of black now. Go to [Image > Adjust > levels..] and put the arrows where the highest black line shows, so we move it to the right .

[ third step ]

Now we want to colorize that beauty. :) . Go to [Image > Adjust > Hue/saturation..]. Give it a red color. ( Hue=5 , Saturation=55 , Lightness=0 ). Wow magnificient red things. After, we are gonna make its rocky fire surface. (That the most interessant part !) :) Go to [Filter > Render > Lightning effect]. Do the same as it is shown below and you'll end up with a great fire rocky surface!

[ sample ]

Add some details and make it look cool :) That's it! Enjoy...

[ tips ]

Always on dodged smoke layer, make a wave distort on him, but make it different from the first layer, the basic smoke one. Adjust the brightness/contrast again to make it real. About B: -24 C: +4. Well it should look like this, or near. It's that time again, the end of the tutorial. I hope you got some or more knowledge on blending.