In this second digital painting tutorial i will teach you how to create a fire effect that I stumbled across whilst making an image. Its fairly simple and requires only basic knowledge of blending modes.

This will work on any version of photoshop from 6 up. Obviously CS4 is recommended and if you haven’t tried it out you should!

Step 1

First of all ensure your back ground is set to black, it is important as the end result does vary quite considerably depending on the choice of color used. You will need to brush out a fiery shape with a white brush set to 100% opacity and 100% thickness. Having some debris flying around randomly does help add to the effect as sparks.

Try different brush setting to get interesting effects. Also having some premade brushes will help you. Search deviant art or the freebie page on simplypsd.com. But to give you a rough example, check the image below.

Step 2

The next step is still simple, duplicate you initial brushed fire shape layer, and set a new layer to overlay. Then hit Ctrl+U and check colorize using the following settings:

• Hue = 35
• Saturation = 25 (default)
• Lightness = -50

This should give you a similar effect to the image below.

Step 3

Another simple step is to just duplicate your overlay layer and set it to color burn as you can see in the image below.

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