Realistic Fire & Flame Effects | Photoshop Tutorial

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in this quick tutorial I'll show you how

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to create realistic fire effects in

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Photoshop we start off with a daylight

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shot this is important as we'll need a

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well exposed image as a starting point

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first let's turn this into a nighttime

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scene add a levels adjustment layer and

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move the center slider to the right to

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create some contrast then lower the

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output levels until our scene is almost

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pitch-black create a new folder and

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inside it ida curves adjustment layer

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move the right handle all the way to the

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left until it reaches the edge of our

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histogram now add a photo filter

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adjustment layer select the custom color

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option turned density right up to

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hundred percent make sure that preserve

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luminosity is enabled lastly we're going

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to set the light color to the exact

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color of a candle flame to do this

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change the RGB value to read 255 green

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147 and blue 41 and then it's ok now

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that we have our fire light it's time to

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paint into our original scene select the

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folder and then click the add mask

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button while holding down the alt or

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option key this creates a mask that

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hides all of our fire light next with

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the folder mask selected use a soft

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white brush start painting the fire

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light into your scene it's best to use a

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low-flow setting like twenty-five

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percent furnace so you can build up

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gradually take your time as you're

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painting and try to think carefully

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about how your light will affect the

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scene some areas of your scene will

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receive a lot more light than others I'm

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happy with my lighting now so let's

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start adding some fire effects

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first the fire itself I place a flame

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image that has a pure black background

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into my scene then to get rid of the

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black background I change the blending

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mode to screen after some careful

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positioning I get it in just the right

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place things are looking quite cool

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already however there's a lot more we

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can do to make this even more realistic

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first off I'm going to add some smoke I

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do this in exactly the same way as I did

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the fire except this time it's important

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for me to lower the opacity so the smoke

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doesn't look too bright next I add in

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some sparks the same way I did the fire

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these look pretty cool I can just

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imagine the atmosphere now as the fire

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crackles away I'm not completely

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satisfied though there's still a

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dimension that's lacking here a fire

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emits a lot of heat creating hot air

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that distorts the background behind it

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therefore I'm going to want to recreate

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this I duplicate my background and then

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with the top copy selected I go to

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filter and filter gallery under the

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distort section I select the glass

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filter and then choose the canvas

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texture the slider settings are

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completely up to you and will basically

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depend on your scene finally press ok to

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apply the filter unfortunately this is

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applied our heat distortion effect to

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the entire scene instead we want to

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paint this effect on to fix this select

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your upper background copy and click to

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add a new mask with the alt or option

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key held down next painting the

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distortion area just like we did with

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the firelight earlier while you're doing

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this remember that hot air travels

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upwards and sometimes if there's a light

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breeze diagonally as well things are

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looking pretty realistic now but I'm not

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completely happy with the color grading

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firstly some of our Reds have become

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overexposed to fix this add a curves

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adjustment layer

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and select the red channel move the

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right handle down until you see the red

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color is looking just right another

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problem is that we have a bit too much

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black in our background this takes a lot

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of interest away from our scene so we're

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going to want to lift that up a bit

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change back to the RGB channel and lift

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up the left-hand rule you can also make

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some other tweaks as necessary you can

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see that this is really enhance the look

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of our scene I'm really happy with this

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now that's it for this tutorial if you

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enjoyed it subscribe and hit the like

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button and I'll see you next time