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Amazing fire in Photoshop

November 14, 2007

Most of you know that I have written some tutorials on how to create smoke using Photoshop. Last weekend I took sometime and tried to come up with a nice and easy way to create fire in Photoshop.

There are lots of good tutorials on the internet about creating fire but the majority are creating fire for text effects. What I was looking was to reproduce an effect I saw sometime ago in a Nike Ad. It was that fire that is created when a spaceship or comet enters the earth's atmosphere.

After some hours trying, I came up with a very convincing effect. I redid it several times trying to simplify the steps until it was easy enough for me to write a tutorial about how I did it. Below you can see the image. The tutorial will be published soon at psdtuts.com.

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iPhone Wallpaper Version

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18 Comments

El.Refinery01/03/2009

yeah, it would be great if you could post a tut of your coffee-cup. It looks really cool.

Yopladas12/17/2008

Constantin, type your text, go to object, select expand, use the back arrow tool thing, deselect exerything by clicking on a blank part of the canvas, reselect the text, go to effect>3d>extrude and bevel.

DonAman09/24/2008

TNX!:*

afg8904/27/2008

hey can post the psd please ?

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Constantin Potorac01/12/2008

Hi there,

I was wondering if you can provide or share a tut on how to make the 3d text. I want to so some wallpapers and typography work using some 3d text but I new to Illustrator.

Can you help?

Thanks

Francisco01/04/2008

Sweet tutorials i just wish the flame part was a little bit more detailed...I'm well with PS and i had a little trouble...

Thanks tho! Great TUT!

Best Regards,
Francisco C.
http://www.1984interactive.com

Pelmen12/01/2007

Looks very good.

Wondering if you could do a tutorial on how you did that thing above the light.

Davide Bisconti11/27/2007

very nice!

Erik Diamond11/22/2007

I am looking forward to see this tutorial. I have always dream of creating a comets hurling down through our earth's atmosphere. Let me know when you post the tutorial.

Keep up good job,

Erik Diamond

Aelizia11/21/2007

Hi,
Amazing work done by you.Waiting eagerly to see your tutorial!!!!!!
Thanks!

rayidea11/20/2007

The title is with the word:"amazing",and your work is amazine too,I want to see your tutorial faster and faster.

Benny11/17/2007

Cool looking forward to see your new tutorial :-)

Anonymous11/16/2007

UP.
very nice!
i like it..

Polo11/15/2007

Realy nice, thanks (I hope his coming soon on PSDtuts) !

giackop11/14/2007

Great.. looking forward to see your new tut!!

I have a request.. Can You make a tutorial about the creation of your coffee icon?? I just love it!!! And i will buy you a tasty coffee!!!

Thanx!!

Tekikou11/14/2007

No post at psdtuts :s

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