Saturday, August 22, 2009

Photoshop tutorial - Fiber

This tutorial will learn you how to create a fiber.

Create a new document. Size doesnt matter.
Now press "D" on your keyboard to reset the foreground and background colors to black and white. Fill your background with black color.

Go to Filter> Render Lens Flares and apply the following setting:
Then go to Image> Adjustments> Hue/Saturation Or press Ctrl + U, and apply the following setting:
After that, go to Filter> Pixelate> Mezzotint and use Short Strokes in drop down menu.
Then go to Filter> Blur> Radial Blur and apply the following setting:
Press Ctrl+F to do that again.
After that, it should look like this:
Apply Filter> Distort> Twirl and set the Angle to 110.
Now duplicate the Background layer. after that , go to Filter>Disort>Twirl, and set angle to -220.
Now set the Duplicated layer to lighten.
Now merge the 2 layers. Presss Ctrl+U or go to Image> Adjustments> Hue/Saturation.
Change the settings to this. (You can play around with the colors this time.)
Final results:
Thats it! That wasnt so hard wasnt it?
Orignal tutorial from HERE

Photoshop tutorial - Fire

This tutorial will learn you how to make a realistic fire effect.

Start off with a picture with 500x500.
Press 'D' to reset your Color Palette. Now go to Filter>Render>Clouds.
and then Filter>Render>Difference Clouds.
It should look a bit like this.
Now go to Image>Adjusments>Invert or press Ctrl + I.
Now go to Image>Adjusments>Levels or press Ctrl + L.
Then Apply these settings:
After that, go to Filter>Disort>Polar Coordinates, and apply the following settings:
Then Filter>Render>Lighting Effects and use the following settings:
Now go to Filter>Disort>Shear.
We need to change to color, to make it look more fire-y. So press Ctrl + U.
Now duplicate the layer and set it to overlay.
If you want you can change to colors, but i leave it like this.
results:
Thats it!

Rewritten & Final result 2 by me.
Click HERE for the site where i got it from.