PAINT EDGE BLENDING HOW TO

Just make sure that the fire maintains enough shape and definition to look realistic! This will allow you to control where it appears. Just use a soft, round Brush set to a relatively low Flow and paint with black on the Layer Mask of the fire layer. Pretty easy work for the Brush Tool and Layer Masks. Guess what? ThatвЂ™s pretty much it! Now we just need to make sure the fire only appears exactly where we want it to. This will turn those relatively dark areas of the image to pure black, making them invisible with the Screen Blending Mode active. With the fire image layer selected, hit CTRL or CMD + L and move the dark slider to the right. In order to get rid of the dark background around the fire, weвЂ™ll need to make it even darker. The Screen Blending Mode will only make pure black elements completely invisible. This makes the majority of the dark background invisible but, as youвЂ™ll notice, not completely invisible. We chose to set the fire images to the Screen Blending Mode. By setting the fire images to particular Blending Modes, you can make the dark background invisible while leaving the brighter fire elements visible. Most of this effect is done using a single tool: Blending Modes. Once you have the right images prepared, the rest of the effect is a piece of cake! LetвЂ™s see how itвЂ™s done.

All you need are photos of fire on a pure black/relatively dark background.

PAINT EDGE BLENDING HOW TO

(But it can be done, and we show you how in our PRO course How to Create a Glow Effect in Photoshop!)ДЄs for the fire, itвЂ™s pretty easy to find free stock photos that will work. Just keep this point in mind if youвЂ™re capturing your own images: itвЂ™s always easier to use a photographed light source than trying to recreate one from scratch in Photoshop. We chose a background image that already includes a light source that will work perfectly for our fire effect. The first thing to consider is that fire is a light source, and it will need to emit light in any environment that itвЂ™s added to. And thatвЂ™s exactly why weвЂ™re going to show you how to add a fire effect to an image using free stock photos of actual fire.Д«lending images of fire into another scene is a relatively easy process, but youвЂ™re going to need the right images to pull it off.

Oftentimes the most realistic special effects come from using real photographs to create them.

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