Fiery Explosions in Photoshop

[warkarma]

sweet Jezus, I would never, ever guess to make an explosion fire out of clouds :D. AMAZING! thnx

[walterwelch]

I'd just use the burn tool LOL

[bluekitten80]

amazing simple but very pro

[DaWeeHD]

nice nice nice !! thank you BRO ! <3 :)

[TheTiababy10]

So coooool(:

[CURT11S]

Cool im going to go blow some things up in my pictures . . of course

[XCMremy]

AWE-SOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[caglebagl]

You did this in 10 mins!? You gotta respect that.

[KILLERONROAD]

Excellent tutorial! Thanks dude!

[tomjaduke]

I love the way that some people are just so clever and creative with 'stuff' and create nearly everything from nothing

[wirgiukass]

this is just absolutely awesome. You sound so nice and your tutorial is superb :) love it

[yatap]

thanks for the tutorial..

[shisymbol]

Makes it look quite 'easy'. Will definitely have a go when I get a bit more proficient with Photoshop. thanks

[Animationgatecom]

Brilliant, nice one!!

[joemiked]

nice!

[HaNik14]

He nice vid! But how do you do that on 2:58 overlay? and on 4:20?

thanks.

[Dexon25]

wher can i donwload your clouds?

[Adavur]

@Dexon25 I recommend going outside for a bit and download a couple of clouds with a camera. but if you are afraid of sunlight like me, try googling ;)

[Dexon25]

@Adavur hehe i dont have good camera and i try to googling but i dint see good clouds :) i need good clouds for website background :)

[DalueCommentarys]

All tutorials should be like this.

[MrFredzzz]

dude, amazing work! if you came up with it your self then you are truly a genious! :D

[lancelking]

I got: Photfiltre (or something like that 8-D) Can ya do something like this whit that?

[joshuathejedi]

Dude, this is awesome! Plz respond; I have 1 question: where did you get your clouds? Thank you!!!

[Golivewiththis]

Can I merry your libary of clouds?

[joshuathejedi]

Hey, nice tutorial. Really helpfull :)

But, my explosion always looks different, and ...

more yellow than red. I've tried everything, but I can't figure out how to make mine

look quite as good as yours. Could it possibly be the cloud photos?

[Inkognitohaloramics]

This is actually an amazing tutorial, you did a really great job in showing a simple way to make awesome, high quality explosions. Thank you :)

[thelucaspaul2]

:) Here's one I rendered earlier. ^^

[ross259]

Very, very good tutorial.

[ussprinceton2004]

is this possible to do on Photoshop elements 8?

[od077]

very good thanks

[rroobboo999]

you could just Render Clouds from Filters, it`s much more easier to do. And of course, now we know that you KNOW how to use several textures in one picture

[UlyssesHelmlinge]

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[planetNS]

SUCH a great tutorial! really easy to follow, and a really good end result!

[MediaRoyals]

dude.. your awesome! this tutorial is very quick and helpful! thanks!

[Stafare]

Nice final picture although I dont agree with some of your methods, such as erasing instead of using a mask, I don't like to edit in a destructive manner, (no pun intended haha)

[crazycabose]

man if you still have all those cloud photos can you email me them?

[biboobox]

@crazycabose yo man....just go on google & write " clouds walpaper" i've got'em from there...peace

[Bloxy123]

@biboobox Didn't really help out for me.

[000rosiex]

oh my god, i love your acsent. You sound do sexy.

Sorry, nice tutorial.

[selewin]

i think its brilliant i had a idea for make the ship a bit more red and yellow like its effected from the glow of the explosion. and some cloudes thats u can see trough a but on the edges. didnt try it bud mayby it looks nice

[mohaideen]

how do u overlay??



[HighEnoughForWings]

great video, thanks a bunch!

[TheMatttm]

this tut is great

[emerald9810]

which photoshop is better? Elements 8 OR CS4?

[koshaku000]

@emerald9810 Elements is a cheaper model they sorta just give out. Photoshop can do more and it better.

[emerald9810]

@koshaku000 thanks

[HighEnoughForWings]

@emerald9810 cs4

[MrLemonyFresh]

Wow, Now I to worry about expensive royalties for explosions :D

[Ash44455666]

Ooh wow, the result is so awesome but the required effort is so minimal. Even someone relatively new to photoshop like myself can pull this off with ease. Thank you very much for putting this up.

Brb, blowing up space needle.

[waltography]

great video, really good. thanks for sharing

[MYopinionTIME]

I want to buy this photoshop, but which one is been used here? Is it Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 & Premiere Elements 8 or Photoshop CS4

[davidcsimon]

@MYopinionTIME CS3, this is quite an old video.

[MYopinionTIME]

@davidcsimon THANKS, but wouldn't CS4 or photoshop 7 be better as the number is highter?

[onlyonedk]

@MYopinionTIME why would you buy it?

its available for free you know? =p

just download it

[Jeffs820]

Very nice. I own a printing company where we also do design. I'll keep this in mind.

[TheIndoSmith]

thats really awesome

[burhanyuerum]

wow really interesting video, how can i find those type of exploded views of object to start working on?

[minggnim]

Who are the 17 a**holes who didn't like this?!

[jaalmighty]

@minggnim I bet they're some assholes :P

[asafer0]

@minggnim the same 17 a88holds who dident thumb up thes

[Kallen2121]

Damn thats awesome! =)

[darthgabriel97]

can you download photoshop for free? Anyone? Plz tell me ^^

[HaloPlayer013]

@darthgabriel97

Only a 30 day trial version.

[freaklatino13]

wow...sweet

[BRATdotCOM]

Glorious work! I'll definitely use the technique. Koodos.

[notdavis1900]

all u say is "now we colorize" how do u do that?

[prezakias4life]

Image->Adjust->Hue/Saturation.

I have Russian version of photoshop, but I think this is where the colorize option is following the English version.

[MooreCona]

Coul you upload your cloud images to a file hosting site please ?

Nice video i will SUB

[NesredepEvo]

Holy Smitherins.. that is cool!!

and easy!!

[The5thpolice]

Very useful!

[fibersiv]

cool

[sporeaddict056]

how do you ajust the levels/

[garzolfeperayshanat]

Nice work but not for learning this was just for watching coz can't see from where u coloring can't see your layer how to use but good job

[MrTechnogeek52]

Cool! Where can I get Photoshop?

[RobinMoviesOffical]

@MrTechnogeek52 Adobe(dot)com...

[rimzu1dnk]

sorry for asking this noob question...but where can i find the colorize button?:D

[WindowsHelpPC]

what program do you use to make the ship parts that are flying off? and where can i find a tutoral. thanks :)

[Studioericty]

@WindowsHelpPC Just find the parts some where on the internet and make them look like their flying off...duh..

[zapppel]

can any1 tell me how do u soften the edges like how he did it??HELLPP

[thedeathranger]

very good tutorial but where can i find a ship that is exploding but without the explosion itself?

[zvonkoize]

nice tutorial about explosions , and how to make one..........

its great thx

[retroelectrohh]

exellent my friend :D

[laloksdm]

The explosive clouds

[Zato1chi]

Impressive *****

[powerlaurent]

dude showw uss the work with layer

i kow but for thers and the orverlay thing iss up at layers

the blenfind mode

anyway 3/5 was goodd

[Ryuuga]

Thx for the great tutorial!

[dasicknt]

That is really good, thank you very much

[sopirain]

awsome thanks...

what does overlay do by the way?

just curious

[Gehussterhodn]

in the layeroptions

[zapppel]

and how do i overlay it???HELLPPPP

[zapppel]

how come i cant click hue/saturation???i tried but then i cant click it even though its there......some1 pls help me.....

[Daxterfan024]

@zapppel

Make sure it is RBG color, and make sure you click on the a layer which is not locked. :D

[supersayajinvegeta]

That's awesome man. Thanks a lot.

[chimpy2k7]

how do u overlay any1

[VanilijaDemoni]

The back explosion looks SO FREAKING AWESOME!

[Araxmas]

My god it's Gaius Baltar

[zapppel]

how do u bring the clouds behind the spaceship???mine goes in front and covers the whole thing...Some1 pls tell me.....

[PatchCornAdams721]

Its very simple layers. Go to the layers palette, and move the clouds layers down to one above the background layer :-)

Hope this helps

[mrttou]

Move your fore ground object to the top of your layers in the layers bin.

[TeddyBearSamurai]

change around the layers so that the spaceship is on top

[AlCoholic162]

u have to play with the layerorder....

The top layer will be the most visible... the 2nd will only be covered by the top layer and so on... and so on....

[flemmingnor]

have fun blowing things up!

ah.. you know.. not realy..

hehe

[lipefodastico]

Very good, thank's help me a lot! ;)

[davix8]

sry for noob question, how do u do the colorize thing? the one that changes the cloud color??? plz tell meeeee

[xMiOsEx]

I think it is ctrl u or ctrl alt u

[wutwutwutz]

You go to Image in the top bar, then Adjustments, and then Hue/Saturation.

In the bottom-right corner of the Hue/Saturation window is a checkbox called "Colorize" ,Check it and your good to go.

[essexjoker]

go to image - adjustments - hue/saturation or press ctrl u.

[anotherlifebrother]

use HUE/SATURATİON settings. click colorize. very eazy...

[ONLY1STACKZ]

one word "shitty"

in non slang terms sweet!

[URZeroGravity]

A tutorial on how to make beautiful, soothing clouds into massive, fiery explosions.

Nothing is more awesome than changing clouds to explosions.

[ChemicalJehuty]

"have fun blowing things up... not really" - great tutorial ! Gonna try this myself - just have to take some pictures of a few more clouds :o)

[mshefik1]

Excellent tutorial mate, very easy and effective, cheers

[Dovlacija]

great work! 5/5

[HunajaMelooni]

Your link doesn't work!

[gundamplus]

thanks

[KamikazeDesigns]

is it better to take pictures of clouds or google um....cause i google everything...

[DragonKrystal]

You can google anything. But you gotta be really freaking sure that you don't break any copyright infringements. You SHOULDN'T have any problems with clouds, but don't hold my word on that XD

Basically if there's a copyright thing anywhere on the page, read it and if it's one of those (for personal use, sure) thingeys sure, go ahead. Follow the copyright and you'll be fine.

No copyright=easy to use, just copy it into photoshop and you're good to go :D

[KamikazeDesigns]

seems too good to be true....but quality wise....will google be enough...

[CrypticWriter]

I found this highly helpful. Thank you!

[and1rew]

Z lol

[adhothasleym]

no! ctrl + + or ctrl + - and alt + + or alt + -

[and1rew]

i answered the hotkey shortcut for zoom LOL

[DogCoolBlue]

Hey, just a quick question, how do you do the overlay thing that you kept mentioning?

Please respond and thx,

[Shamang0d]

Go to the layer window, click on a laer you want and on top of the layer window, click on the "normal" and a list of options will come out, click overlay.

[Jcguitarboi10]

,it's from the layer palette, there's a blending mode option..then change it to overlay..he just do the shortcut keys on keyboard..

[xirvin92]

tnxs man !!

[happySkullHead]

cool idea ^^

[Ghostly2637]

this was added on my birthday lol

[greyhounds777]

Thanks David,brill tutorial!Would never have thought of this.can be used to do gallaxys and fire too.Are these clouds you use , taken by yourself-or stock images?cheers

[mcveryserious]

nice!!

[CodFourWhore]

u have a fetish with clouds i swear

no one has that many picuters of clouds

[Din94]

nice work man!!!

[jcii2]

I found this very helpful.

Thank you very very much Sir.

[FlippytheMasterofPie]

Hmm. I never thought of making them like that. Thanks a lot.

[std114]

Awsome! It looks so great ^^

[8Twilight9]

haha thats cool to make an explosion out of clouds :D

[biggermanbomber]

how to change the scale of the pic like he do at 1:03 - 1:05?

[GUTTGrinder]

Would this work if I rendered clouds with Photoshop?

[laggiator]

it proberly will

[MikeMonroeM]

it will. pick your colours, got to filters /rendering filters and choose CLOUDS one time. After that, go back to filters /rendering filters and this time choose Difference Clouds, that will invert your colors, but intensify your cloudy texture. Hit Difference Clouds again and you intensify some more and reinvert the coloirs again.

Use that to your disrcetion and shape the clouds by Transforming them ...

[Daxterfan024]

@GUTTGrinder

It is even BETTER if you rendered it. You don't have to erase the edges or anything! Only colorize and overlay! :D

[iBRUISEGSPOTS]

i have cs4 and i ahve a hard time changing the color. help me?

[partyweg]

You can find the Hue/Saturation window under Image/Adjustments. Standard keyboard shortcut would be ctrl+U...

[pinkfetus]

nice

[rorag111]

what program did he use to build the ship? just cant find out, plz help

[sexiw0lf]

either 3D Studio Max or Maya probably.

[laggiator]

oor he just googled a pic

[phobos0411]

thats a great video, never knew I could do THAT in photoshop...with clouds as well!

[rorag111]

how was the ship modeled? never found anything on your site that shows how you did that.just wanted so i could start making my own ideas for a si-fi strip. been a fan for about 6 months now, this is the video that got me to check out the comic!

[airman171717]

how does he change the color of the clouds. can u plz help. i have adobe Photoshop CS4

[maximumfail]

press command (or ctrl) and U. Check the box that says colorize and play around with the sliders.

[whateverdude420]

thats the coolest I've seen photoshop can do!

[SgtMathijs]

how can you that sky behind that space thing at the begin?

[embeebutterly]

cool, im gonna go blow up my house

[hales9691]

I have a different version of Photoshop so I got really lost about erasing the parts of the "fire," but futhermore, it didn't come out bad (mine, that is.) Yours came out SO much better! Thx for putting this up.

[mrboogiemantube]

kaboom!

nice nice :)

i'll make my own EXPLOSION ;)

LOL

\m/^_^

[Ghost77Riders]

Neat! I enjoyed the video clip! Alexei of Alberta Canada

[mickiz0elin]

You'r great! :D<33

[AtemDesPhoenix]

a man can make it in german? :(

[bigredone100]

that...was...cold!

Nice job.

[Csperm]

AMAZING!! THANKS MAN

[smallcena92]

can u do the same tutorial but use photoshop CS4?? The functions on CS4 is a lot different

[andeciuala]

Great man.

[gianhet]

wow!!

really thx, its fantastic !!!! :D

[smallcena92]

This is a very old version of photoshop right??

[nasmannen]

It looks like CS1, but I could be wrong.

[ThePsychoMike]

This is a really great tutorial, and I love the way you've done it--it's brilliant, really, but there's one little snag in this example--There's no explosions in space.

[Vash118811]

No no there are explosions in space. I think you meant how there are no sounds in space. If you want an example of something burning in space, there's always that bright yellow thing in the sky or supernovae.

[ThePsychoMike]

Space is a vacuum, a vacuum contains no air. Fire needs oxygen to burn. There are no explosions in space besides ones taking place within the atmosphere of planets.

[Vash118811]

I wonder what the pilot breathes inside his cockpit there might be some oxygen in that. I wonder what's in the fuel tank? Maybe some fuel and oxidizer? I heard that rocket fuel can blow things up pretty well when it's not controlled. Besides what we're talking about here is a quick explosion. Not a long drawn out fire.

[ThePsychoMike]

Some, but unless you unleash a vast amount of oxygen into the area it won't do anything. You need at least 16% oxygen to keep a fire burning. Fires and explosions are essentially the same thing, but explosions occur much quicker and more violently and usually aren't sustained.

So, with that being said, the only way you're going to have 16% oxygen in the immediate area around the said explosions is by being inside an atmosphere.

[Vash118811]

Why do I get the impression that you haven't read my whole post? Why does this happen so much online? *sigh* I'll repeat myself. Rocket fuel blows up big. BIG KABOOM. If you're wondering where the oxygen comes from, did you know that there's such a thing as oxidizers? Also if the ship is using fission, fusion, antimatter drives, or the like, then the question of oxygen is just removed....Just re-read my last comment.

[travisboy1es]

You can not light i fire in space, but you can have a fire burning for the duration of the fuel being burned. Space ships do not use rocket fuel out side of the Earths atmosphere because there is no gravity so they detach the fuel tank. You don't no much about space neither does psychomike, I hope this settles your dispute.

[Vash118811]

Lighting fire is possible for the duration of fuel and oxidizer. Also the spaceships that you're speaking of are not the type to be able to do actual combat as they jettison their fuel and then follow planned paths with only inertia and the gravity of nearby planets n' crap to help it. We're talking about the kinds of ships that can change direction and accelerate by themselves in space. Last I checked, those require some form of propulsion. Don't insult others unless you're sure you're better.