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Fire

Thursday, March 15th, 2007 – running time 11:04
HOT!! HOT!! HOT!! This episode is smoking hot. By popular demand, Bert works his magic and shows us how to create fire. It is not quite as simple as lighting a match, but as Bert demonstrates, it is not too much more complicated than that.

Bert has made his source files available for this episode available here

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Highlights
just right ( 3:47, 3:47 ) Kate white ( 3:43, 3:43 ) Cold wind ( 2:59, 2:59 ) hue saturation ( 6:02, 6:28, 6:02, 6:28 ) just right ( 3:47, 3:47 ) Kate white ( 3:43, 3:43 ) Cold wind ( 2:59, 2:59 ) hue saturation ( 6:02, 6:28, 6:02, 6:28 )

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" Hi welcome to another episode pixel perfect would -- show -- show you all kinds of cool stuff with Photoshop and today I'm to a request. Why request lot of people estimates. -- How to do fire in Photoshop actually did a long time ago of the two. Little loved Christmas card in -- on the screen savers and move fireplace -- a fire going up. This talent take my time and explain it. Explain what's going on exactly. Do some fire. And it might do a lot file just plain white does Gingrich I'm gonna -- And make it black. And -- white. I'm gonna type in the word. By. And this is different font this is something -- will serve to make go -- times here. Times bowl that's good there's my little text. -- Now I know it's spelt right so right off the bat I'm going to do is go in there and a dual layer -- rise of type. Turning it into actual pixels. -- As -- on top here. One on the bottom here I'm gonna give it some -- it's locked the transparency. And not get this nice yellow here. For my foreground color of for the background color on that this kind of -- orange here. In fact it -- will be even deeper there. And what -- gradient tool set to even agree and I'll throw little gradient right inside there like that. It's kind of like a burning color and it's gonna look textures to go into texture and used packet you're. And on top there which is gonna get this nice have a texture like that movie that -- click okay and arrogant little shape to. Now going to create the actual five. When in back of one -- here. Bring it up here. Let's take the right one there you go bring it right up here. And the built in I'm gonna start with only words from left or right so when I -- to do is I'm gonna just give this a little rotation. -- as they rotate clockwise ninety. Degrees and put right off the side here like this. And the filter I'm going to use is they kind of a weird filtered and give them to stylized. Cold wind. And wind is gonna give me these nice little hairs analysts say from left haven't shoot out and created these little here's the end of the -- letters. I had no idea command F. Controlled a fun. PC and do one more time -- now I have three of okay so let duplicate that layer -- I don't need for something else later and let's turn off to one on top. And one that. First when we created there and rotated back into position so rotated counterclockwise. To give me that. Now. I'm gonna have the color rises at one point to make it look like fire. So white can not be color -- Kate white in RGB is all call. Right now it's just right so I can't add any confidence. Grey's will allow me to go in there and polarized so I'm gonna -- this whole thing gauzy blur. Just a little bit not too much about like that that's good. Two point four click okay. I remembered that setting -- pixels so two point four isn't. A formulas say depends on the resolution of the file you're working on these files and they work on garrison considered to be PI. So if you're gonna 300 PPI file two point four might not be enough. -- And right now bitches grave going to transparent but I'm gonna do to add a little more time on their I'm gonna create a layer behind this later. And fill that there -- black. That layer and I'm gonna take that a text. That I've blurred and merge down. Into that -- That I created with black now I have this white going to black those strays and can be polarized but before I call Verizon let's make him look more like five. That would just select this little area that kind of concentrate my idea affect -- go to the filter and liquefy. And liquefy I can go in here and start playing around with this it's get a little -- we see what's gonna happen here. And I get my what -- tool here and let's get smaller brush. And and a very lightly just kind of you're a couple of hits like that that's a very rough which is going in their interest kind of pulling out little tones to -- like that. Have to be too neat effect you can see I'm doing very quickly here. The quicker the -- becomes. Intuitive slowly starts to become too neat and -- isn't very neat. Kate kind of messy thing sister a couple of more points here and there. -- though and -- the stuff happening great we kind of mess around with of higher ones there as well. All the stuff going that's good enough. That's like that. -- click okay and we have that little effect happen. So now. I can -- select that and want to do is I'm going to go in and out color crisis. In that -- I bring up my hue saturation controls and I'll say color rise. And I pushed a saturation all the way up and bring this over to somewhere around. Oh about forty -- that pushed a saturation I got this really nice tone happening there. I click okay. Take that layer. And -- duplicated on itself. I got -- And the second one I'm gonna go in there and go to my hue saturation again and -- somehow has polarized but I will move my hue slider down to a out of my anus. Or let's say about a minus twenty. At about their minds nineteen got to work pushed -- saturation up again. That if you happen there now what I'm doing going to take that they -- put in an -- over the one below. -- put an overlay mode now we start to see the fire happened. So don't take those two layers are gonna go ahead emerged that down that are working together and put that they -- in screen mode. Scream always gonna allow me to see the other layers beneath it and in fact let's put this one behind it and then move it down into position behind -- the others. Right there. Now the letters are starting to -- by. So we have fire what are we need now we need smoke. Remember this guy I created that the second set and let it go into that and apply that stylized -- the one more time. Okay it makes you in the right there. That's that one. Let's do that again who goes style i.'s wind. Analysts say do it again and has sued again one more to get these long shapes. Going there and rotate that -- before rotated back. And bring that into position right above the whole thing like that and -- It did before you gauzy blur but this top learn a little more let's go with a whole three. Click okay. And to say before I'm gonna create a layer behind it. And there were black. And what's gonna happen in emerged just put together merge down. And go into liquefied again. Now really gonna play with this and they're gonna nice big rush to really big brush. I that and then really."

" Push these guys up -- to us. It's very gravely and kind of new ceased to start pushing everything else they start forming -- it doesn't matter that's what kind of smoke does. Okay so do all those kind of stuff like that push them up and -- do a couple things like a little demo right here we'll promote it in that area and maybe a little pinch. It's gonna do little pinch right -- the floor area pension there and then work that out some more there ago at all the stuff happen like that. Click okay. And it starts to happen. And wait for that to happen more complex to -- the longer it takes both happen now is I'm creating all this nice and small it's traveling up. And tomorrow seen. Now the smoke doesn't just have group rooms when it starts hitting the air its first puff up its us to break up. So here's what we're gonna do now put this layer and screen note. I think that's actually Matt has Allen a race. With a nice big soft the racer and -- raced down here to soften up the common racing just the parts of the covering the letters to have all of stuff happening there. On top of this whole mess and create one more layer and I got black and white as my foreground and background colors and applied a filter. Render clouds and hold down my option alt key. And applied it. I -- that modify key I got a really strong contrast the clouds. Which are not going to set that in to screen mode so only the like -- tones -- showing through and I'm gonna scale that up. It's gone Nancy scare -- and it's is bring this right up into this area right up there like that. Let that happen and that would better racer I'm just gonna soften up those hard edges where the smoke is meeting. The edge and there's a little soft -- stuff at the top. Today we have the fire and the smoke that goes would. Remember it's not the end result is how I got that point it's important. All these different techniques can be applied with slight modifications here and -- to create something totally different. Hope you learned something from that remember the play. That's the best way to learn Photoshop. This is something you can't figure out on your own something you've been stuck with him trying to. Figure out how to do its thing send me an email sent the bird and revision3.com. And not try to do for you here -- show. On tonight's show. Have a good time CNN."

" It's."

" Hi welcome to another episode pixel perfect would -- show -- show you all kinds of cool stuff with Photoshop and today I'm to a request. Why request lot of people estimates. -- How to do fire in Photoshop actually did a long time ago of the two. Little loved Christmas card in -- on the screen savers and move fireplace -- a fire going up. This talent take my time and explain it. Explain what's going on exactly. Do some fire. And it might do a lot file just plain white does Gingrich I'm gonna -- And make it black. And -- white. I'm gonna type in the word. By. And this is different font this is something -- will serve to make go -- times here. Times bowl that's good there's my little text. -- Now I know it's spelt right so right off the bat I'm going to do is go in there and a dual layer -- rise of type. Turning it into actual pixels. -- As -- on top here. One on the bottom here I'm gonna give it some -- it's locked the transparency. And not get this nice yellow here. For my foreground color of for the background color on that this kind of -- orange here. In fact it -- will be even deeper there. And what -- gradient tool set to even agree and I'll throw little gradient right inside there like that. It's kind of like a burning color and it's gonna look textures to go into texture and used packet you're. And on top there which is gonna get this nice have a texture like that movie that -- click okay and arrogant little shape to. Now going to create the actual five. When in back of one -- here. Bring it up here. Let's take the right one there you go bring it right up here. And the built in I'm gonna start with only words from left or right so when I -- to do is I'm gonna just give this a little rotation. -- as they rotate clockwise ninety. Degrees and put right off the side here like this. And the filter I'm going to use is they kind of a weird filtered and give them to stylized. Cold wind. And wind is gonna give me these nice little hairs analysts say from left haven't shoot out and created these little here's the end of the -- letters. I had no idea command F. Controlled a fun. PC and do one more time -- now I have three of okay so let duplicate that layer -- I don't need for something else later and let's turn off to one on top. And one that. First when we created there and rotated back into position so rotated counterclockwise. To give me that. Now. I'm gonna have the color rises at one point to make it look like fire. So white can not be color -- Kate white in RGB is all call. Right now it's just right so I can't add any confidence. Grey's will allow me to go in there and polarized so I'm gonna -- this whole thing gauzy blur. Just a little bit not too much about like that that's good. Two point four click okay. I remembered that setting -- pixels so two point four isn't. A formulas say depends on the resolution of the file you're working on these files and they work on garrison considered to be PI. So if you're gonna 300 PPI file two point four might not be enough. -- And right now bitches grave going to transparent but I'm gonna do to add a little more time on their I'm gonna create a layer behind this later. And fill that there -- black. That layer and I'm gonna take that a text. That I've blurred and merge down. Into that -- That I created with black now I have this white going to black those strays and can be polarized but before I call Verizon let's make him look more like five. That would just select this little area that kind of concentrate my idea affect -- go to the filter and liquefy. And liquefy I can go in here and start playing around with this it's get a little -- we see what's gonna happen here. And I get my what -- tool here and let's get smaller brush. And and a very lightly just kind of you're a couple of hits like that that's a very rough which is going in their interest kind of pulling out little tones to -- like that. Have to be too neat effect you can see I'm doing very quickly here. The quicker the -- becomes. Intuitive slowly starts to become too neat and -- isn't very neat. Kate kind of messy thing sister a couple of more points here and there. -- though and -- the stuff happening great we kind of mess around with of higher ones there as well. All the stuff going that's good enough. That's like that. -- click okay and we have that little effect happen. So now. I can -- select that and want to do is I'm going to go in and out color crisis. In that -- I bring up my hue saturation controls and I'll say color rise. And I pushed a saturation all the way up and bring this over to somewhere around. Oh about forty -- that pushed a saturation I got this really nice tone happening there. I click okay. Take that layer. And -- duplicated on itself. I got -- And the second one I'm gonna go in there and go to my hue saturation again and -- somehow has polarized but I will move my hue slider down to a out of my anus. Or let's say about a minus twenty. At about their minds nineteen got to work pushed -- saturation up again. That if you happen there now what I'm doing going to take that they -- put in an -- over the one below. -- put an overlay mode now we start to see the fire happened. So don't take those two layers are gonna go ahead emerged that down that are working together and put that they -- in screen mode. Scream always gonna allow me to see the other layers beneath it and in fact let's put this one behind it and then move it down into position behind -- the others. Right there. Now the letters are starting to -- by. So we have fire what are we need now we need smoke. Remember this guy I created that the second set and let it go into that and apply that stylized -- the one more time. Okay it makes you in the right there. That's that one. Let's do that again who goes style i.'s wind. Analysts say do it again and has sued again one more to get these long shapes. Going there and rotate that -- before rotated back. And bring that into position right above the whole thing like that and -- It did before you gauzy blur but this top learn a little more let's go with a whole three. Click okay. And to say before I'm gonna create a layer behind it. And there were black. And what's gonna happen in emerged just put together merge down. And go into liquefied again. Now really gonna play with this and they're gonna nice big rush to really big brush. I that and then really."

" Push these guys up -- to us. It's very gravely and kind of new ceased to start pushing everything else they start forming -- it doesn't matter that's what kind of smoke does. Okay so do all those kind of stuff like that push them up and -- do a couple things like a little demo right here we'll promote it in that area and maybe a little pinch. It's gonna do little pinch right -- the floor area pension there and then work that out some more there ago at all the stuff happen like that. Click okay. And it starts to happen. And wait for that to happen more complex to -- the longer it takes both happen now is I'm creating all this nice and small it's traveling up. And tomorrow seen. Now the smoke doesn't just have group rooms when it starts hitting the air its first puff up its us to break up. So here's what we're gonna do now put this layer and screen note. I think that's actually Matt has Allen a race. With a nice big soft the racer and -- raced down here to soften up the common racing just the parts of the covering the letters to have all of stuff happening there. On top of this whole mess and create one more layer and I got black and white as my foreground and background colors and applied a filter. Render clouds and hold down my option alt key. And applied it. I -- that modify key I got a really strong contrast the clouds. Which are not going to set that in to screen mode so only the like -- tones -- showing through and I'm gonna scale that up. It's gone Nancy scare -- and it's is bring this right up into this area right up there like that. Let that happen and that would better racer I'm just gonna soften up those hard edges where the smoke is meeting. The edge and there's a little soft -- stuff at the top. Today we have the fire and the smoke that goes would. Remember it's not the end result is how I got that point it's important. All these different techniques can be applied with slight modifications here and -- to create something totally different. Hope you learned something from that remember the play. That's the best way to learn Photoshop. This is something you can't figure out on your own something you've been stuck with him trying to. Figure out how to do its thing send me an email sent the bird and revision3.com. And not try to do for you here -- show. On tonight's show. Have a good time CNN."