Fire Brushes

After creating a brush pattern from a stock image of a horse, Corey applies a layer style consisting of outer and inner glows with a hard light blend mode to create the flame effects.

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

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82 Comments

Jeff Siwik said on — September 12, 2008 @ 3:46 pm

Very nice. I love it.
Nicole said on — September 12, 2008 @ 4:11 pm

Thank you for posting this! It was definitely the coolest thing I learned at PSW
M.K.Andersson said on — September 12, 2008 @ 5:19 pm

Very cool. Im gonna test it out right now
Tim said on — September 12, 2008 @ 7:28 pm

hey how did you get the picture of the horse or any pic into photoshop where you could select it with that rectangular tool.
Blake_Gates said on — September 12, 2008 @ 8:47 pm

Very nice Corey. Looks good… Gonna go and try it right now.
Michael said on — September 13, 2008 @ 3:08 am

Amazing tutorial as allways, i have learned so much from you about photoshop !
surulivel said on — September 13, 2008 @ 3:47 am

good work
Mojero said on — September 13, 2008 @ 6:32 am

Excellent effect. I can see many uses of this effect. Thanks for sharing. vmc
HansR. said on — September 13, 2008 @ 7:39 am

love your work, keep up the good work!
Steve said on — September 13, 2008 @ 3:02 pm

Where do you get these great photos and renders for this stuff. Nice tut.
Adriano Lundquist said on — September 13, 2008 @ 6:44 pm

Hello friend, I am Brazilian, I understand very little of English, but their classes are expetaculares video! learned quite there. Thank you for teaching.
AHMAD said on — September 13, 2008 @ 6:59 pm

No Comment, simply you are amazing, and thank you for every thing, god bless you man,
KEEP GOING
rosie said on — September 13, 2008 @ 10:22 pm

this is really cool! i’m following all your instructions, even using the same picture and exact same colors for the outer and inner glow, but my horse is extremely red, and not firey looking at all. when i do the layer mask, it just selects the whole thing and darkens everything. can anyone figure out what i’m doing wrong?

thanks in advance, and thanks corey for all yout tutorials!
Byron said on — September 13, 2008 @ 10:51 pm

I’m having a problem when it comes to deleting the bruch mark after adding the the inner and outer glows the layer background goes to black unlike yours stays white transparent
Paul said on — September 14, 2008 @ 10:32 am

very cool
john said on — September 15, 2008 @ 9:58 am

great tutorials you’ve got, its really a big help.

please post more of these tips and thank you for sharing
shamel said on — September 15, 2008 @ 11:06 am

off the hook. i can use this
Kristel said on — September 15, 2008 @ 1:01 pm

Really Cool!
And very helpfull, Thanks!!
Alexander said on — September 15, 2008 @ 3:23 pm

wow
Temple Hill said on — September 15, 2008 @ 9:26 pm

Totally awesome! You rock laddie!!!!!!!!

http://www.photoshopuser.com/members/portfolios/view/image/142942
Greg Snowden said on — September 15, 2008 @ 11:41 pm

Hey Corey,
Way cool effect. It amazes me the neat effects you create with only a few simple actions!
marcos padilla said on — September 16, 2008 @ 2:33 am

excellent, wonderful. ……………………….i really love it
thanks from mexico
KidLizard said on — September 16, 2008 @ 8:52 am

Sweet, Thank You very much for the lesson Corey.
JASON said on — September 16, 2008 @ 9:24 am

Love it
DK said on — September 16, 2008 @ 12:32 pm

Awesome! You rock man!
Azeem said on — September 17, 2008 @ 4:27 am

OMG u r genius man simply the best
Bob said on — September 17, 2008 @ 3:53 pm

CB,
Luv’d it! I used this immediately on a project …thanks. When can we expect more dvd’s and books from u?
B.
rachel said on — September 17, 2008 @ 3:59 pm

wow, thats amazing ^.^
rinto said on — September 19, 2008 @ 3:30 am

brilliant wrk!!!!!
Tessa said on — September 19, 2008 @ 5:35 am

Rosie, make sure you have the blending mode set correctly when you apply the layer styles. Then when you use the brush click 2 or 3 times in the same spot to intensify the image, play around with what works best for you… I had the same problem to start!

Corey… brilliance.
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santosh said on — September 19, 2008 @ 10:24 am

i cant SaY woW,.,.,.!!
Nikhil said on — September 21, 2008 @ 12:45 pm

This is a great thing!!
Márcio Guerra said on — September 21, 2008 @ 6:41 pm

Nice one, again, Corey! Well, I am still a poor moneyless guy, so I couldn’t afford to go to Photoshop World, but, hey, if you tough this one there, it is a penny I saved! Thank you very much, and, from this, I picked it up and wen’t straight to my girlfriend helping her doing it also… Quite, quite, quite nice…!
Thanks
Hope to see you on next tutorial, which, I believe, is already done, the one with the vector mask! See ya, man! And thanks again!

Márcio Guerra
Computer said on — September 23, 2008 @ 1:01 am

excellent !

thanks a lot
jps said on — September 25, 2008 @ 12:16 pm

I like this….really very simple and wonderfull.
Susie said on — September 26, 2008 @ 6:37 am

Totally awesome!

Your videos leave me breathless, they are so good! Your skills are amazing Corey!

I’m definitely going to be watching it many more times…

Thank you.
AHMAD said on — September 26, 2008 @ 6:35 pm

Wow….. Now I am realise how powerfull photoshop is. By the way well done!
Alvaro said on — September 30, 2008 @ 1:42 am

Corey is the best! Thank you
tasha said on — October 1, 2008 @ 10:08 am

its nice but its really confusing to me!
i think i would need it to be more layed out and easyer to understand!
thanks bunches
gaston said on — October 1, 2008 @ 10:08 am

It is amazing, I loved that horse. I will it tryed.
Thanks corey
all regards
Hannah M said on — October 2, 2008 @ 8:53 pm

You never cease to amaze me corey.
Noor L said on — October 4, 2008 @ 2:28 pm

Just simply awesome!
Your tutorials are the best
Bob said on — October 6, 2008 @ 8:31 am

Is the “FIRE BRUSHES” tutorial available in print?
Denis said on — October 7, 2008 @ 10:29 am

Very nice tutorial, thanks!
Howard Pinsky said on — October 9, 2008 @ 1:45 pm

Very nice effect! Great stuff!
willing-to-know said on — October 19, 2008 @ 11:44 am

you’ve done something i’ve always tried to do and now i know how. thank you for the excellent tutorials
teddY said on — October 20, 2008 @ 1:59 pm

Wow this is simply awesome! The idea of deleting the contents of a layer while keeping the layer styles intact saves me the trouble of copying and pasting layer styles onto a new layer. Plus, I’ve never knew glow works so well to create a fiery effect!

Thanks for sharing!
JorDan said on — October 27, 2008 @ 8:24 pm

I love this!! do u prefer adobe photoshop 6.0 or photoshop CS3/CS4??
Katie said on — October 30, 2008 @ 9:32 am

Best tutorial I’ve seen!!! Thank you, sir!!!
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hardi said on — November 18, 2008 @ 2:37 pm

sorry can you help me if i do all that and i want to put this brush it says that i dont have enough memory (ram) is that thinking on my computer ram memory or photoshop memory?
Matthew said on — November 27, 2008 @ 7:12 am

wow, cleaver and beautifull.
Zero Thompson said on — November 28, 2008 @ 11:47 am

You are a genious. Great tutorial!
joshua boyd said on — December 1, 2008 @ 12:06 pm

thank guy, you help pass a class
!)iRtY_13 said on — December 6, 2008 @ 11:00 pm

wow how can i d/l thes tuts ?? i mod games i pant cars in pc race games and i love thes tuts i ues this 1 all the time 2 make flames on the paint/skins of the cars

denver co
saying
thx
Guilherme said on — December 7, 2008 @ 12:51 am

Simple and Good… Thanks!
parthi said on — December 13, 2008 @ 2:16 am

Nice explaination & fentastic effect………Thanking you…
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Habib Ahmed said on — February 3, 2009 @ 5:45 am

Its really awesome tutorial, thanks for ur innovative idea
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W.L.S. said on — February 4, 2009 @ 1:20 am

Wow thanks for sharing this tip I will try to master this & use it in my digital art work A++
ifaux said on — February 4, 2009 @ 9:01 pm

Anyone know where to get the image of the horse?
vinzal said on — February 6, 2009 @ 2:16 am

thx for sharing! its realy useful in designing!! great dude!
TonyBarrio said on — February 12, 2009 @ 5:40 pm

This is cool!
Rashidi said on — March 3, 2009 @ 11:02 pm

Simply amazing i tried it with a picture from myself looked pretty cool XD
jack ostro said on — March 19, 2009 @ 4:55 pm

FANTASTIC thanks again
Larry Singh said on — April 1, 2009 @ 1:53 am

good
Jake said on — April 11, 2009 @ 9:45 pm

Vary Nice!
Kev Craven said on — April 22, 2009 @ 12:22 pm

Amazing!

Thanks so much you are fantastic at thinking these things up! – Where on earth do you start?
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Silentman said on — May 20, 2009 @ 3:34 am

Hi i was looking to play this from the main selection list on your blog, but the link is broken, so i’m watching this cashed version from google chase, i hope this tut doesn’t disappear, it’s a great tutorial
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andrew said on — June 16, 2009 @ 1:33 pm

Hey man i just find your site and i love in it, this tutorial is great thanks man
Chirag said on — June 17, 2009 @ 1:57 pm

I’ve always wanted to know how to make pictures look like they are on fire, but I never knew it was so simple! Thank you so much, you’re amazing!
Devin said on — June 24, 2009 @ 8:23 am

How do you get the gradient to become the colors…can’t figure it out
Jc0630 said on — July 28, 2009 @ 4:59 am

how about trying it with a man on fire. like Human torch or something like jessica alba in fantastic 4. half of the body is on fire and the other part is normal, or like a man holding a ball of fire?.. it’s really cool!!. Hope you can teach us that..
omonisha said on — August 5, 2009 @ 1:27 am

with this and the others i’m learning a lot. Thanks for allowing us to learn from here.
zach said on — August 26, 2009 @ 6:08 pm

Corey, is there a way to make someone or even a horse into Ice? I love this fire effect, and if you could turn someone into Ice with the same effect, could you show us? I cannot seem to figure it out.
Daniel said on — September 15, 2009 @ 10:06 am

Amazing! ! ! Great Tutorial…
Paul Silver said on — October 21, 2009 @ 11:56 am

Thanks for this great tutorial. It let me do this…
(with the able assistance of Redfield’s Fractalius)
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