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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

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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56 Comments

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

    Very nice. I love it.

  2. Nicole said on — September 12, 2008 @ 4:11 pm

    Thank you for posting this! It was definitely the coolest thing I learned at PSW :)

  3. M.K.Andersson said on — September 12, 2008 @ 5:19 pm

    Very cool. Im gonna test it out right now

  4. 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.

  5. Blake_Gates said on — September 12, 2008 @ 8:47 pm

    Very nice Corey. Looks good… Gonna go and try it right now.

  6. Michael said on — September 13, 2008 @ 3:08 am

    Amazing tutorial as allways, i have learned so much from you about photoshop !

  7. surulivel said on — September 13, 2008 @ 3:47 am

    good work

  8. Mojero said on — September 13, 2008 @ 6:32 am

    Excellent effect. I can see many uses of this effect. Thanks for sharing. vmc

  9. HansR. said on — September 13, 2008 @ 7:39 am

    love your work, keep up the good work!

  10. Steve said on — September 13, 2008 @ 3:02 pm

    Where do you get these great photos and renders for this stuff. Nice tut.

  11. 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.

  12. 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 :)

  13. 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!

  14. 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

  15. Paul said on — September 14, 2008 @ 10:32 am

    very cool

  16. 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

  17. shamel said on — September 15, 2008 @ 11:06 am

    off the hook. i can use this

  18. Kristel said on — September 15, 2008 @ 1:01 pm

    Really Cool!
    And very helpfull, Thanks!! :D

  19. Alexander said on — September 15, 2008 @ 3:23 pm

    wow

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

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

    http://www.photoshopuser.com/members/portfolios/view/image/142942

  21. 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!

  22. marcos padilla said on — September 16, 2008 @ 2:33 am

    excellent, wonderful. ……………………….i really love it
    thanks from mexico

  23. KidLizard said on — September 16, 2008 @ 8:52 am

    Sweet, Thank You very much for the lesson Corey.

  24. JASON said on — September 16, 2008 @ 9:24 am

    Love it

  25. DK said on — September 16, 2008 @ 12:32 pm

    Awesome! You rock man!

  26. Azeem said on — September 17, 2008 @ 4:27 am

    OMG u r genius man simply the best

  27. 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.

  28. rachel said on — September 17, 2008 @ 3:59 pm

    wow, thats amazing ^.^

  29. rinto said on — September 19, 2008 @ 3:30 am

    brilliant wrk!!!!!

  30. 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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  32. santosh said on — September 19, 2008 @ 10:24 am

    i cant SaY woW,.,.,.!!

  33. Nikhil said on — September 21, 2008 @ 12:45 pm

    This is a great thing!!

  34. 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

  35. Computer said on — September 23, 2008 @ 1:01 am

    excellent !

    thanks a lot

  36. jps said on — September 25, 2008 @ 12:16 pm

    I like this….really very simple and wonderfull. ;)

  37. 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.

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

    Wow….. Now I am realise how powerfull photoshop is. By the way well done!

  39. Alvaro said on — September 30, 2008 @ 1:42 am

    Corey is the best! Thank you

  40. 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

  41. gaston said on — October 1, 2008 @ 10:08 am

    It is amazing, I loved that horse. I will it tryed.
    Thanks corey
    all regards

  42. Hannah M said on — October 2, 2008 @ 8:53 pm

    You never cease to amaze me corey.

  43. Noor L said on — October 4, 2008 @ 2:28 pm

    Just simply awesome!
    Your tutorials are the best :)

  44. Bob said on — October 6, 2008 @ 8:31 am

    Is the “FIRE BRUSHES” tutorial available in print?

  45. Denis said on — October 7, 2008 @ 10:29 am

    Very nice tutorial, thanks!

  46. Howard Pinsky said on — October 9, 2008 @ 1:45 pm

    Very nice effect! Great stuff!

  47. 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

  48. 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!

  49. JorDan said on — October 27, 2008 @ 8:24 pm

    I love this!! do u prefer adobe photoshop 6.0 or photoshop CS3/CS4??

  50. Katie said on — October 30, 2008 @ 9:32 am

    Best tutorial I’ve seen!!! Thank you, sir!!! :D

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  53. 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?

  54. Matthew said on — November 27, 2008 @ 7:12 am

    wow, cleaver and beautifull.

  55. Zero Thompson said on — November 28, 2008 @ 11:47 am

    You are a genious. Great tutorial!

  56. joshua boyd said on — December 1, 2008 @ 12:06 pm

    thank guy, you help pass a class

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