The tutorial on alpha channels made my day when I watched it and I decided to re-take that learned skill and apply it to my own creative twist. In this image I took the fiery inspiration from the glowing gel fire thingy. I used the alpha channel extraction technique to get all these smoke elements then with my background set it was just a matter of taking my theme: Fire elemental and making my model absorb all that fiery energy. I started blending her into the background by using a layer mask and the diverse smoke elements I extracted previously. then I used those same smoke elements to overlay the background and make a more realistic fire effect. Once the fire was nicely laid out I went on to retouching. With the retouching complete I added some extra lights and shadows which I learned how to apply after watching the “dancing with the stars” tutorial. And to wrap things up I had to have a powerful accent text. I went on and found that the simplest fire symbol is a circle and that was great since it would contrast the piece perfectly. And to ad the last touch of salt I added that final lens flare effect on the top left again by extracting the light information from a lens flare how you taught on a previous tutorial. And there you go Alpha channel’s rock! They make masking so much fun and not only that you can save all your extractions as custom brushes so you can re-use them over and over again. Thanks for such great tutorials Corey.

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1. First runner-up of the June 24th, 2009 Contest: Fire Elemental « photoshop tutorials Pingback on — July 25, 2009 @ 11:07 pm

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