11 Smoke and Fire Brushes

I always wanted to have a simple way to create some fire effects in photoshop. Using pictures of real fire somehow often did not end up how I wanted it, also taking good pictures of fire is also not that easy. I thought about how I could do it, and I got the idea when I would color smoke like fire this should end up pretty neat. So I did a lot of pictures of smoke, changed them into photoshop brushes and tweaked the layer styles to a color which ended up quite close to fire. I want to share with you these brushes, I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. : 11 high resolution photoshop brushes. The package includes styles which can be used to create a nice fire effect with the brushes. - For Photoshop / Gimp 2.4 Brushes - created with Photoshop CS3 - High Resolution 1000 - 2500px - Included fire styles works only with Photoshop, Gimp see below This brushes are useful to: - To put some extra smoke on cigarettes - As a background decoration - Using them on pictures which have some magical or fantasy topic - creating fire effects Fire Effect with Gimp If you want a fire effect with Gimp you can do the following: 1. Create a layer filled with black and use the smoke brush on it 2. Open the Gradients Windows Dockable Dialogs Gradients 3. Choose the flame-ish gradient "Incandescent" 4. While the layer with the smoke brush on it is selected, use "Colors Map Gradient Map"