Ferlin

I just completed the Playing with fire tutorial - without the text- and it came out alright in black but when I try to drag the fire to another daylight picture I have the black outlines around the fire. Of course, this is obvious you're gonna have this problem when you cut out the fire and move it. Is there a effective way of erasing or blending out the black ( it's so subtle it seems impossible) and getting just the fire. I've tried layer masks with different opacities on my brush and i've also used gradients with layer masks and G blur. I don't know. maybe the best way to do it is to just paint the fire on a seperate layers and go with blend modes and liquify. Hmmm. then there is the smoke..Also I tried it the tute way setting it to screen in a different background and wasn't happy with that. Would appreciate any suggestions. Ferlin

Hatch

Hi Ferlin,

Give the extract filter a try, here is a video I made if you are not to familar with the extract filter. The flames you see took about 15 seconds to show the example...still a little black but... if you take your time you should be able to produce the effect you are looking for. Hope this helps, Hatch. [righton]



The video... 6mb filehttp://www.psxtras.com/WZ2K Extract Filter.rar

You will need WinRAR to extract and QuickTime to view the video.

(PSD) Sergiy

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Ferlin

Thanks Hatch! I can't see the video but I will check out the extract filter. Never used it before. Ill play around with it till I get it right.
Nice flames Sergiy! They have a nice fluid quility that tell me you used another tool besides the liquify filter. Am I right? Now lets see you put them out in the daylight. C'mon I dare you.

(then I can check out how you do it)

Hatch

Hello :-)

You will need to view the movies with the QuickTime player.
Some of the older videos were posted using the windows media player.

If you see".mov" that is QuickTime

Official QuickTime PLayer http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

Here is a couple of other players I enjoy, give them a try, might find them useful. :-)
BSplayer http://www.bsplayer.org
QuickTime Alternative http://fileforum.betanews.com/detai...?fid=1049831315
Real Player Alternative http://fileforum.betanews.com/detai...?fid=1054136293

(PSD) Sergiy

Olmost right... I used eye Candy.

(PSD) Sergiy

http://www.photoshopgurus.info/forum...pic.php?t=4794

dsehmby

I like those swirls you did with eye candy. I should look into that one or similar. I never could decide on one. I totally love seeing the effects happen like magic when I press this or that button though. I'm torn between techno-geek and doing it the hard way. I suppose my thinking is that using prefab I'm really standing still. Not too long ago I did Mark's (the PSG) bevels tutorial realizing for the first time that edges and bevels don't have to be all soft and blurry. Quite a revelation since I didn't know how to make bevels and had relied on styles I got who knows where. Cheesy stuff once I learned myself.

Anyway, the eye candy thing, seems popular, I'll tinker with it I'm sure. Have you used the filters back when PS hadn't been around much? I can't remember the name but I read that they were really great filters even today. stefan.

dsehmby

Hatch have you been using the replacement for real player? I hate the real player. I keep it mostly locked up and in chains. I can't get rid of the thing because I have too much music in rm format. Finding a a replacement would be just great. stefan.

retired_paddza

Two words: Blend If

Some more words :

If you take the image over onto the new "daylight" image, split and mess with the blend if sliders in your fire layer, you can often quickly remove black matting. Multiple blend mode sometimes works for certain images, but for fire, I find it takes too much of the color out. Blend If is your friend.