We have another Psd Plus tutorial exclusively available to Plus members today. If you want to take your photo manipulation skills to the next level, then we have a great tutorial for you. Learn how to add add flames and smoke to a building - make it burn. Once you know this core technique, you can use it elsewhere in your work. Learn more at the jump!
Professional Workflow for Adding Smoking Fire to a Building – Psd Plus Tutorial
Oct 21st in News by Tomasz OpasinskiThis Plus Tutorial is Filled with Creative Techniques
For quite some time I've been thinking about simplifying my everyday tasks in Photoshop. Over the years I have collected tons of different techniques… here is one of them. In this tutorial I'm going to show how to "burn an apartment" building in a few easy steps.
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Professional and Detailed Instructions Inside
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User Comments
( ADD YOURS )Rafael Braga October 21st
Pretty nice … I thought that didn’t look so real … but I still think that is a great job.
I’ll try for sure . thank you …
( )Punane November 2nd
Shaddaap!
( )SvenZy October 21st
Very nice
( )Isis October 21st
I love Opasinski tutorials, I’d like to have a Plus membership now…=)
( )Mvga5 October 21st
Parabéns cara.. representando o BRASIL, repito: Parabéns!
você é muito bom no que faz..
pena que esse tuto não esteja disponível para membros ‘free’ \=
Abraços
( )Borja October 21st
Hi!
Do you know which version of Ps I need to do this kind of tutorial?
Can I use cs3 or I need cs4?
Thanks!
( )André October 21st
Finally something good, again, at PSDTUTS.
( )Alvaro October 21st
Looks so real, gotta try this
( )Aevion October 21st
It doesn’t even look all that hard to make, but it looks great.
( )Tomasz October 21st
…that was exactly my point… make it look decent without struggle…
( )Sean Hodge October 21st
Tomasz has some great techniques in this tutorial. He’s got loads of techniques he’s built up over the years and I’m really excited to have him contributing to the site. Great job Tomasz!
I look forward to the next one. We’ll have another pro technique workflow from Tomasz next month as well for Psd Plus members.
Aevion October 21st
Congratulations my friend, you’ve succeeded!
jaredwilli October 21st
Wow that’s amazing. Nice tut.
I hope this comment shows up, since my comments on the pillow post aren’t :\
( )student 011 October 21st
yeah, I agree. lots of things look simple, but when it actually comes to doing it…it’s not. that’s the genius in Opasinski, he makes it look like it’s no big deal. I bet he gets big bucks for making things look like “easy.” well deserved!!!
( )Carlos October 21st
Looks worth a tuts membership, th only thing that looks dodgy is the smoke, it’s too transparent in my opinion, if you know what i mean.
Either way this looks good
Wish I had plus membership.
( )emmanuel Umukoro October 21st
i wish i had a plus tut now!
( )Luis Craik October 21st
wow really nice, keep it up and you’ll have me soon in your Plus-Tut data base
( )spiderm0nkey October 21st
Looks awesome! Once I start work next week I’ll have to subscribe for a few months to see what I’ve been missing out on!
( )Donald October 21st
It looks pretty real, and it works simply great.
( )Nicholas Cardot October 21st
I think this effect looks very realistic and I can’t wait to try it out on some buildings…like the building I work in. That would be a lot of fun.
( )Joe Warren October 22nd
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I have been looking for a good tutorial like this.. I finally find one and it is for plus members.. FML
( )Pitpistolet October 22nd
Wygląda na łódzką kamienice xD
( )ajir October 22nd
wow. cool!
( )g3niuz October 22nd
the result looks very realistic ;D
( )Web 2.0 October 22nd
Wow…that is very realistic, excellent tutorial. thanks!
( )PillowAddict October 22nd
Mine mine mine!!! My PILLOW! =))
( )PillowAddict October 22nd
LOOOOOOOOOL wrong topic hahaha sorry
)))
ps. thats because i`m relly addicted to that pillow! =))
( )Craigsnedeker October 22nd
Incredible
( )Emmnauel Barrientos Alvarez October 22nd
Exc!… thank´s! Apply!
( )Nesztler Thibaud October 22nd
Beautiful
( )Jeremy October 23rd
really impressive. great effect.
( )BogDinamita October 23rd
shouldn’t the smoke be black?!
( )aMs October 23rd
why black?
( )anonymous October 24th
Really nice tutorial but doesn’t seem like its a plus tutorial..
( )Ernest October 25th
VERY NICE WORK!
( )Photo Backgrounds October 27th
Great tutorial ! I’m a photographer and only just getting to grips with photoshop. I must keep practising !!
( )kat October 28th
I’d like to have a Plus membership :S
( )pravat October 30th
Cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool………………..
( )lksdf November 15th
Thanks homo
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