Ignite your creative fire with inspirational artwork and ideas. Jump off to tutorials that will teach you how to fire up your own work. Get your creative digital fire right here! And get it while its hot!
Digital Art
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Abstract Blaze Design
Blazedezignz put together a really cool abstract fire design in Photoshop. He points to tutorials on the net for how he figured out how to do this in Photoshop and says that its about 10 different image effects combined together. Looks great!
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Tremorwave’s Destruction
Depthcore is an awesome site to inspiration from. Take a look at the artist Tremorwave. Here it the quote he has in his profile “Give a man fire he will be warm for a day, set him on fire he will be warm for the rest of his life.”
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Damnengine
Ther is some hellacious imagery in this portfolio. Dennis Sibeijn’s portfolio has fiery infernos, demons, explosions, and such a wonderful dark style.
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Fire Portrait
Check out this stylized portrait with a hand in flames. It looks to me like the flames were added with screen applied to a flame picture shot against a dark background. Though the artist states that this was all accomplished with brushes. Lots of ways to accomplish similar techniques.
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Abstract Fire Design
While there is no actual fire in this design it does capture a feeling of fire. The colors and movement of the shapes of this piece gives you a different perspective on fire.
Tutorials
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Fire Lines Tutorial
This tutorial has some similar effects to Advanced Glow Effects here on PSDTUTS or Electrifying Energy Beams over at Luxa. This tutorial will show you how to add fire effects to your glowing line work.
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True Flames
This tutorial looks really easy to do and has a cool effect.
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Smokey Fire Letter
Video on making a letter catch fire in Photoshop. There is no sound, but you can follow along just fine. Each Photoshop step is shown as the artists creates the smokey flaming text.
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Semi-Realistic Fire
The effect in this tutorial doesn’t have the “Wow Factor,” but don’t rule it out because of that. The techniques presented in this tutorial are not as reliant on filters as some other effects. It starts off by drawing your flame effects. So, there is a lot of control with these techniques. In the hands of a great artist they could use these same techniques to make Realistic Fire rather than Semi-Realistic Fire. Its a good tutorial and work checking out.
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Intensive Eyes Filled with Fire
I was pulled in by this tutorial because it has a strong concept tied to the use of the effect. The ideas is someone is watching there house burn down and the image of the flames is in their eye. That’s a strong concept.
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Burning Wheels
While I think this tutorial lacks some realism its still cool. And it covers a popular topic. Placing fire on objects in motion, especially cars, is an advertising concept that’s been used many times with good results.
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Dark Book of Photoshop
The artists tend to spend a good deal of time designing their tutorials on Deviant art. Its a different approach. This tutorial covers a few techniques. The one on fire is really simple, but effective. It teaches you to use fire photos shot against black backgrounds (shot at night for example) to overlay your designs with a Screen blend mode placed on the layer.
Other Cool Stuff
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Flickr Group: The Shape of Fire
There are pictures of fire, people playing with fire, time lapse fire motion trail photography, and more. Group’s Message: “This group is dedicated to photographs of the many shapes that fire can take. Chaotic and beautiful, flames can imitate anything imaginable. Like lying on your back and picking out figures from clouds, your mind (and the ability of others to relate to it) are the limit.”
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Creative Fire
A fun flash portfolio site for Creative Fire. You have the option to Play it safe and follow traditional navigation. But the fun navigation option is: Play with Fire! With this option you get to use a red hot bottle of creative fire and shoot out the sauce at the different nav options. Cool concept and a fun way to navigate.
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Burning Man: Creative Fire in the Desert
This is a good article about the on the artistic and cultural significance of the Burning Man Festival from a personal perspective. Vivid descriptions of the venue. There is a small slideshow as well with photos from the 2003 festival.
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Light a Flame of Inspiration
In his article “What inspires you?” David Airey gives some of his sources of inspiration. He also references a group project at Inspiration Bit on this subject Group Project: Source of Inspiration. Some great comments on this post as well. Here is a part of the first comment “You’re right, there are so many things around us that can spark an inspiration flame, all we need is to capture, seize that moment – ‘carpe diem’ and realize it in our work.” If your interested in the firing up your inspiration visit the article below.
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fair few typos here.
Great links here…really good at finding the best!
Hey, very cool stuff you’ve posted there, especially the fire line tutorial.
Lol, you messed me up on getting to this page cause it looks almost identical to the homepage. I kept clicking it thinking it wouldn’t load.
Great Inspiration! Sure has inspired me to start a new project!
Thanks Guys! Keep Rocking!
@Cain: lol, I had the same problem. I don;t feel stupid anymore
Aloke Pillai
cool.. i knew many of them but thanks for the new ones..
WOW!
Thank you, PSDTUTS!
Great!
I was looking for it.
Thanks PSDTuts
great links
thank you 
Many of them were already on my bookmark list, but no doubt these make a great bundle of tuts
excellent! thanks
Hot stuff.
Sorry.
ah, nice =)
Very useful. We thank you.
Nice, som of them sucks :S
But i love the: Fire lines tutorial
Thanks for sharing
As others have mentioned, there are a couple typos. Most obvious being “Creative Fire” has the same heading as “Flickr Group: The Shape of Fire”.
Either way, great collection. Hope to see more like this!
Hi Collis,
Thanks very much for the mention.
Great links again! Thanks.
Nice tutorials.
These resources are absolutely incredible. I use to shoot weddings until I myself got married and have kids, so weekends are incredibly valuable. I love these tuts and what they help me accomplish. Thanks again.
Sorry about the typos guys, that’s me putting up Sean’s post in a rush. In fact I even forgot to change the author from the default to Sean’s name
Sorry Sean!!
Nice resources for inspiration cheers. Couldn’t help feel though ‘Abstract Blaze Design’ was a little out of place in my opinion, especially compared to other works featured. As nice as the image was it appears to be nothing more than kai powertools ‘flame’ plugin at work with minor/if any post work in photoshop. I would be interested to see the tutorials which can create this effect without such plugin.
EXCELLENT GORGEUS BEAUTIFUL without words…..
Thanks for the mention, Collis. I was wondering what this traffic from psdtuts is all about
Didn’t even realize that you quoted me from my comment on David’s post.
Some very cool flames you’ve put together here.
i cant understand why when psdtuts went through all this trouble to gather an excellent source of links that people like above have to say “ooooo its good but i had them all before u”.. who cares if u already have these links.. i bet these are the types of people who would never share there bookmarks for fear of someone actually doing something better than they can.. anyway psdtuts.. i love your site!!
another Photoshop fire tutorial is here… quite easy but I hope usefull
http://www.photoshopguidesign.com/tutorials/realistic_fire_in_photoshop.html
Nice link list Sean, I’m glad you went with a specific theme instead of just listing some great PS graphic designers. Definitely bookmarked for the next time I need to get ‘fired up’. Pardon the pun, I had to – I was attracted to it like a moth to a… alright alright, I’ll stop. Thanks for the work Sean.
Cheers
Great article! Very useful tips here.
Very creative and very professional. great job
This post is so awesome! There so much!
I am noticing a pattern here about tutorials with flames.
wow u gays r doing great work.keep working like this and teach us some new lesson