Now THAT is an awesome tutorial!

Very impressive.

Great Job Fabio…I’ve seen this already in your site but this time was discussed detailed.

Very impressive! Fantastic job Fabio.

My clouds appear with the sharp edge from the lasso tool. I’m using CS1, should that matter?

muito foda

Amazing! Very unique indeed. It used many techniques I’ve never seen before. I love the result. Good show mate.

Haha, saw this on Abduzeedo this morning before it was published on here. Weird. Anyways, wicked tutorial. Good tips and tricks to know for the future.

Good tutorial, FYI, the final image (large version) goes to a 404 not found

Finally….awesome job

Brilliant! Simply brilliant…

@Dave: Thanks for the heads up, I’ve fixed that broken link!

And yeah, fantastic work from Zee!!!

Looks awesome, nice tutorial!

I second Will’s comment, my flames appear with the lassoo tool, and hide my O, what is the layer mode selection needed?

wow…good tutorial and awasome effect gret job man

Wow, amazing effect, i love that!

Awesome.Thanks 4the nice tutorial

Epic tutorial, thanks!

Nice!

I’d love to buy the PSD file, but $2.50 is way too expensive. I’d pay a buck for it, just like an iTunes mp3.

complicated procedure …
amazing results …
thanks for sharing …

Nike ad Created by http://hejz.com.

Great tutorial!! Keep em coming!

http://hejz.com/#folio/view:set=4,work=2

Direct link^

stunning, i was looking for this !! thank you so much for sharing !!

Very nice! When a I saw the image at the first time I thought: no, you can not to do that without some image of fire…
And then the surprise…you did!

Congratulations man!

wow. simply amazing. Guess I’ll have something to do once I get home

Fantastic!!!!!!!

Finally!!! I was waiting for your tut fabio!! Great job!! Awesome!!

Very slick. I like! Keep it up.

Hi mates !!

Thanks a lot for all those tutorials, they’re all absolutely amazing, thanks agains !!

For the Nike ad, i think its from this one : http://www.hejz.com/#folio/view:set=4,work=2

The designer is “The Hejz”, a strong polish designer.

Bye all

Great tutorial.. Like this site by the way

Cool.

You just made Digg homepage

expect tons of traffic

Wow, this is great. Thanks for this nice en clean tutorial

SPETTACOLO!!! Great job…. I’ve been experimenting a very similar effect for a work I’m doing but I was definetly missing the WARP tool!! Great tutorial, perfect moment, ncredible coincidence.

This is an excellent tutorial. Very nice.

Great tutorial. Thanks!

Will – try using a feather with your lasso

Great Job! I have just started using Photoshop and this is one of the better tutorials I’ve seen.

Very nice!

Very nice and pleasant effect. Exposed the power of Photoshop…. Interesting

Thanx, this is cool tutorial

Hi, its nice result but you have some mistakes tut…like you forgot note that after a lasso tool you use a Feather or what setting in filter you use. That”s little bit pity because finally the result may be different than yours.

Awesome effect,congratulations (:

you forgot to mention changing feather to something when using lasso

That looks awesome as usual, keep up the amazing work!

Great Effect, but I’m not capable of recreating this effect with your description.
Somehow you forgot to mention that you use some smooth selection insted of a normal one.

And: I don’t understand how Step 8 works. Could you (or somebody else) please describe it a little bit more detailed? That would be nice.

Typo:

Step 8

2 – Set the background color to light grey and the background to black;

One of those should be foreground, right?

@Arik, you are right, my mistake. Sorry about that.

can’t exactly get my fire to look as nice as yours…..but hey! i love it! i’m sure i’ll figure it out soon enough

Really nice work.

Really nice work.

I will soon start adding some tutorials. Need to get some things together and finish some work (freelancing) and I will start posting.

Thank you Collis for this great idea.

Wow, that is extremely interesting. I will definitely use this ASAP.

Something with the lasso selection is messed up. What were your refine edge settings? Also in the text part in illy you have the perspective being 131 in the screen shot but it is 160 in the actual effect. Also when you make the clouds for the fire on the letter O are we supposed to switch back to what and black color? (Shift+D)? I tried doing it seems like it missing a few steps or something. However, nice tut.

now THAT is tight.

awesomeness.

This is exactly what seperates this site from the rest. Never mind “scanlines” or “glossy Web 2.0 button” tutorials, this is what people should be learning, and teaching.

Congrats on such a brilliant tut!

Peace, Lance

Nice tut !!!
thnks for shared !

http://www.excentric-design.com/edwpaper.jpg

Holy!

fantastic

I love the style and concept.. but why is it TYPO? its like an object entering earths atmoshphr… (=’_'=) cool!

awesome tutorial!
very nice!

wow this is amazing. Simply stunning. Good job Fabio

Fantastic stuff! As usual…!

LONG LIVE FABIO!!!

This must be the most impressive tutorial on this great website

@ Collis
Unfortunately, there’s no way to write an email to you. I wanted to know whether you received my tutorial:
“How to carve a heart into a wood texture”
result: http://img507.imageshack.us/my.php?image=woodrf7.jpg

(I had some problems uploading my tutorial)

awesome effect. can’t say the same for the tut though. Not too noob-friendly, especially for someone like me. I wish the tut was a bit more detailed, like how the lasso + cloud effect was created. Mine has sharp edges while the one here looks like real smoke. Please make it a spoonfed tut.

So THAT’S how you make fire!

awesome

this tut is really frustrating. some steps were left out.

1) you can’t HOLD ALT while using the Filter menu.

2) when you create the clouds using the lasso tool you get hard edges

3) your work is gorgeous

Ok, i read the tutorial and was really impressed.. a really great piece of photoshop art.
Then i tried it step by step and there are 2 possible solutions:

1. I am stupid.
Kinda possible, but let’s say i am not.

2. The steps are poorly documented.
I’d really like to know if someone came up with a fire like yours.. (not the same obviously, but looking like).

I really appreciate this site cause it has some of the best tuts ever. This one was going to be my fav, but it is definitely one of the worst.

Wow this is so nice- This maybe helpful and useful. great job..

Instead of using the lasso tool, I created a seperate layer. With the brush tool on Airbrush, I “drew” the shape that he suggested we “lasso.” On a seperate layer, I Selected the airbrushed layer (Ctrl+that layer) and used that to render my clouds on the clouds layer. This gave me the effect that he got.

U know what this is a nice one two thumbs up for you fabio… share us more tutorials, u help more people here. Thanks

I like this site !

compliments! it’s fantastic!
thx

Very nice Tut….BUT

I can’t get it like even close looking like yours.

1. The clouds are just plain ugly (even with a feather of 50 pix)
2. The 3D bevel&extrude in Illustrator doesn’t come close to your “typo” (with exactly the same inputs as shown above in step 4)
3. My fire looks like a yellow blob…

please please please could someone clarify some steps cuz this is very nice material!

As is that polish designer…anyone who wonna write a tut from his design! Top notch work

thank you and greetings from Belgium, the land of witloof, bier and fritten.

at second step when creates clouds holding alt nobody can create clouds like that just with filter render and clouds . needs some other effect.i have tried 3 times but i have other results(i dont now too much english)

This is an excellent tutorial. Very nice.
thnks for shared !

Hi! I not speaking English, me comment: me parece un muy buen tutorial yo no hablo ingles tube que traducirlo pero como entendi en algunos comentarios algunos pasos faltan talves, bueno yo intente hacerlo pero cuando utilizo la erramienta lasso tool(L) y agrego las nuebes pues a la hora de deseleccionar las nubes quedan con los bordes duros y no suaves como aparece en el tutorial y no se como lograr eso y tambien menciona algo de mantener precionada la tecla Alt pero no da ningun resultado, espero me puedan ayudar con este paso y desde luego felicitarlos por este exelente tutorial… muy bueno…Thank

step 8 in general is hard to follow.
for step 8 what blending did you make it?

This is an awesome tutorial. I changed the text to Loraelyn and it worked very well. I also re-learned how to create a brush. Thank you so.

Regards, Evs

I love coming back in this website- It gives me interesting art of photoshop- good job

I always end up Stumbling on this site and I love it more each time. Great Tut!

wow, keep it coming, we’ll all be photoshop gurus in no time! =)

Excellent!

And the best: is seems not to be very difficult, i’ll try it later, thanks

just one simple question – why can’t i see the images, what might be the reasons??? thx for answers. i have the problem since the update…
anyway nice stuff even if i cant see the images …

actually nice site… and nice tuts. but this one isnt explained very well… some steps are not comprehensible (clouds, fireball…). I think it also depends on ur PS version… really nice effect, but the tutorial could be a lot better…

you missed quite a few steps out of how you created that, but thank you for trying.

Wow great tutorial I cant for the life of me make the fire that convincing but ill keep trying.

I have learned much from this site, and consider myself decent with most minor things in Photoshop–however–I know very little about Illustrator, and being used to photoshop makes it totally foreign to me. Are there any good websites for Illustrator that are as comprehensive and descriptive as this one? Or good books?

It is a very counter intuitive program to me after learning photoshop, so I’d like to find tips to get better at it.

Man, I love this site! its PSD Goldmine! lol

awesome!! 1

amazingeffect

Tutorial looks great but is easier said than followed. Something is up with Step #2. As others have mentioned, your cloud border is feathered but i get a solid line of rendered clouds vs. the soft feathered look you accomplished. I’m on CS3 and can’t seem to find the right combination.

I’ll attempt to re-produce using a gaussian blur and some finagling.

Thanks for taking the time to write this up though.

PS – I think $2.50 is a little expensive as well. $1 is pushing it but is within the estimated perceived value for a PSD file that your just going to copy layer styles from.

Can’t i just buy you a cup of Coffee like last time?

Edit: Found the ‘feather’ settings for the selection tool. (it’s on the toolbar in CS3).

Can you post what feather px you used for this effect?

Thanks.

After a lot of trying I think I finally figured out how to do the fire.
EXCELLENT TUT THANKS SO MUCH.

http://www.globalstudio.com/samples/firetest.jpg

@Chris: your image is really cool, congratulations…

Ah thanks man I had to take a lot of liberties with the tutorial but I think I kind of figured it out.

Nice…and good call showing the rulers in your screen shots.

Verrrry nice tutorial, love the outcome, I’m seriously getting to love this site!

I’m going to have to agree with lots of other people your gonna want to mention that you have to feather the selection of the clouds otherwise awesome tutorial!

Ok, So there are a lot a people trying to figure out how to get the clouds to look the same as in the tut.

If you use the pen tool to draw out your shapes instead of the lasso tool you will have some more control over what you can draw. After you draw your shapes you right click or control click for mac and a box comes up…you chose “make selection” then it will ask you how much you want to feather. You can’t go any higher than 250 px but the most you should need is 150 px anywhere between 100-130 px will work great.

Now the marching ants appear. Now run your filter-render-clouds. Don’t worry about holding the alt key down for this. Your rendered clouds should look way better, but there is still some touch ups that need to be done. The touch ups are a combination of or one of the following…brightness & contrast, levels, and curves. Each one gives you a little more control over what you are trying to do. These can all be found under Image-Adjustments.

Now just play around with your curves or whatever you want to use, I recommend curves it is a bit more complex esp. if you are new to PS. Either way you should see some fantastic clouds appear once you figure out the control.

A side note…if you are using a version of PS other than CS3 I will caution you when using the brightness & contrast adjustment. The CS3 controls for it are much better than in older versions. Older versions can blow out your image a lot easier.

Sorry for this being so long. I hope this is helpful to the ones that are looking for answers. Let me know.

It’s really AMAZING!!!! ++++++++

I dont have illustratior to make that kind of text can i do it with photoshop
or isnt that pretty

nice tut

can yo explain more the step 8 (i cant have the same fire)

for the step 2

i recomend use alt + ctrl + f (with feather 80 px and “no” anti -alias)

sorry my english is bad ( solo español) jejeje

chao

Wow! Beautiful! Thanks

yeah really cool but i dont have effect -> 3D where can i get that effect i use photoshop cs 2.9…thanks dude for best tut.

Extremely cool text effect dude! This is a really nice outcome!

I cant follow step 8 T_T I love this tutorial so I wanna do it but step 8 is too confusing please rewrite and give more screenies?

A W E S O M E. Thanks a lot.

In step eight when I do it it doesnt come out like the fire in the O its just a orange circle… I think you skipped some steps?

Im a newbie and am totally going to get onto this.!!! I love this website!

Someone that has done this please explain step 8 also tell me if you used mac photoshop like he did because im thinking only his photoshop will have that effect

use this link for the step 8

http://bwebi.com/water-spirit-drawing-fire.html

i guess i dont know

I’d really appreciate it if someone would be able to explain step 8 in a more detailed way. The tutorial is fantastic and up to that point I can do everything fine, but the fire has been impossible so far.

i tried it, without really following the steps. i tried to apply the basic things i caught in here. i am using ps6 and 7 only on windows.

i don’t find it awesome, but i’m getting there
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m159/getsumei56/comet.jpg

Wow, impressive tutorial. I love it!

A good tutorial but like the others, there seems to be a reliance on Illustrator. I hope this is not the start of a new trend. It would be nice to see tutorials that don’t require illustrator. Thanks

newbie stuck on lasso step -.- anyone can help me for detail ?

Thanks

This is the best tutorial ever! Thanks for putting it up.

I see some of you have problems with the hard edge of the lasso too… I decided, from the beginning of giving this a try, that it would be so much easier to just use quick masks. That is, those two buttons third from the bottom of your toolbox (Cs2). Just use a soft brush once you’re in quick mask mode, and mark the selections. Then click the button to get out of quick mode, right click in the image and select inverse selection. Then you can filter>render>clouds, and the cloud edges will be soft. Problem solved.

In Illustrator, I found that to get the text right, you need to use the “More Options” button in the Bevel window. Then play around with the lighting, both the intensity and angle.

Hey, i attempted this Tut because it looks absolutely amazing! I was discouraged though on the smoke, the lasso tool doesnt seem to be the right tool for the job because even with heavy feathering, the clouds have a sharp edge and they dont seem to sift or blend as they do in your image. If you can update it with a little more detailed instructions as to how you came about those smoke effects i think we would all appreciate it!

Great Effect!

koooooooooooooool

!!Wow!! its wonderfull. You are a master. congratulations.

A very nice finished result but the tutorial is very badly written, you seem to skip very important steps. I had to go thru it again doing what i thought would be best before it ended up like your end result.

Do as explained above with the pen tool. Works better than the lasso, I tried the lasso because the tut said to but seems in accurate.

Great Techniques.

As always, thanks for the great info!

ya pude me la pelo el tutorial jajaja

check

http://www.fotolog.com/pech123

Awesome tutorial, I like the effects.

Thanks.

It’s impossible create clouds holding ALT key….

wow…….awesome outcome man……that is just wicked…….

That is absolutely fantastic stuff!

Thanks for the tutorial!

Great Tutorial.
But Step 2 it disn’t work for me.
Clouds are always with sharp edges (selection, Alt-Key). Not that smooth like on the picture above.
Some idea what i make wrong.

man……..its awesome………..i tried to do something like this using pen tools….& it was pain in da neck………….gooood job!!!!!!!!

It’s a nice tutorial, but please remove step 12, it makes the fire look like crap. Looks way better without it. Anyway, good read!

Amazing result but your explanation isnt very good at all. The gradients i recreated down to a tee
werent that at all. Would be nice if you gave dimensions as blending option properties vary depending on scale.

Thanks though

Nice tutorial, And for people saying alt cant be used with filters.. hold down alt before you enter the filter menu.

Here’s a little try i made, nothing fancy. Had a meteor instead of the text.

http://hem.bredband.net/nazul/meteor.jpg

to bad web browsers doesn’t support Adobe RGB. Looks washed out in a browser.

Respect!!!!!!

Thanks for the tutorial!

i still cant figure out what to fix on step 8 i can do everything else…any help?

is the gob job my respect !!!!

Awesome effect and thanks for sharing BUT it’s a pain to follow the tut because you do not give any details such as the way you made the clouds, I had the same problem with it.

I couldn’t manage to have the same effect as you on the fire elements.You should give more explanations and more détails.

And by the way, the tut sens to bemissing some steps…

ooooooooo……i have see GODof hand of design on my Lord

Very nice tutorial but i cant get the 3d text in Illustrator how he did can you or someone else explain how to get that done in illustrator maybe the color of the text and the other options.

Nice effect

I agree with everyone’s enthusiasm when I say WOW. However, I also picked up on those missing details that a few others have mentioned. I’d consider myself very proficient in Photoshop and it was difficult filling in the gaps.

In Illustrator your screenshot did not show any of the ‘more options’ settings which MUST have been set to get the extruded text you used. Also the little things like the original dimension of your graphic also affect how the clouds filter renders. Small dimensions don’t get the kind of variation and detail necessary to resemble the fire in step 8. I’d recommend working on a big canvas for everyone having trouble with those steps.

I love this site and all the authors that contribute to it, much appreciation for all the hard work. I tell every designer I know about this great resource!

Amazing site and this tutorial is perfect!

hi very nice text effect overall i managed to get upto the part where i manipulate the last letter in the word which i am using, my last word being Y and i can not manipulate it correctly to get the desired effect i.e. the same as your effect it would be much better to be more thorough in explaining as from all the post above MANY people are having trouble understanding and following it. i decided to carry on anyway and then cudnt get step 12 to work as u said even though i followed the tutorial down to the word. i have been trying now for nearly 5 hours and have given up as i see no good quality version being reproduced by me. please could you assist me i would be most grateful…

a great effect just a pit i cant put it into practice and make use of the tutorial

Nice work on the tutorial, first time to the site, stumbled on it, gotta say I’m impressed! Keep up the sweet work..

Couple things to add, that might help the noobs, what resolution and size document you started with
(I set it at 300 at first, but it looks like you went more 72).
Also, you forget to mention you feathered the clouds so you don’t get the rough edge, so I upped my feather to 50px, (don’t know why you say hold alt). still going through the rest, but I still love it.

This is great. You can see the rawn power of Photoshop. I have some plugins which help me “3D-ize” the text, so no need for Illustrator or 3DSMax.

Imagine a space scene, with some planets and meteors. Damn, I think I’ll try a nice composition design using this tutorial as a starting point. It really gives me some ideas

Superb tutorial, as usual.

From step 6, I encountered some problems, I have a french photoshop version and I didn’t find the comparability for filter and fusion mode
- step 11 Filter > Sharpen > Sharp.?
- step 6 Linear Dodge
- step 14 color dodge
I all tryed , but its not same to this tuto.

For those with the sharp Lasso edges, you will need to set your feathering to something round 15px or higher. Adjust to your taste.

Great tutorial!

I made this one with my favorite nike sb dunks, jedi!

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/4130/spacejedihr5.jpg

Force!

Hey buddy I found the link for the Nike shoe ad that you were inspired by.

http://www.hejz.com/#folio/view:set=4,work=2

ciao!

WOW!!!

What version of Illustrator are you using? v10 Doesnt have the Extrude and Bevel option. So Im guessing tis a CD feature?

i must be missing something because when i create my clouds it looks horrible
they do not look natural at all they are out lined ann stand out how do i correct this?

even after feathering

you are amazing really !!!

hi!
does the size of document matters for this tutorial?
what measurement did you use?

WoW!! I’m going to try it right now..

nice and weird @ the same moment

3d effects in ps ..for me to strange by why not u

It’s been a great honor and pleasur for me to visit this site, you have amazing skills.

yea there has to be something you left out because im pretty good at PS and ic ant get mine to look like yours at all

I give up! It’s to hard for me to do!

Amazing! Fantastic! Great effect!

There are some large gaps, however, patience will prevail. I’m using CS2 for both PS and ILL and everything works just fine. He gives enough detail for the 3d text to be useful. I think this tut writer leaves a lot of room for personal preference. I’m still working on the dust and particles….However, patience paid off for me for the fire…it looks amazing….

one word WOW – this is truely amazing and worth the effort if u struggled with this one just keep going cause the end effefts are amazing. i salute thee

Круто получилось! Молодец………………..

exselente aunque no entendi muxo el idioma me fui guiando solo x los dibujos y lo pude hacer fue genial y me qedo genia tambn…..

Hi
I’m trying to copy this, but I’m already stuck at Step 2.
Im using CS3 on a Vista laptop. When i’ve got the area selected with the Lasso Tool, and then trying to put clouds in it, it is totally screwed. By pressing ALT, I dont have a clue when, or whatsoever, because by pressing ALT it closes the menu so I can’t click on clouds.. :S

Someone any ideas? Because It looks very ver nice, and i really want to know this!
thanks in advance!

Ok, solved the problem with the clouds at step 2
but how can I make a proper fire? Cause I’m missing some information:
please help and thanks in advance!

I really liked this tutorial. This is a very interessant text effect. I’ll do it. thanks!

cant u download the psd of this?????????

Very Helpfull!!!!!!

Here’s the link for the nike add you were inspired by but we didn’t see the streaming lights and the rest of the effect just the fire???

Am I the only one who thinks this tutorial sucks?

A PSD would be very helpful to take a look at for this tutorial. Other than that I think its awesome! Thanks!

Awesome!!!….

nice tutorials

thanx

funtastic very impressif . i cant imagination before.

I need uber help with changing the:

Set your background color to a 50% grey and the foreground to a dark grey.

In step 2.

toomerkyle@yahoo.com if anyone is nice enough

thanks!

very nice tutorial!

Very nice, fun project.[IMG]http://i30.tinypic.com/2qi8uoy.jpg[/IMG]

Hello, I am having the same problem Han experienced:
“When i’ve got the area selected with the Lasso Tool, and then trying to put clouds in it, it is totally screwed. By pressing ALT, I dont have a clue when, or whatsoever, because by pressing ALT it closes the menu so I can’t click on clouds..”

any help would be greatly appreciated,
my email is Fufuwk@yahoo.com

I just love the result.. and I hope I’ll get the same result..
After reading all the comment, I hope I’ll get trought the first two steps..!

I like the fire

Daniel

yea another great tutorial, thanks. i got a lot tips here. did you have flame tutorial?

Oh my gosh……. this is so amazing!

At step 4 use select too before attempting to apply effects which will be greyed out until you do that.

Great site. I’ve enjoyed looking around.

In case anyone still can’t get past step 2 in cs3 use refine selection, increase feather before applying cloud rendering

This is an awesome tutorial. I changed the text to Loraelyn and it worked very well. I also re-learned how to create a brush. Thank you so.

Regards, Evs
Imagine a space scene, with some planets and meteors. Damn, I think I’ll try a nice composition design using this tutorial as a starting point. It really gives me some ideas

I just love the result.. and I hope I’ll get the same result..
After reading all the comment, I hope I’ll get trought the first two steps..!

Awesome Tut, this is a very useful tut, thanks

Looking at the PSD for this tutorial… there are a few steps missing…

So i guess if you want to get a better idea of how this is done, you’ll have to get a plus account. You will need to figure out some of the stuff on your own.

Great effect though.

^ I agree with ‘g’ on this, I can’t recreate the whole thing too.

But otherwise a very kool effect indeed.
Fabio! your tuts and your site OWNS man.
carry-on the good work

What font is used in the enlarged picture for the writing alongside?

Get work BTW.

wonderful creativity
and i like this one
thankyou very much PSDTUTS

de puta madre!!! excelente!

Ever since I started coming to this site I’ve wanted to do this tutorial… and I still haven’t done it. What a shame. Next on my to-do list.

This is hardly a tutorial though.
It is impressive, but only for seasoned users. Hehe.
I can’t for the life of me get my clouds to blend in.
And my liquify tool makes the fire look like it has spikes, not that is a flame…

Ah well, practice, practice….

Leejin, scroll up a bit and you’ll see Nathan explained how to get the clouds. Me, I used the pen tool to get the shapes, then I made it into a selection. After, I went to select – modify – feather. Here I inputed 30. You can go higher. Now go ahead to render – clouds, and you should have something closer to what’s here. Hope that helped a bit

Interesting tutorial.

Very nice tutorial!
Getting just the right looking thing with clouds is a bit hard for me, but I managed somehow…See what I did!
A few touches of mine too…
http://bloodyhippo.deviantart.com/art/Gaurav-on-Fire-91268994

thanks.it’s great

tbh i dont think you left enough information for people, like help them find brushes instead of buying them, how did you make the lasso not have jagged edges, how to make it so the color cloud isnt so bright,. just stuff like that but the outcome is nice

Okay so in step 2 I had the sharps edges problem too. Then I airbrushed the shape I wanted then created a clipping mask and then render>cloud the mask.

Hope it works for you guys

Okay one more thing. I am completely stumped on the eighth step!!! Can anyone explain it a little differently? Please!

Horribly written tutorial.

Its a nice effect but you cant echieve it by following the tutorial.

very nice, muy bueno ñ_ñ

Saludos =)

Thanks for Posting.
Great Tut.

I find there are alot of things missing in your tutorial, especially with the clouds, 3D effect, andmaking the textloko blurry…disappointing..

That was alsome !

Amazing, incredible, fantastic. I feel like a fool when I look see a tutorial like this and realise how little I know about digital editing. I have the Adobe suite – time to start using it properly!

Great tut. Is there a way to create a 3D text using Photoshop only?

I found the group that did the Nike ad you mentioned for this tutorial.

http://www.hejz.com/v2/#folio/view:set=4,work=2

I think wot Fabio forgot to say is that when making the clouds, the selection tool should have a feathering optrion enabled. Only then can you recreate this amazing efect!

Nice work

Thanks for provide amazing stuff.

nice Amazing, incredible, fantastic

How do you do step 2 because what do I do when holding alt

i dont know what to say im speechless about your work..

Hey, your explanation of this tutorial wasnt really that good. The picture is awesome. Your really talented with photoshop.

Just the explaintion sucked.

I am a chinese boy,I never have seen so a good techniques ,谢谢！

Very impressive! Fantastic job!!!

thnx for sharing but there is something i cant find the Effect > 3D > Extrude and Bevel where i can find it i am using photo cs3 it looks great btw

Can you PLEASE explain in more detail the steps towards making the correct fire in respect toward the cloud part? You are leaving out major steps and after trying for 5+ hours I cannot get it. Any help would be appreciated, post here PLEASE!

^ open to anyone willing to help please

damn it… i was doing this then got stuck on illustrator. i only have photoshop.

wow .. very beatiful

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Nike-Air-Lab/40072

I think that’s the nike ad.

Well done.

awesome tut though a bit hard for beginners. thanks for the tut

Hey,

For all you guys confused about the first cloud rendering part

1.) When you select the Lasso tool, look under your toolbar at the Feather setting. I used 50, and once you render and do the Levels to it, the image looks fine.

2.) For the blue part, I just made a new layer and did the same thing with a blue background color when I rendered the clouds. Then you can put the blue layer on Color Dodge and It looks just fine.

Happy Photoshopping,
Daniel

What version of Photoshop i need to do this effect????? Thank you!

that awesome fabio very very nice

check step two
you can’t hold alt and make click clouds
please make more simple

like it so far though

pretty cool effect, but the tutorial needs a re-work.
it’s very hard to guess what step might be the next, also a rgb info for the grey colours could improve the editing.
would be nice to see a re-work from the author himself or any other user…

I like the effect a LOT, but tbh, the tut is lacking.

The part that i am stuck on is 8. What blending modes are you setting the layers on?

for more attention:

STEP 8: WHAT BLENDING MODE????????

Cuz i can’t seem to get that look… I’ve tried to do this like, 50 times in the past two days and can’t get it >_>

thank u………

I really like that tutorial and the picture is great, good job,

but it’s damn hard for a beginner like me xD

IT’S VERY VERY NICE TUTORIAL

Tnx!!!!! Daniel !!!
fabio
Great tut !!

i like it~

really awesome work

That’s brilliant!

Thanks!

it’s very fantastic. and very awesome….really great, i get many spectacular things when i try it on….

This one’s really a blast! It looks amazing.

So many thanks!

Can somebody please clarify what I have to do in step 4?
My text doesn’t look like that.

I would appreciate it if someone else could show me a screen shot of the settings they used illustrator.

is it Photoshop ? isnt it ?

I’m impressed, that is very amazing and cool

can ı ask you somethng ?
where can we put efects which are downloaded on PS folders?

I am downloading text efects but ı dont know where I’m gonna put on Photoshop CS3 ?
please can you help me about this topic ?
10x now, maybe you can answer to my email adress, I’m waiting
10x again

Step 2 is not clear and its kinda wrong i guess…

Amazing tutorial!

http://dota.ck.ua/images/stories/wall/dota_wallpapers_03_al.jpg

Amazing! I want to try this, but I get stuck in the begining. When I apply the cloud trick to my selection, this is lined hard until the end of my selection shape. It doesn’t fade. Can you tell me how I can fix this, or how I should generate clouds that fade on the edges of my selection? Big tnx!

A learner from NL

Jeroen – when you select the lasoo tool, at the top, on the toolbar, set the feather value to around 30-40 and then draw the shape.

Awesome tutorials on this site ..One question on this. You say to hold alt when creating the clouds but that just closes my menu? I am on windows not mac

I don’t know how to use Illustrator very well and I put those numbers in my text is in the right shape, but the shading is wrong. Help please.

Thanks

This would be a great tutorial if there were not so many missing bits of information.

Any chance a rewrite is possible or already done?
Very lovely effect….but this tut is way too hard to follow unless you are someone who already knows how its to be done.

Thanks, Jon Bon Jovie, your explaination helps!

Please can you re write the tut thanks……

This stinks, I did exactly what you said and ALOT didn’t turn out the way it did for you… couldn’t even get it to work. waste of time…

After some playing around. I found the step missed for the cloud effect.
While your have your selection and before you put in your clouds. Go to
Select > Refine Edge.

I used these settings to get his result before using his Adjustment Levels.

Refine Edge:
Radius – 66.8
Contrast – 7
Smooth – 0
Feather – 6.5
Contract/Expand – +39

Hopefully this helps

Update: Sorry, change your feather to somewhere in the 40’s

This is pathetic.

This guy obviously didn’t write this tutorial correctly so that you’d HAVE to buy the PSD.

That’s just sad, because the effect looks really cool.

Unfortunately there is absolutely no way to get that look using this tutorial!

Look for some other tutorial, cause this one is BOGUS!

I did your tutorial and I pretty much wanted to gauge my eyes out. You did not explain your steps well at all, and I think you should actually do your own tutorial from the steps you gave and see what I mean. I have a lot of experience with photoshop so I know what I’m talking about when I say this sucks horribly. To anyone else, good luck adding your own feathers/colors/ideas to this, because the directions this person gave are BAD.
And the sad part is, my photoshop crashed so I have to go back and start again because it’s for a class assignment. Thanks for making my life miserable. Bye.

Great tutrial but ive run into some problems in step 2 (alt key) and the lvls arent the same

Im sure with a slight carefull study of the end image the effect can be re-created. In light the tutorial does not give the entire cake i must admit

not discussed well….. you should discuss it detail by detail so that others can do it..

This tutorial doesn’t make sense — very hard to follow even for an experienced user of photoshop. I suggest that you complete your tutorials before posting them otherwise they are a waste of time.

Nice effort however.

I’m a big fan of your more recent tutorials Fabio, but this early stuff really leaves a lot to be desired. Everything pretty much falls apart by Step 11- tell me how you can have a round fire ball and suddenly manage to make the “O” look like molten steal with fire erupting off the front edge with just liquify and sharpen? remember there, are two other layers of fireballs above and below this layer, but you’ve skipped a ton of direction.

fantastic …

Can someone please tell us wich is the effect used in te step 8? I can’t get it TT

…beautiful !

to be honest, it really pisses me off, that you post this as top tut and then are not good enough to answer the questions of your guests. this goes out to collis AND the author of this tut. instead that someone of these “wow youre so cool”-dudes explains what is going on and what the steps were, which were not described, they continue patting each otthers shoulder.

THIS IS NOT ONE OF THE BEST TUTS I’VE SEEN, THIS IS ONE OF THE WORST!

Whoaaa! this is oh-so-awesome! Thank you for this tutorial. I just try to make my logo with flaming meteor effect. yay!

hey Fabio it’s amazing, I’ve seen that in movie
great results

thx 4 the tut rly cool but , did not understant step 2 and 8 can someone explain it a bit … i get sharp edges like other ppl .

hi it is great jop please have you video tutorial for this i need it

i love the style and concept

Thats what I like to call nicity niseness!

Step 8 leaves a lot to be desired, but I guess if you’re selling the psd, you’d do that. Cool effect, but impossible to do with your instructions

thanks for the tut

is Imposibles, i have photoshop CS4 and y cant duet.

I donts speak english

That effect is just the BOMB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Ok so for step 8 I just created the circle with the elliptical marquee tool and set the feather to 60 pixels. I then used relatively the same stats he used for his levels and the exact same stats for the Hue/Sat.

But for the sparks layer I used a soft brush and erased some of the inside of the circle. I pretty much got the same effect.

Hello everyone,

Fabio, I m a die heart fan of yours. In this tutorial I m very confused about the STEP 2. I think some more explanation should be given. Read the STEP 2 again, I think u forgot to mention some instructions.

STEP 2:
Go to Filter > Render > Clouds and, holding the Alt key, create clouds.
When u Go to Filter > Render > Clouds then holding the “Alt key” do nothing.

Anyways, I appreciate for your efforts. Keep the good stuff up!

Dude could anyone please make a video of it. Nothing is working good for me.

thank you so much. yeaah

holy crap you’re impressive dude…we can just blow to u

THATS AWESOME!! thaks to you I´m learning for real

I love all the people that say “great tutorial” and then ask questions about the bits that are poorly explained.

It is a really nice effect but a very poor tutorial, so much left out.

Thanks for your good tutorial.

looks good!

can u plese post a tutorial in which the text is filled with chilliflakes for a logo!!
PLZ

Brillinat work fabio

This is a great tutorial showcasing the many different filters in photoshop working together to create a spectacular effect. Who says filters are overrated? Very well done, thanks for sharing.

Played with colours a bit, awesome results

niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee thank u

Good job, but man!,
What are the blending modes of the layers
because starting from the cluds .. (that I supposed its necesary to use a great feather in the selection) nothing looks like yours

I dont get the clouds part.

I dont get how to do clouds, it always just fills the entire selection auto

is this meant for photoshop cs4? cause thats what i have, and its registered

magnifico, awsome, beautiful….

It silly to add an incomplete tutorial!

With the clouds you need to adjust the feather option in the bar at the top which appears when you select the lasoo tool (a number between 20 – 40 is good) just play around untill your clouds don’t have hard edges.

With the text in illustrator to get the same effect, click the more options tab in the 3D bevel options box and play with the light settings untill you get the same thing. (note: do not give your text an outline just a fill color before adding the 3d effects)

Also do not hold the “alt” key when adding clouds. Just click render clouds!

Ya my fire turned out horrible. I would love to know the subtle things that make this tutorial come together because it is definitely missing a few steps.

Impressive!

Brilliant tut!

THIS IS AMAGING…..REALLY AWESOME…..

KeEp iT uP…..

nice finished product, but terrible tutorial. all I get after step 8 is a ball of orange and yellow light, where as the preview image shows it all nicely blended around the “O”. i don’t get it?

Wow … Very Great Tutorial.
Thnk’s guys, I will Learn it at home..

great fire effect, but I have to agree with some of the other comments that the lasso tool doesn’t create the same soft edged clouds shown in your example, but none-the-less you still showed me how to create a cool meteor fire.. Thanks and keep them coming… For you people still stuck on the clouds.. just download a cloud brush or soften the edges of your selection to create your clouds. The tutorial was about fire not clouds..

I cannot understand…why to publish a tutorial that does not work. Wrong step 2 & step 8. Only to fulfill CV?

I enjoyed this tutorial, not very nubberish-friendly though.
To complete it you have to play around some with the layer style options.
Also be patient when using adjustments like layers and hue/sat, it is important to get some areas of the clouds black (inc the contrast).

Check my img out here:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3191727&l=ca10330acf&id=696297845

good really impressive!!

woww

I’ll have a go at this

Aha! I knew this tutorial was tha bomb!
Neat!!

This is very goog idea.
Brothers hi from Serbia

Can anyone make one for me saying MrMorgastic on it please? I don’t have the right tools to do this my self Please write back to mrmorgastic@hotmail.co.uk

Thank you

The effect is pretty cool…but I’m sorry I cannot say the same for your tutorial. The steps are not been explained properly and is very confusing.

Here is another way to make clouds better. open a new layer (ctrl+shift+N) then go to filter>render>clouds (you can do it till you get the best result for you) then here is the difference. Go to Selecet>Color Range… Then play with the Fuzziness (I found the best result on 88) after that. Select Inverse (ctrl+shift+I or Select>Inverse) so just hit delete till you get the best result. (Do not hit too much 3 or 4 times will be enough). Now we will make some beauty touches with Clone Stamp Tool (S) copy the best parts to the edges to make it more realistic and clear the unwanted ones with eraser tool (E). Here is my result about making of cloud part of the tutorial: http://img200.imageshack.us/i/tutef.jpg/

It’s wounderfull tut
great job

wow thats really cool this is good work

Sweet