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Picture 1: Heat Can Not Stop Me
I always wondered what it’s like to be able to control fire. When I was younger, I used to love times where there was a black out at home. It would be the only time I was allowed near fire. My sister and I would always come up with illusions and tricks to play on a lighted candle without burning ourselves...
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Picture 2: Fishes Are Friends
Has anyone ever asked you that if you could be an animal, what animal would you want to be and why? It’s a broad question with no right or wrong answer. I used to want to be a puppy when I was a kid because it was so adorable but...
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Picture 3: Even In Death
Have you ever had a déjà vu? Where you do or experience something that you felt like you have already done or experienced before? Sometimes it makes you think to yourself “hey, I’ve dreamt of this before”. And in certain cases it makes you think “hey, I dreamt I thought to myself that I dreamt this happened before”. I just like to think that those are...
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Picture 4: Back to Nature
When I was a little girl, I loved nature. I used to play with insects and dig up earthworms and snails. I would spend my evenings laying on the grass and watching the clouds go by. My mom and I would watch the clouds and point out shapes of the clouds that make up...
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Picture 5: My Ultimate Childhood Fantasy
Being a typical girly-girl when I was a kid, I used to loved cartoons like My Little Pony and Care Bears. I always wanted a unicorn as a pet and I absolutely love rainbows and stars and in fact, I still do. I always wondered what it would be like to be in Care Bear’s town or...
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| Into the land of fire! |
I always wondered what it’s like to be able to control fire. When I was younger, I used to love times where there was a black out at home. It would be the only time I was allowed near fire. My sister and I would always come up with illusions and tricks to play on a lighted candle without burning ourselves.
Description
In this picture, I tried to create a hot, dry and fiery feel to the image. I used a dry and cracked land as the ground and burnt trees in the background to enhance the dryness. I used crows flying across the sky to symbolize the migration due to the unbearable heat. I placed a girl in the image to show the ability to withstand heat and fire. The use of a fireball in her hand and her hair of fire shows her control over fire which explains the choice of title Heat Can Not Stop Me.
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| Fireball |
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| Steps to make a fireball |
- Create a new Photoshop document that is square with black background.
- Create new layer name it fire
- User eclipse marquee tool to create a selection in the middle, filling out almost the whole canvas. (tips: hold on to shift key + click and drag for a perfect circle)
- Render clouds. (keep pressing command + F until you get the pattern of clouds you want)
- Render difference clouds
- Press command + I to invert the colours
- Press command + L to change the levels. Drag the gray indicator towards the white indicator
- Distort by spherizing the now thunder like image. Press command + F to spherize again
- Stylize it by Find Edges.
- Press command + U to change hue and saturation. Make sure the colourize box is checked. Give the hue 0 and saturation 100
- In the layers panel, drag the fire layer to create a new copy layer
- In the new layer, press command + U again. This time give the hue 40 and saturation 100.
- In the layers panel, change the new layer’s blending mode to linear dogge.
- Press command + E to merge new layer to fire layer.
- Repeat step 2 to 14.
- Now you have two layers that looks somewhat like fire/thunder. On the top layer, change the blending mode to linear dodge and press command + E to merge the two top layers.
- Now you have a layer that looks more like a fireball. Keep repeating step 1-14 and 16 until you are satisfied with the fireball.
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| Hair of fire! |
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| How its done! |
- Open the image you want to edit
- Press Q to enter quick mask mode and choose a round hard paintbrush and paint over the hair are. You do not have to be neat. Painted hair will appear red
- When you have covered the entire hair area, press Q again to exit the quick mask mode. Press command + shift + I to invert the selection
- Press command + U to change the hue and saturation. Make sure the colourize box is checked and give hue 0 and saturation 100.
- Drag the layer to make a new copied layer of it. Press command + shift + I to invert selection and go ahead and press delete. Press command + U and give hue 40 and saturation 100.
- Change the layer property to linear dodge. Press command + E to merge layers
- Choose the smudge tool and choose a brush like shown and change the strength at 40%
- From the inside of the hair, give short strokes outwards to give hair a fire effect
