I set this layers Blending Mode to Overlay. The first is a new layer above all others with a single soft brush set to #fabe6b for the color. I added two more elements to accomplish this. To add the final touches I want to adjust the color a bit. I did this by creating a new layer with a blending mode set to Overlay, and painting with a soft white brush where I felt like the highlights should appear around where the fire is most intense. Next I want to add some highlights around the fire to help blend it with the horse's neck. I placed a brush from the collection on a layer above the flames. I used the Smoke Textures and Brushes Vol1 set here at WeGraphics. Now let's add a little bit of smoke beyond the flames. I was aiming for a little bit of a wind blown look. In the new window I used the Forward Warp Tool and Twirl Tool to move and shape the flames in the direction I wanted.īelow are my final results with the Liquify Filter. Choose (Filter | Liquify) to open the Liquify Filter. Once you've finished scaling the flames to the right size and angle. Once you've copied and pasted the fire over to our working document, you'll need to scale and rotate (Cmd + T) the flames to fit along the back of the horse's neck.ĭon't worry about the scale being out of proportion, we're going to change that within the Liquify Filter. I made a rough selection around the upper portion of the flames so that no logs are selected. Now let's grab some fire from the campfire photo. Set this layers Blending Mode to Overlay. Choose a Radius value around 6 or 7 and click Okay. Create a duplicate layer of the horse and select (Filter | Other | High Pass). Next we need to sharpen the details of the horse a bit. Here's mine after a few touch ups on the edges. You'll have to clean the edges up a bit with the eraser tool. I used the Quick Selection Tool (W) to make a rough selection of the horse to extract and paste onto the black background in our new document. In Photoshop let's create a new document 1000 x 1000 pixels with a black background. I used this horse image and a photo of a camp fire. Below is the method I used to essentially paint with fire and change the direction of flames.īelow is a preview of what we'll be creating. After a little experimentation, I discovered that Photoshop's Liquify Filter handles the task brilliantly. Recently I was searching for a way to shape flames and change the direction of fire in a Photoshop composition.