11 Smoke and Fire Brushes

I always wanted to have a simple way to create some fire effects in photoshop. Using pictures of real fire somehow often did not end up how I wanted it, also taking good pictures of fire is also not that easy. I thought about how I could do it, and I got the idea when I would color smoke like fire this should end up pretty neat. So I did a lot of pictures of smoke, changed them into photoshop brushes and tweaked the layer styles to a color which ended up quite close to fire. I want to share with you these brushes, I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. :)

11 high resolution photoshop brushes. The package includes styles which can be used to create a nice fire effect with the brushes.

For Photoshop / Gimp 2.4+ Brushes

created with Photoshop CS3

High Resolution 1000 - 2500px

Included fire styles(works only with Photoshop, Gimp see below)

This brushes are useful to:

To put some extra smoke on cigarettes

As a background decoration

Using them on pictures which have some magical or fantasy topic

creating fire effects

===== Fire Effect with Gimp =====

If you want a fire effect with Gimp you can do the following:

1. Create a layer filled with black and use the smoke brush on it

2. Open the Gradients (Windows Dockable Dialogs Gradients)

3. Choose the flame-ish gradient "Incandescent"

4. While the layer with the smoke brush on it is selected, use "Colors Map Gradient Map"

What you get:

1. The package includes styles which can be used to create a nice fire effect with the brushes.
2. For Photoshop / Gimp 2.4+ Brushes created with Photoshop CS3 High Resolution 1000 - 2500px Included fire styles(works only with Photoshop, G