Beginner Tut: How to make an explosion

[Skyance]

First create a new project 400x400 pixels. Make sure your colours are black and white like this:


Make a cloud render (Filter > Render > Clouds) and then auto colour it (Image > Ajustments > Auto colour) it should look somthing along the lines of this:





Now click Filter > Distort > Polar cooardinates and use "Polar to rectangular" as the setting.





Flip your canvas 90 degrees counter-clockwise (Image > Rotate canvas > 90 degrees CCW).





Add wind to your project (Filter > Stylize > Wind) and use "From left" and "Stagger" as the settings.





Now take out your soft brush and brush the left side of the canvas about 2 cm's think (3/4 inch).





Flip your canvas again but this time 90 degrees CLOCK WISE.





Now click Filter > Distort > Polar cooardinates but thuis time select "Rectangular to polar" as the setting.





This is what your canvas should look like now:





Get your lasso tool out (Press L) and outline the part of the explosion you want like seen in the image below:





Now right click and inverse your selection, then right click again and feather it 15 pixels.





Fill this selection in with black to complete your explosion.





To add "Firey" colour to this just click the appointed tool in the image and select the gradient map option.





Now its time to customize your colours! Make a redish colour on the right side and a yellowish colour on the right. I will let you do this yourself.







DONE!

[Bearrr]

Not bad :) I might use some day

I repped + u u should do same for me being so kind haha ;) or not

But nice tut

[Dubstepper]

I have a gimp brush that makes same effect then you can just do colorise

[Chronic-_-Man]

Nice Tuotorial.

[j2eco7V]

Its nice. I think I have explosion brushes though. Either way it nice.

[Skyance]

Thanks for the rep bear and not to be mean or anything (you seem very nice) but I can only rep you if you made a contribution in a topic like a tut or something. Sorry I just dont belive in false credit.

----Added 27/4/2009 at 2:31 PM----
Oh and can someboy hook me up with that explosion brushe? That would be better then trying to mimic it.

[j2eco7V]

Uhh I don't remember where I got it from. I don't even know if I have it still cuz I had to reformat my older desktop and I recently just bought a new one for my room so I probably don't even have it anymore.

[Skyance]

oh ok never mind then.