With some simple brushing techniques, and a bit of color tweaking, you can spice up your photos with this flaming hair tutorial. This effect relies on a good photo. You're going to a shot of some long hair, preferably flowing in the wind or tossed in the air. Blonde hair is going to work best, so if your model has darker locks, try changing it to blonde in Photoshop.

The majority of the work in this involves brushing the hair with the Smudge Tool. Use a grungy brush, with a small diameter and 50% strength to start. Begin towards the head and brush outwards, creating organic flowing movements.

Follow the hair's natural direction as shown in the illustration below (notice the wavy black strokes). Once you've touched every strand, duplicate your layer and use a larger diameter brush to go over the hair again. Be careful not to touch the ears or skin. When your satisfied with your wispy hair, use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to select the hair -- you don't need to be exact here. Now Feather your selection by 15 pixels. With your hair selected, bump up the brightness by +9, and the contrast by +41. These settings will vary depending on your image -- we're just trying to intensify the hair. Now comes the color correction. Make the hair glow by adding yellow shadows and highlights. Play with the settings until you've got your fire. All of this fire will create heat, so take the Blur Tool and add some blurry spots to the edges of the face and neck. For some final enhancements, use the brush tool with a bright yellow and feather in a few hot spots on a new layer. Blur this layer and change the Blending Mode to Overlay.

That should do it. Add an overall yellow hue to your final image and put on your shades! Back Home

Comments

Cynthia

Awsome girl it\'s looking nice. Really an eye catcher. It looks great in summer & Fall but weird in spring and winter. But hey who cares? The main point it\'s hot

Anith

Please help me, how to remove the dark background in human photo

kathy

very nice...good tutorial

Im Mintt

Omg How Effin Kool Is That x

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mrquesito

It's perfect! But for every photo there are different numbers (in my photo the cyan blance was 6, here was different).

Just because

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Exquisite

WOW!!! This is definately cool.

brandy

whoooo this is pretty kool...i think it will get me a A+

Uhmmm :-?

do you have to have a white background? I havnt tested this out yet but

kiel

mind blowing woow, woow

Kaze

Would you mind if I was to put this awesome tutrial on my new graphics community? I would cerdit the orginal author and as always provide a link back to here. This is a link to it http://z15.invisionfree.com/Crossfire_Grafix/index.php If you would like to contact me back about the hosting of the tut feel free to email me at supersteve005@gmail.com

Thomas

cool... but it all depends on the base picture... hard to achieve with other http://www.spymac.com/details/?2324639

Stupid People

Yep. Comment Sextion devoted to stupid comments like : CooLLLLL So cooooooooooooooooooooool HI I AM THE CAPITAL MONSTER

Wes

very nice

TheOther

REALLY nice!!! Will it work good on red hair? or SHOULD i "convert" it to blnde? (my girlfriends hair hehe ^^) Had lots of fun doing this =) Keep up the good work =)

Justice

Loving this tut! Had some fun with a Lindsey Lohan piccie! Looked funky with her red hair :) Having problems with the Quick Brunette to Blonde tut tho.

dhet

very nice!!!

Paleh

GooD..........Good.....

Ahamed Bazullah

Very Nice. www.dezigntec.com

prakash

very nice

kamal

good information

Zdee

Dull and very easy to do... ~DuH~

bobnz

look better on a dark background i reakon

dhina

superb in simple concept

Jeff

Anastasia, if you want, you can select the face and the body (everything but the hair), and then go to the Select Menu and choose Inverse.

Rocky

that's really nice

Anastasia

I dun get the polygonal lasso tool part. I select the parts like the ones shown in the picture, but what happens is: it is the face and the body colors who are changed, not the hair color

adeel quetta pakistan

vvvvvvvvv gooooooood

Jeff

Metall, do you mean the black strokes on the split image? That's just to highlight the flow of the hair, which you should follow when brushing it.

Metall

i dont get it wats with the stripes:S

SoulKeeper

Lol, Love it. Dontcha think so Diamond?

kray

sOooo cooLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!

nicole g

this is really neat

Diamond

Thats hot!

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