Photoshop Tutorial – Create Magical Fire Effects

We will create these magical fire effects, perhaps inspired by some of Marvel’s Avenger Wanda Maximoff iconic magical skills. You can also use your own image but make sure you wear dark cloth in the photo since this technique works nicer on a darker background.

The most important requirement is, your Photoshop version needs to be at least Photoshop CC 2014 as this tutorial will heavily use a Flame filter that available since that version. Your computer will also need a dedicated graphics card that has at least 512 MB of VRAM in order for this Flame filter to works. For today’s standard, most computers can comply with this requirement.

Stock photos and Photoshop brush used in this video can be downloaded here:
The main guy photo: https://unsplash.com/photos/2E_uZ5XuuW4
Amber fire sparks photo: https://unsplash.com/photos/b2Qhc-DQ6zM
The mountain background photo: https://unsplash.com/photos/4igCpD-Lnfg
Free Smoke Photoshop brushes 6: https://www.brusheezy.com/brushes/58509-free-smoke-photoshop-brushes-6

Just drop comments if you have difficulties with this tutorial. I’d be glad to help you.