In this Flame Tutorial, I will explain the use of basic Photoshop shapes to create a life like flame. It is a single flame rather than a raging fire.

We start out with a flower shape which you can find in the Custom Shapes dropdown box. Set the background to black, and use red to fill the shape with:

Go for an outer glow of 25px, and an inner glow of 51px and 75% opacity as shown here:

Then, group the layer as a smart object and rasterize so you can, Filter > Distort > Ripple (With size Medium and Amount 617%)

Finally use Edit > Transform > Warp to alter the shape. I try warping like this to start with:

After a few times warping, apply the warp and do it again. You end up with a flame like this:

And that’s it completed. Hope you enjoyed this Flame Tutorial.

Open a new document (file -> new or ctrl + n). The document will need to be relatively large, I’m using 3000 pixels wide and a height of 3000 pixels. Also ensure that the document is grayscale.

Next go to filter -> Render -> Difference Clouds.

Continue repeating this filter (the shortcut is ctrl + F). After about the tenth or so time you should get something similar to mine:

To create the lines we will be using the pinch filter (Filter -> Distort -> Pinch)

In the popup set the amount to 100% and press ok.

Once again you must repeat this filter (ctrl + F). You should notice the lines get longer and cleared each time you repeat the pinch filter.

I repeated mine about ten times to get the following result.

Next go to the brightness and contrast tool (Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Brightness and Contrast).

When you click on this a new window should open up titled “New Layer”, just press ok. Now another window should appear.

In this window use the following settings:

Brightness: +100
Contrast: +100 (you may wish to use a different setting for this, depending on the result you wish to achieve)

Press ok. Now your document should look something similar to mine:

Your result probably doesn’t look all that great at the moment, so next we must remove all of the unwanted parts of your picture. Find a section of your document that you think looks good and select the crop tool (shortcut: C). Now click and hold on your document and select the area of your document you wish to use.
This is the result I got after cropping my image:

That’s pretty much the end of the tutorial, all that’s left to do now is add a picture of your favorite manga character and your done.

Here’s my finished result:

Create a new 200 x 200 canvas. Using your custom shapes tool, select the flower shape

Double click on that layer. The layer styles screen should pop up, if not go to layer > layer styles > drop shadow. Fill in the following properties to your bevel & drop shadow layer styles:

This is what you should have so far:

Now, open your layer style window again and fill add in a gradient:

Double click on your gradient preview (between where it says ‘Gradient:’ nd ‘Reverse’)

A screen like this should pop up:

Now, the tricky part is to add in several different colors into your custom gradient style. See where the blue line is? (This is not on your window, its just to show you where you should click), press that area, a small square should appear with a new color. Double click on that square, then select a color. It does not matter where or how many squares you place in your gradient, be creative and experiment. However, if you do not have an idea where you should click, just look at the screenshot above and click where I have placed my colored squares.

Fill in the squares with a color: Here are the colors that I have used: FF0000, FFF000, FF00FC and FF0060.

Here’s a tip: When placing new colors beside each other, try using colors that have a strong contrast, such as yellow and red, then pink and yellow.

Here is how the end result should look like:

Add a stroke to each of your rectangles: click layer > layer styles > stroke. Settings are:
Size: 3 px
Position: Outside
Blend Mode: Normal
Opacity: 100%
Fill Type: Color
Color: #A1A1A1

Now, press Filter > Distort > Wave… add in the following properties:

Repeat this to all of your other rectangles.

You can add text to compliment your 90’s style graphic. My suggestion is to use the a gray (to keep a consistant color scheme) with the font type comic sans:

Spoof up your header by adding a reflection to its text. This basic tutorial will teach you how to do it. It gives it that Web 2.0 look.

Create a new canvas. Fill in the background with #D4D4D4.

Type in the text you’d like to use with the font color white.

Click on layer > layer style > Stroke… Add in the following properties to the layer:

This is what you should have so far:

Right click on the text layer > duplicate layer. Rename the layer ‘reflection’
On the ‘reflection’ layer, click edit > transform > flip vertical. Move down the text until it aligns with the layer above.

Right click on the ‘reflection’ layer > rasterize. Create a blank layer below this layer. Click on the ‘reflection’ layer and press down CTRL and E at the same time. The who layers should be merged with the layer style.

click on your eraser too, set it to an airbrush at pixel size 100. Erase the bottom part of the ‘reflection’ layer.

Change the opacity of the layer for %25. (This is found on the right side of the layers window. Here is how the final product looks like:

Add in the follow properties to your layer style:

* Note: The color code for SATIN is: #32B600 and for the COVER OVERLAY is: #4800FF

Final Image:

(Not sure why they are Disco Bubbles by the way )

Add in the following properties to your layer style (layer > layer style…)

This is how your file should look like in the end:

Add the following properties to the layer’s style (Layer > Layer Style…)

Here is the end result:

Add the following properties to the layer style of your vector shape (layer > Layer style…)

This is how your finished product should look like: