Tutorial: Photo editing (Fire effects) (Patreon)

Today I will be showing you guys how I made the first effect for my Dabi photo I uploaded here last month!!

First off you're gonna want to get a fire stock photo, I get mine from here! 

Now you're going to want to save the photo and add it onto your editing software, I use paint tool sai for editing!

Now just change the hue of the fire from its natural colored flames  to purple!

This is a bit bright/vibrant so lets desaturate it and up the contrast of it to bring out the highlights of the flame.

Now go ahead and change the layer mode to "Multiply", it is in the drop down window above the Opacity setting on the right.

Copy and past the flame layer and make this layer mode "Luminosity"

Now copy and past a part of the flame layer onto JUST the hand, this will be the base of the flame for the palm of my hand.

I'm gonna start erasing parts of the flame that overlap my hand now, I only want the flame to show under my hand so, I lower the opacity settings for this part so I can see my hand and I erase any flames atop my hand.

Now, since my hand is touching the wall and im doing flames coming from my hand the wall itself would be a bit damaged due to this! I found a picture of an old broken wall and will be using this as the effect for the damaged wall. I turn the layer mode into "Multiply" so it will blend in with the wall more naturally!

Now I just erase all the unneeded parts of the photo I don't want! I also upped the contrast of the damaged wall part to make the damage look a bit deeper.

I go on the same site that I got the flame on before and search for a smoke effect! Since I am burning the wall I want some smoke coming from my flames.

I put the smoke around my hand and up the contrast a bit on it/lower the brightness.  I also move some of the smoke behind the actual full flames as well! Lowering the opacity till it looks okay! 

For this part I take a light purple/blue color and color atop the flames with the airbrush tool. To do this, make a new layer above your flame layer then click the "Clipping group" tab, this will make it so you will only draw over whatevers in the layer under the one you're drawing on now. This way you're not drawing all over your work. After that I change the layer mode to "Luminosity" so the tops of the flames are a bright/lights color.

The flame was a bit much on my arm so I took my eraser tool and erased a little bit of the flame that was atop my arm.

Now since this is fire it is a light source! You want to reflect this on places where the light would be noticeable on from the flame, so the side of my face, arm and jacket! To do this I take the airbrush tool and draw all along those edges and change the layer mode to "luminosity" 

Then I went through and erased all airbrushed parts that were shown on the background and not actually on myself.

Lastly I took the airbrush tool and lightly colored around areas of the flame that looked dull, changed the layer mode to "luminosity" and after that I was pretty much done!

And that is pretty much it! I now this tutorial can be a little hard to follow, next time I will do this tutorial via video and record my screen but I hope anything in here helps you. If you need help/assistance with doing an effect like this just let me know and ill do me best to help you out!