Tutorial 11 – Explosion

Found on the internet by Justin Soulliere (2007)

 

This tutorial will teach you to make an explosion like this one.


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1} New image 800x600
2} Clouds- default settings
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3} Duplicate layer
4} Top layer - Effects - Distort - Bulge +100
5} Bottom layer - Effects - Distort - Bulge -200
6} Top layer - Blend Mode - Xor

You should have this:
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7} Flatten
8} Duplicate layer
9} Top Layer - Zoom Blur 75
10} Top Layer - Blend Mode - Lighten
11} Top Layer - Curves - RGB
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You should have this now:
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12} Duplicate the top layer
13} Top Layer - Dents - Scale = 36 (All other settings default)
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14} Top Layer - Gaussian Blur = 12
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15} Bottom layer - Curves - Luminosity
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16} Bottom layer - Lens - Default
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17} Bottom layer - Layers - Rotate/Zoom - Zoom = 0.65x
18} Bottom layer - Curves - RGB
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19} Add New Layer
20} Top Layer - Radial Gradient (middle at 400,300)
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21} Top Layer - Blend Mode - Additive
22} Flatten and done!
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This tutorial was taken from the following url:

 

http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=5805

 

The author’s name is unknown.  The author’s alias is Ben_R_R.

 

 

 

The following was done by Joshua Abate (2009):