Hi and welcome to PSDBURN! In this tutorial we will create flames on a bike racer. The idea for this tutorial came into my mind after I saw the Ghost Rider movie. Because the name of my new blog is PSDBURN, I thought that the first tutorial should be about creating fire. I hope you like it. I`ve got plenty more tutorials to publish here, so stay tuned.

Before we begin, download this photograph taken by litecreations.

Step1

Open the photo in Photoshop, grab the Clone Stamp Tool (S) and get rid of that white line.

Step 2

Now we are going to increase the brightness and contrast of the image. Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Brightness/Contrast. Use 5 for the brightness and 56 for the contrast.

Step 3

Create a new layer (Ctrl+Shift+N), select the Brush Tool (B), select a soft round brush with the diameter of 4 pixels and set the foreground color to white. Then use the Pen Tool (P) to create some paths along the front wheel like I did.

Step 4

Right-click with the Pen Tool (P) on your image and select Stroke Path. Then select Brush and make sure that Simulate Pressure option is checked.

Step 5

Open the Layer Style window and use the following settings for Outer Glow and Inner glow.

Step 6

Select the Smudge Tool, select a round soft brush with the diameter of 30px and set the Strenght to 35%. Then use this tool to transform the lines, so that they look like fire. Probably you will have to try a few times until you get the effect you want.

Step 7

Create a new layer, then repeat the steps 3, 4 and 5 to create more fire on the front wheel.

Step 8

Use the same technique you learned at the steps 3-7 to create some fire on the back wheel of the bike and on the man`s body.

Step 9

Now we are going to create some sparkles. First, we will have to create a custom brush using the Photoshop`s Brush Engine. Select the Brush Tool (B), go to Window > Brushes (F5) and use the settings from the next image.

Note: to save the brush, click on the ‘Create new brush’ button from the bottom right corner of the Brushes window.

Step 10

Create a new layer and use the brush you created at the previous step with a diameter of 4px to make some sparkles along the fire. Use the white color to create the sparkles and the same layer style you used for the fire layers.

Step 11

Now name all your layers and organize them into groups. This will help you find what you need a lot more easier. Take a look at the next image for reference.

Step 12

Select your ‘Front Wheel Flames’ group, go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Curves and use the settings from the following image.

Step 13

Select the Brush Tool (B), set the foreground color to black, select a big soft brush and mask some parts of the Curves layer, like I did.

Step 14

Select the ‘body flames’ group, go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Curves and use the settings from the next image. Then use a big soft black brush to mask the entire image, except the flames from the man`s body.

Step15

Go to Layer > New Fill Layer > Gradient and use the settings from the following image. The colors I used are #e09028 and #442f0a.

Step 16

Put the Gradient Fill layer on the top of all the other layers and set its blending mode to Overlay. Then use a big soft black brush to mask this layer like I did.

Step 17

Go again to Layer > New Fill Layer > Gradient and use the settings from the following image. The colors I used are #000000 and #ffdcaa.

Step 18

Put this layer on the top of all the other ones and set its blending mode to Overlay.

Final Result

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