[Seraph]

Here is my second tutorial:

To start off you will want to use a forward facing render (it’s okay if the edges are choppy as long as the rest of the render looks good). Paste your render onto a large image (1000 x 1000 or whatever you want as long as you leave lots of room so you can get the full effect) as a transparent layer.

Duplicate the render layer then run Noise>Pick at 50 and 50.

Now Image>Transform>Rotate image 90 degrees CW. Now use Filters>Distorts>Wind at whatever settings look good you want as long as you keep the style on wind with the direction on Left. (You’ll want it to be BIG though) Now do Image>Transform>Rotate Image 90 degrees CCW.

Now run another pick, but this time set repeat to 100.

Duplicate your picked layer and place the duplicate behind the render. Run a pick with 25 randomization on this layer. Then do a Gaussian blur of 3 on both pick layers before desaturating them.

Now go to your render layer and select: Layer>Transparency>Alpha to Selection then Select>Shrink 5-10 pixels. Now activate you’re quick-mask (The box in the lower left hand corner) and do a Gaussian blur of 30 then a pick with a repeat of around 45.

Deactivate the quick-mask and clear selection (Ctrl + K) on the top layer then Gaussian blur that layer by 3.

Ready for the finishing touches? I bet you are; so let’s finish this. Now go to the top layer and do Layer>Transparency>Alpha To Selection. Feather your selection by 5 and delete this from the render layer; erase the other parts of your render which don’t look good with one of the fuzzy circles.

Create two black layers and merge your picked “Flames” onto them. Set the two aura layers as screen and duplicate them both three times. Leave your uppermost copy alone, Gaussian Blur the second by 10, the third one by 20 and the fourth by 30. Do this for both “flames”. Merge down the flames then Layers>Colors>Colorize for both layers. Finally go to Filters>Colors>Color To Alpha and select 000000. Now erase where it doesn’t look good, crop your image etc.

Optional: For a little more depth create a sparks layer and set this to overlay (Desaturate this layer if you aren’t doing Red/Orange/Yellow for a color theme) Then Alpha to Selection you’re top aura layer, Invert Selection, and Clear Selection on the sparks layer.


I "borrowed a couple of ideas from
Fatal Edge - http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Mis ... 253-1.html
and
Frank34443 - http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Fra ... 227-1.html
You do not need my permission to post this on another site, please just credit me. I will answer any questions if you need help. :w:

[Ali Imran]

Tutorial is very nice, especially talking fina lresult


It is great. If you have skipped to read about requirements of tutorials to be official, I give yo utip, you take your text out of images and put it as text in the post, then this tutorial definitely deserves to be on official tutorials list.

thanks again for your time and effort.

regards

[Seraph]

Wow, I didn't think it was that good. I will definitely do so when I an hour or two of free time.

[Ali Imran]

Technique is not very much simple since based on several filters, but yet the idea behnd producing such things is very good and has many possiblities.

regards

[Kwin]

Wow! Simply amazing! That I didn't think of that yet!!! 5 stars! :l:

[Seraph]

Thank you.

[Pixkid]

AWESOME TUT!!!!! I shoulda thought of this.... great work, nice effect, Awesome outcome.

[Seraph]

Thank-you as well, I would love to see some results (not necesarily alone, as it is only an effect), but it would be great to see how some of the more talented artists can utilize this effect.

[shadowmancer]

My result is in my sig :) i didnt follow it 100 percent i wanted more of a glow out side so its not really an aura i guess i dk... i sort of messed um im really new and this is what happen when i finsihed.

[Seraph]

Welcome and that's a good job, tutorials aren't meant to be followed exactly every time; that would be boring.

[shadowmancer]

Thanks ive been using photo shop for a while but gimp is free and suposed to be equal to photo shop... now i gotta find a way around our schools firewall to get it installedon my profile at school maybe install it from flash driver :)

[Hamm]

Really nice tut. I didn't want the fiery look so i just stoped here:

[frank34443]

Pretty nice tut, I know some other people who have used a similar method, which results in a similar outcome, but using it in a sig is really cool, and it works really nicely, also easier. Good job on this for sure.

[Seraph]

Thanks alot.
@Hamm: That is a great and original result and I'm glad you enjoyed the tutorial.
@Frank: Thanks, that means alot coming from you. You have some really nice tutorials up (which I obviously noticed) and you are a really talented sig-artist, well more talented than me atleast.

[rocklee128]

heres my result, also i had fun with this tut and i plan to use it alot *bookmarks*

[Wanton_Soup]

A simple, yet, awesome effect. 10/10.

[Thornclaw_88]

Can you be more specific? I didn't really get it >.<

[Aep]

Great tut, +10

Outcome:

[Seraph]

Thanks alot guys, Those are some very nice results.
Thornclaw I'd be glad to help you if you can tell me what you are having trouble with exactly.

[AdmiralAmirable]

Yeah, this is an awesome tutorial. Here's my result:
Not the best, but hey, it's mine. :w:And I didn't go totally towards the flames considering the render is Naruto in the snow. What do ya think?

Oh, and great tutorial Seraph. The only part I was confused about was the "Optional" part to make the flames super realistic. Mind explaining (if not here then AIM)?