A guitar player render
A nebula c4d that flows with your sig
A lightning image and overexposure effect(you can get this on PR)
Your regular hard brush
Smudge tool
This should look something like your result:

1. Create a new document and fill it with black (no picture for this)
2. on a new layer place your render.( make it so theres enough space for flames to spurt out)sharpen if needed.
3. new layer, go to your smudge dialog and have these settings (with hard brush selected)
Apply jitter: 1.00
Fade out: 300 pixels
Spacing:normal
everything else at default
4. place the layer under your render and brush in any color then smudge it to make it look like flames(if nessecary brush over and repeat step)(<

5. add a lightning stock and make it wrap around the guitar players shoulder and set to screen.

6. add an overexposure effect and make it look like it's wrapping around the guitar.( I used lightning) (if using lightning set to screen)

7. add a nebula c4d that flows with your render and set to screen.

8. add a border and your done!(excuse my bad border.)

Looking forward to seeing your results! hope you learned something!

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