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Subject: Creating Fireworks

KellyLynn opened this issue on Jul 09, 2003 · 13 posts
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KellyLynn ( ) posted Wed, 09 July 2003 at 5:25 PM · edited Thu, 25 July 2024 at 7:34 AM

Hi, I'm trying to find a tutorial or something on how to create a fireworks display in Photoshop 7.0. My efforts at experimantation with different brush tools and settings have been... less than sastifying. I'm not looking to make animated fireworks, just somthing that would look like a nice still shot. Can anyone offer any suggestions?

retrocity ( ) posted Wed, 09 July 2003 at 9:17 PM

Hi,
let me see what i can come up with...

:)
retrocity

KellyLynn ( ) posted Wed, 09 July 2003 at 11:40 PM

file_66264.jpg

Thanks! This is what I'm wanting it for. The idea is to have the Dragon launching magical orbs from her hand, which then explode into fireworks... like the title says, it's a "work in progress"

Grimtwist ( ) posted Thu, 10 July 2003 at 2:31 AM

You want fireworks, baby? Try you, me, and a bottle of Passion Pop.

KellyLynn ( ) posted Thu, 10 July 2003 at 10:20 AM

Honey... you'd never survive it wink

Susieqbaby ( ) posted Thu, 10 July 2003 at 12:14 PM

I found a tutorial in one of my school books on how to make fireworks. I havn't tried it yet, but the examples in the book look good. Here it goes:
First show your brushes palette.
Select a simple round tipped brush.
Then select SHAPE DYNAMICS on the brushes palette, set jitter to about 45%, set control to FADE with a value of about 200, set your minumim diameter to 1%, set angle jitter to 100%, and control set to OFF, set roundness jitter to 40%, control to FADE at a value of 75, set your minumim roundness to 50%. After that has been done, select SCATTERING from the left side of your brushes menu, Set your Scatter to about 90%, with control OFF, adjust your Count to about 2, and your Count Jitter to about 80%, control OFF. Ok now we are almost finished with our brush. Select TEXTURE from the left side of the brushes palette. They suggest using Satin with a scale of about 65%, with a blending mode of Color Burn at 100% opacity. Finally just select your color and paint away. I hope this helps you and is easy enough to follow :P. When I get some more time, I'll try it out myself and post my results here.

KellyLynn ( ) posted Thu, 10 July 2003 at 12:49 PM

Thanks! I'll give that a try myself :]

Susieqbaby ( ) posted Thu, 10 July 2003 at 1:03 PM

You're welcome. I tried it just now myself, it might take some adjusting of values to get it to look the way you want. Let me know if it works for you.

KellyLynn ( ) posted Thu, 10 July 2003 at 11:19 PM

Attached Link: http://ebon-dragon.com/images/Work_In_Progress2.jpg

Okay, using Susie's suggestion this is what I've got so far. It's still rather rough (hate the way the shadows look so far, but it gives you the basic idea...) but it's close to what I'm looking for. Any suggestions?

KellyLynn ( ) posted Sat, 12 July 2003 at 5:25 PM

Attached Link: http://ebon-dragon.com/pages/Celebration.html

Well, here's the finished (for now...) picture. I'm still not totally sastified with it, but I think it looks good. I also thing the addittion of the little Dragon watching makes the picture more complete and gives the larger Dragon an excuse for settng off the fireworks.

mysnapz ( ) posted Thu, 17 July 2003 at 5:01 PM

Super... you just never know where you will end up. A lovely site full of beautiful dragons. :0 )

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. Salvador Dali

KellyLynn ( ) posted Thu, 17 July 2003 at 5:06 PM

Thanks! I've been critisized in the past for not having anything but dragons, though. Some people seem to think I need to... "expand my horizons" as one person put it. But I'm happy with my Dragons. They're the only thing I'm really interested in drawing.

mysnapz ( ) posted Fri, 18 July 2003 at 1:04 PM

You cant beat doing a bit of what you like and for me your hearts got to be in it to make it worth while. :0 )

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. Salvador Dali

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