I'm looking for some tutorials that show how to create a fireball explosion effect like the one you would see from a gas tank or Hollywood explosion effect.  I searched online but I wasn't able to find out much.

I'm looking for ways to create this effect with both brush effects and digital painting techniques.

Animated or not? One quick way is to use the circular marquee tool with a big feather on the edge and render clouds in to. Set the foreground and background colors to orange and yellow.

Experiemnt and post pics. I will help more later if you need it - I am running out of the house right now.

Luke

 

LukeA

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None animated.  I'll give it a try.

Attached Link: http://www.thedesignworld.com/photoshop-tutorials/filter-effects/realistic-explosion/

Try this tutorial and see how it works out for you. Hmmm...second time today I bring out that link.

great tut quest!

for the last step, if you don't want to use the black (or can't because it has background image...) you can mask it instead. this way you can still form the "ball" AND allow the background image (of whatever you're blowing up) to show through!

thanks for the link,
as always you are a very helpful member in the forum
:)
scott