fire rain

[Flayne]

(no longer a submission to the spell art competition)

hope everyone likes XD

[Scaredgirl]

Wow, very cool.

[Guitarmankev1]

Wow! What program did you use to make that?

[Flayne]

i used photoshop CS3.
i mostly used the brush tool for the light beams, then i used the smudge tool, stroking the edges of the light beams outward, to give the beams the 'comet' look. what i did with the brush tool though was alter the brush dynamics.
i made it so with a single stroke, the brush dimensions would constantly shrink until a certain point where it stops, thats how i made the comet tails.
then i changed the dynamics of the brush again (leaving the tail effect) and made them appear like many different sized spots,
thats how i did the little sparkle effects that spiral around the comets.

im glad u liked it 

[Wisemage]

(new to photoshop)

How do you alter brush Dynamics?

[Flayne]

ok, what u do is, instead of clicking the brush tool directly from the toolbar, there should be a brush tab (the tab should be visible when u open photoshop) on the right of the screen next to the image map, hence the small red circle on the top-right of this image:
(http://imageplay.net/es/view/m7Gbd61532/26)

and the window on the left is what should appear once u click the small brush tab, the options on the window are a small reference of what u can really do with the brush dynamics XD

hope this helps 

[Thalas]

Cool
It reminds me assassim's art of fire bomb.

[jmizzle7]

I like the concept, but the tails are jagged. They need to be more organic curves. Other than that, I like it

[Wisemage]

probably should have made my question more clear, i found the window but i couldnt fingure out how to make the line get smaller as you said in your previous post. (i found how you made the dots though)

[Flayne]

I like the concept, but the tails are jagged. They need to be more organic curves. Other than that, I like it

Cool
It reminds me assassim's art of fire bomb.

Wow, very cool.


thanks guys  , yeah i could have made the curves more organic but for some reason i liked the way they were because it gave it a more electrifying look and i though it was something more different than your occasional comet  ,
 

probably should have made my question more clear, i found the window but i couldnt fingure out how to make the line get smaller as you said in your previous post. (i found how you made the dots though)

and i found a tutorial for u that teaches pretty much the same thing, heres the link:

http://www.photoshoptower.com/tutorials/life-beam/create-realistic-photoshop-special-effect-sfx.php

you'll find everything here, hope this helps 

[Wisemage]

thank you.