Flames

jsmee · **Joined:** Jan 16, 2015 **Posts:** 3

GIMP Version: 2.8.10
Operating System: Windows
GIMP Experience: Beginner Level

Hi all

How is best to create the flames in this car livery? Looking to replicate this but not sure where to start!

Thanks in advance

James

Clouds · **Joined:** Jan 09, 2015 **Posts:** 22

Well...literally, find a stock photo of flame. It's probably what they did.

Otherwise, if you'd like to generate it yourself, I'd have a look for tutorials on painting digital smoke or flame (although I just did a quick search and didn't find one that looked quite right). Alternatively, a measure halfway between cropping a photo and generating it yourself would be to use some custom brushes, for example, maybe these.

That particular closeup of fire on the car also looks an awful lot like some of the energy-ribbon style desktop wallpapers I've seen... There's even a web-app called Flame Painter that can very quickly generate those types of images.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12518

Flame Painter is powerful, but not for me (since I'm a filter guy hence this sorry example; yes, I lazily extended the image too (and I could do better then this, but I am lazy; lol). In a better trained user's hands, it's awesome. Not free (online version is but not anywhere near as useful).

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14709 **Location:** USA

lylejk wrote:

Flame Painter is powerful, but not for me (since I'm a filter guy hence this sorry example; yes, I lazily extended the image too (and I could do better then this, but I am lazy; lol). In a better trained user's hands, it's awesome. Not free (online version is but not anywhere near as useful).

Lyle when you get that brush perfected send it to me. Please.

sallyanne · **Posted:** Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:26 am **(#5)**

There are tutorials on how to create flames on an object for gimp in YouTube

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Alternately you will find lots of flame ribbon public domain pics if you go here
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/vie ... background

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14709 **Location:** USA

You can also use the flames plugin included with GIMP.

Filters>Render>Nature>Flame

Just a matter of overlaying the flames now and masking out unneeded parts.
This image owned by myself and you may do as you wish with it.

sallyanne · **Posted:** Tue Jan 27, 2015 9:01 am **(#7)**

If you like what I've done here at all you can cut a bit out or make some yourself.
I just did the first part of the tutorial without the turbulence up high. colourised it the same and then did my own thing.
I erased every other row and also did about 11 segments in blind.
Then gave it a whirl and pinch.

ps the background is transparent.

sallyanne · **Posted:** Tue Jan 27, 2015 9:03 am **(#8)**

one Rod

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

If you want the flames animated, there are a couple scripts here for that.