Well hello people,
I wanted to imitate the style used in the recent Battlefield posters, especially the slight flame reflection effect covering part of the soldiers. So I looked for tutorials, only to find out that there is practically none for Paint.NET, let alone for anything. Oh, there
one video, but it makes use of Photoshop's custom brushes, the result is not really the same both in the vid AND when I tried to do it. There are other works done already, who managed to imitate the original posters pretty well.And now I am here, asking the far more experienced editors than me out there what to do with Paint.NET in order to get that burning effect. There is an approach I've tried, if it helps.
1. Draw an oval above the places to have the flame effect.
2. Put a gradient (yellow to red) on it.
3. Gauss-blur the oval (30 was fine).
4. Put the layer with the oval as overlay.
5. Copy the layer a couple of times.
It looked close... kinda. Except that when in contact of the blue colour of the object I wanted to apply the effect on, the flame blended in and took a greenish colour. The red colour was also much more extreme in the picture, lowering its quality.
If you have any tips, suggestions and other things, you're definitely welcome.
Thanks already.