[100% Paint.net Planet Tutorial]

great tutorial, I haven't tried it yet but everyone seems to be getting great results

[Exploding earth (doomsday)]

Pretty good for a first tutorial, I've recently done something similar:

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edited from a screenshot of the demo version of motherplanet's earth explorer software

[Tramojo's Fire effect]

I have another method;

1. Render: Clouds: Scale:250 Roughness:0.

2. Duplicate layer. Blend mode: Negation

3. Add new layer.

4. Repeat steps 1 and 2. Set blend mode to Multiply.

5. Add new layer.

6. Repeat steps 1 and 2.

7. Blend mode: Normal, Opacity:145.

8. Flatten.

9. Curves.Like this:

10. Distort: Dents: Scale:110 Amount:50 Stretch: Amount:10 Angle:90.

11. Add new layer.

12. Make a gradient like this:

13. Set blend mode to Glow.

14. Flatten.

15. Blurs: Motion Blur: Angle: 90 Distance: 10

Now you should have something like this:

[Image Umbrella: Abstract Images]

Here's two that I made:

[nuke?]

Here's another one I made recently...

[nuke?]