How to start a fire with Paint.NET

[zennovations 0]

I used this tutorial to make a flame like text, only mine needed too look more like a cloud of electricity or static. I then made a background in photoshop using some basic meathods such as the noise filter for stars, adjusting contrast and drop off, and later adding a hazy nebula effect using clouds and clouds negative. There are two cloud layers, and they fade of at the edges of the screen for effect. This is now my splash page for http://www.zennovations.net

[zennovations 0]

Ok I like this tut, but is there a way to do it without the black background? I mean I want to make fire coming out of a dragons mouth and the black looks weird...

You could use the screen effect in photoshop... idk about Paint.net

Basically it will remove anything that is black in the layer, so if you want black to be transparent just applay this to the layer with clouds or the finnished effect.

[JMan94 0]

this tutorial... ROCKS!!

i made my sig using it.. thanks man

[Vidar 0]

Same test reworked...

How did you make that? :o

Sorry if it's been said already.

[Tankman64 0]

Hi Guys i'm new and i've done this cool water effect:

[theartistc 0]

I also have a tutorial on a very neat fire creating tegnique with paint.NET,

if anyone is interested: You can watch it on dA by clicking here

sorry if this looks kinda spammy but i'm only trying to help. this effect looks nice, too anyways

[Micah 0]

I made this.

[Ocho 0]

This was my first try, actually the first tut I read and tried.

[americanvirus 0]

I loved the tutorial and i felt that someone needed to burn down New York City, it doesn't look great but this is the 2nd tutorial I've done.

[786Ryan 0]

Nice tut definitly gonna try XD

[mainaman 0]

an avatar I made using this tut

[FC8s 0]

Well i just found this program 2 days ago and i have been on the tutorial section.......for 2 days. Excellent work people,learning a lot. Heres what i got.

[rocknroll93 0]

ok, i know this tut is for begginers, but why, (yes im a hippacrit) is no one taking it futher?

[pirana101 0]

i made this one its blue :shock: omg!!!! lol

i am new to paint.net if u have any tips plz message me

[pirana101 0]

this is blue flame with polar inversion and twist

[pirana101 0]

the same as the other sept inverted

[Bipolar_Dsitrotion 0]

Note: You must have Paint.NET 3.0 to follow this tutorial.

Paint.NET 3.0beta1 has a new effect called "Clouds", which makes very nice looking fractal perlin noise. I've found that it's quite neat to use this to create firey effects like this:

It's pretty simple:

1. 
   [*:1b5noz6d]Make a new image with dimensions 1000x500
   [*:1b5noz6d]Draw a gradiant like so (with white at the bottom and black at the top):
   
   [*:1b5noz6d]Make a new layer.
   [*:1b5noz6d]Double-click Layer 2 to edit its properties
   [*:1b5noz6d]Set the Blending Mode to 'Overlay', then hit OK.
   
   [*:1b5noz6d]Go to the 'Effects' menu and choose 'Clouds'. Change the blending mode to 'Difference', then hit OK.
   
   [*:1b5noz6d]Push CTRL+F to repeat the effect. Do this about a dozen times.
   
   [*:1b5noz6d]On the 'Image' menu, choose 'Flatten'. This will give you a single layer with some nice black-and-white clouds.
   [*:1b5noz6d]On the 'Adjustments' menu, choose 'Curves...'.
   [*:1b5noz6d]Choose 'RGB' under 'Transfer map', then uncheck the 'Red' and 'Green' checkboxes so you're only modifying the blue channel, add a control point as shown below. Do the same for the green channel so you have the curves shown below.
   
   [*:1b5noz6d]Q.E.D.!
   

Other things to try:

• [*:1b5noz6d]Use different shapes for the Layer 1 Gradiant. Round gradients make neat looking explosions
  [*:1b5noz6d]Tweak with the Curves, the general shape of them should be preserved to keep good saturation, but the channels don't need to go in the above order. Try Green, Red, Blue (instead of Red, Green, Blue) for a copper flame (copper burns green).
  [*:1b5noz6d]Play with the 'scale' setting of Clouds for finer or Coarser clouds
  [*:1b5noz6d]Play with the Roughness setting for clouds for softer or sharper fire
  [*:1b5noz6d]Just try things out, you never know what you'll get.

How do you get the gradient like that? Sorry to quote so much, I just wanted to address the issue that I was having.

[_neocentral_ 0]

It wont work with 3.36. I tried it. The clouds dont work the same...

EDIT: It still works. I wasn't doin it right.

[thehalflifedude 0]

nothing special, just my new sig:

EDIT: and yes, of course i'm going to resize it before i use it as my sig

[KellyB 0]

Fantastic!

I'm new to the tutorials and techy stuff on PDN and this was the first tutorial I tried.

Following instructions:

Second attempt ~ messing around with colours:

I can see this is another forum I'm going to get hooked on!

[hearts_dreams 0]

Here is my attempt.

[myworld101 0]

Wow man thanks!!! look awsome :oops: :AddNewLayer:

[JagWire 0]

oh cool! Nice tut! I like the fire. Thanks

[Wuzi 0]

I have done a new Sig with some easy effects including the Fire Effect!

(This is my First Sig)

Greez Wuzi!

[Don_Rade 0]

Very nice tutorial!!! U can make that simple fire in 5 min. or so.... But u can use that technique to do other pictures.... Great!!!