Kyubi In Photoshop

[Lefty]

Hey does anyone know a way of getting a better firery look to the Kyubi's Chakra. I've tried a bunch of diffrent Brushes in Photoshop CS, but I'm having trouble getting it just right. If anyone knows of an option I'm not trying or a brush setting please tell.Thanks for the help.
Note: this is low rez copdy of the 200 DPI original

http://www.izabel.info/uploads/300dpi.jpg

[hopeknight]

Here is a couple of ideas you can try.

1. You can try experimenting with the smudge tool.
2. Get some nifty fire art off the web and build it into a layer behind the main one.

[lasaire]

Hopeknight's got it. Overlay a fire layer from the web and play around with layer blending modes, then take that smudge brush and smuges those outlines.

[Lefty]

Ok I tried what you sigested now I need an opinion.

http://www.izabel.info/uploads/03-300dpi-copy.jpg

[hopeknight]

Ummmm... I'd say it's too red. Try get a little more orange and yellow into the flames.

You might also want to try some lighting effects as well.

[AlbinoFury]

it needs some depth, and maybe a bit less red, other than that it looks pretty good, hard to tell at that small size though.

[Lefty]

Ok tried adding more orange to the mix and added two lighting effects. More lighting effects or orange??

http://www.izabel.info/uploads/8_03-300dpi-copy.jpg"

[hopeknight]

I say it's getting better. Try adding some lighting around the edges of the flame, also the top of the image is still too dark, maybe try using the dodge tool up there to lighten it up a bit.
Great work Lefty.

[Thi3f]

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[Everon]

yeah, hopeknight has some good suggestions. Here's a tip: Try duplicating the same layer, then applying a color dodge to the entire layer and reduce the opacity to about 50% or so. Then manually brighten some areas like the ears and top of the head with the color dodge tool.

Also, add some nifty pupils to that sucka. Go create a new brush and alter the size, so its more elliptical and adjust the angle.

http://home.comcast.net/~anthony_ip/aa.jpg

[Lefty]

Ok tried a few things. I think i have the look I'm going for. But it feel's like it's missing something.

http://www.izabel.info/uploads/300251.jpg

[hopeknight]

Were you planning on leaving the background white? If you put a dark background behind it and have Kyuubi give off light, that would look really cool. Great work so far.

[Lefty]

This is what I was planing on doing for the backgroung. I still need to trace over it and color. I might add a blur effect to the background to make it seem farther away. But this what I have right now.

http://www.izabel.info/uploads/A300251.jpg

[hopeknight]

yeah, with the background colored it'll look great! You will want to add a blur to the background, but you won't need to blur much. And as I suggested earlier, having kyuubi give off light (doesn't have to be alot) would be a nice touch.

[Lefty]

I'll have to add that when all the layers are droped to one, i'll probably use several lights to give off color then an omni to have a normal level so it all pans out. But thanks for all the help with the coloring, it would have taken me much longer to get it right.

[AlbinoFury]

also use a black brush and get rid of the title in the bg, and it could still use a little depth definition on it, or at least a little darker color on back of the chakra.

[Assertn]

if you want to go for a very realistic effect, you should make the fire alot more "glowy"....whether using filters or blending options, and then also try to make it semi-transparent so you can see a little of the background behind it

and if you want to go even further than that, try to add some heat distortion effects i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif

[Lefty]

I might go for the heat distortion effect but to make the Kyubi transparent would reveal the huge blank space where there was nothing in the original picture.

[r3n]

looks wicked with the pupils for kyuubi, for the background make it darkish, so the flame stands out more

[PSJ]

post the finished picture later, you really succeeded in the work on kyuubi man that looks nice.

[Lefty]

Here it is. i might do some more work later to touch it up.

http://img10.exs.cx/img10/4800/Fianl-1.jpg

[r3n]

nice i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif but i still think the ground and the bottom of the walls should be darker and rough them up a little too, that way kyuubi stands out more

[hopeknight]

I think the background (especially at the bottom of the image is too yellow. If you worked with more layers, you could color it lwith normal background colors and then have a second layer for the yellow lighting overtop. There needs to be at least some contrast between Kyuubi and the background.

I like some of the top area of the background. The way you have the fire going around the mirrors is cool. i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif

[Assertn]

Originally posted by: Lefty
I might go for the heat distortion effect but to make the Kyubi transparent would reveal the huge blank space where there was nothing in the original picture.

its easy to fill those in.....especially since anything behind flames that dense would be all blurred anyway

i think there's way too much red and orange on the page.....its almost blinding, and it makes stuff blend together too much. the ice mirrors should have strong glows on them to reflect the flames, but it should still maintain its bluish icy look. In fact if you used purples and blues for the background, then 3 interesting effects will result

1) you get a nice analygous color combo that makes the whole scheme fit nicely
2) you get a strong comparison between the hotness of the kyubi and the coldness of the ice mirrors
3) things that are yellow/red in color tend to "jump" out of the page while things that are bluish or purple in color tend to recede into the page. This way you further add to the effect of depth in the scene

[Lefty]

Here's a better version.

http://img10.exs.cx/img10/8107/Final2.jpg

[r3n]

yeah thats a lot better i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif, altho u cud dab all of the mirrors with some orangey-white (similar to the middle 2 mirrors) (make it a huge brush with a lowish opacity).

[PSJ]

wow that looks sick man great job.

[tensai]

that looks awesome, love how you captured the moment of that
would be hella cool to see some reflections on the ice mirrors, but that might be asking a little too much

[Lefty]

I played with the lighting to get some more orange in the miorrors.

http://img35.exs.cx/img35/9901/Final3.jpg

[Assertn]

ah very nice....i say keep that bg layer, then put another layer behind it that also contains the mirrors.....color in the mirrors the way ice mirrors normally would look like (except maybe darker).....then change the blending mode of that glowing bg one you have to "linear dodge" or "lighten" or something like that

[Mut]

fix naruto and sasuke. they're colored weird.

[Lefty]

That due to the fact they're on the same layer as the forground so they got colored along with the everything else. i'll go back and redo it from the befor lighting effect version i have. thaks for the help everyone.

Also here's somthing else I've been working on.

http://img10.exs.cx/img10/8726/naruto_ch218_p04-copy.jpg

[PSJ]

great job man, keep it up.

[Lefty]

Ok here's is a version of that i think is the best yet. Hope you like.

http://img50.exs.cx/img50/2817/Fianl-4.jpg

[KariudoKid]

definitley best yet. awsome job

[r3n]

yep, v nice end job i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif

[animeniac]

Crazy, keep it up

[NM]

Really cool, keep up the good work!

[winnydapoo]

That rox! should make it into a wallpaper, kyuubi wallpaper is damn hard to find...

[Knives122]

Im sorry but I just have to say it, What lefty did... anyone could do that, its a good job but you could do that in paint with the bucket

[r3n]

if ur talking about the kyuubi pic then;

not really... looks good imo, true it might not take a PS genius to make, but he had the idea to do and did it well. so dont critisize him for it

if ur talking about the other pic, (naruto normal) then its quite simply coloured, but its a good starting point

[Knives122]

i was talking about the naruto pic

[Lefty]

Most of the naruto pic was done with the pain bucket, but the sadows and fabric texture were not, that was the first Photoshop thing I did. So I did somthing easy. the Kyubi was the second thing I've done.

[Assertn]

<gasp>.......no.......not the PAIN BUCKET!!!!!

[Lefty]

From that I learned never to use it unless i had to. I do all of the coloring with the brush tool. Much more control.

[Assertn]

lol....well....actually i was acknowledging how you called it "pain bucket".....instead of "paint bucket".......
cause.....it sounds funny, in a torturous sorta way......

[r3n]

torturous as your humour?