21 Small Smoke & Fire Brushes

I always wanted to have a simple way to create some fire effects in photoshop. Using pictures of real fire somehow often did not end up how I wanted it, also taking good pictures of fire is also not that easy. I thought about how I could do it, and I got the idea when I would color smoke like fire this should end up pretty neat. So I did a lot of pictures of smoke, changed them into photoshop brushes and tweaked the layer styles to a color which ended up quite close to fire. I want to share with you these brushes, I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. :)

===== Product Contents =====
21 high resolution small smoke brushes. I call them "small" as most of them where not 2500x2500px big and therefore not big enough for the brushes I normally do. But as these smokes looked great I just had to use them to create brushes out of them. :)

The package includes styles which can be used to create a nice fire effect with the brushes.

• For Photoshop / Gimp 2.4+ Brushes
• created with Photoshop CS3
• High Resolution 1000 - 2500px
• Included fire styles(works only with Photoshop, Gimp see below)

===== Usage =====
This brushes are useful to:

• To put some extra smoke on cigarettes
• As a background decoration
• Using them on pictures which have some magical or fantasy topic
• creating fire effects
• abstract and fantasy designs

===== Fire Effect with Gimp =====
If you want a fire effect with Gimp you can do the following:

1. Create a layer filled with black and use the smoke brush on it
2. Open the Gradients (Windows Dockable Dialogs Gradients)
3. Choose the flame-ish gradient "Incandescent"
4. While the layer with the smoke brush on it is selected, use "Colors Map Gradient Map