How To Create Blast In The City Effect In Photoshop "City in Attack" ~ AndestA PhotoshoP

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a war scene which contains some fighter planes and a big explosion.This step-by-step tutorial is also available for download so you can save it on your computer for later usage

Find the images required to create the effect.

1. An image of a city. It’s good to find a city image taken from above;

2. Two or three fighter plane images taken from different angles;

3. Two or three cloud images. Find good cloud images as clouds are used to create the fire or the blast effect

Create a new document with the following size: width: 1500px and height: 1125px. The resolution is your choice. If you are making it for print purpose, you should choose it over 300 dpi. For web, 72 dpi is a good choice

Insert your city image where you’d like to create the blast on a new layer

Insert the image of a cloud on a new layer above the city image layout. Make sure the cloud is big enough to cover the entire document

With the cloud layer selected press CTRL+U to open the hue/saturation window and perform the below steps.

•Check colorize option on bottom right, just above the “Preview” check box.

•Set hue value to 30 or you can set your own hue value. The idea is to give a red hue to the clouds

With the cloud layer selected, perform the below steps:

• Press Ctrl+J to create a duplicate layer of the cloud;

• Press CTRL+T to transform it;

• Right click and press flip horizontally

Change the layer mode to Linear Dodge (Add)

Your effect should look like the in image below. It looks like there is fire all over the city

Choose Eraser(E) tool from the tools window and erase the parts from the image where you don’t want the fire effect

Now find an image of the sky and insert it on a new layer on top. Perform the steps below:

• Erase the bottom part of the sky;

• Decrease its opacity to 66%;

• Change the layer mode to luminosity

• Right click and press flip horizontally

Now here is the interesting part, where the cloud collection comes into play. This is the most important part of the fire effect. One step which is repeating in my tutorial is to insert a cloud and then colorize it into red and change its mode to overlay or Color Dodge. My advice is that you should not go with my mode option. Try your own modes. Play with some modes and maybe you can make a more realistic effect.

•Insert a cloud image

•Erase hard edges

Press Ctrl + U, check the colorize option (don’t change the color mode for the first cloud layer)

Insert more clouds, erase hard edges and press CTRL+U. Colorize and hue values should be 30. Change color mode to overlay

Insert another cloud in and erase hard edges. Press CTRL + U, colorize and hue values should be 30, color modeOverlay

Change its color mode to overlay

Create a blank layer, color it red and change its mode to screen, layer opacity 54%

Insert more clouds, erase hard edges and press CTRL+U, colorize and hue values should be 30. Change color mode to hard light

Now insert your image with the fighter plane and erase the background. Just click on the pen tool, trace your image and then use Ctrl + Enter and CTRL+ SHIFT+ I to delete the background