Photoshop -> Photo Manipulating -> Construction Site Fire
Construction Site Fire
- Apr 08 2006
Learn how to blend an image (a construction site in this case) with a fire image to make it look like it's on fire.
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Choose your photos The first thing you need to do is choose your photos. I bought a couple from iStockPhoto for this project. You can save & use the following images for this tutorial if you want, or pick two of your own images.  
It's important that the size of your fire picture is large enough to completely cover your chosen main picture. This will become more apparent soon. Step 2
Resize your main image Particularly if you've acquired a picture from a stock photo website, you'll need to resize the image to suit your project. So, open up the image in photoshop then choose Image > Size. Set the width or height to the desired value and be sure to tick "constrain proportions" which will keep the resized image in proportion with the original without distorting its aspect.  
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