Fire Ball
Create this realistic fireball by using only filters.

author:
  Blake
title:
  Fire Ball
date:
  Tue 28 June 2005
category:
  Photoshop Filter Effects
credits:
 


New Document

Make a 400x400 document. Now press "D" on your keyboard to reset the foreground and background colors to black and white. Make sure your background is BLACK.



Clouds Effect

Now apply Filter>Render>Clouds then Filter>Render>Difference Clouds on the background layer.



Plastic Wrap

Now Filter>Artistic>Plastic Wrap and use these settings:



Now apply Filter>Stylize>Glowing Edges and use these settings as well:






Duplicate layer

Duplicate the layer and set the new duplicated blending mode to Color Burn:






Lens flare

Apply a Filter>Render>Lens flare right in the middle of the bottom layer. Use these settings or modify them to your liking:






Set Color

With the bottom layer still selected press CNTRL+U and use these color settings:



Your done, heres my fire ball:



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