In this tutorial you will learn how to create a very convincing fire explosion using simple brushes which you can afterwards apply over photographs to get a cool explosion effect. The very strong point of this method is that it takes very little time and you need very basic tools that all photoshop editions offer.
Create a canvas with a black background …

Previously, if you had a transparent background GIF image that you would use on the Web, you would select the type GIF89a and you would click the color that you would like to be transparent.
Now, there is no need to resort to GIF89a in Photoshop because you can choose a background color that is transparent through the dialog box “Save …