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Behind me you could see a fake fire, this time at Vidcast, we would show you how to do this effect without having to burn out a real house.
To do this effect we used particle illusion to make our fake fire and the background smoke. Our first step was to open up Adobe Premier and grab the screen shots of our window. Then we blackened out the window in Photoshop so that we can overlay our fake fire.
By adding another darkened copy of the window on top of the original, we can trim it down to give the background a look of smoke for our fire by using the erase tool. Going back to Premier, we now have the capability to overlay our window with the blackened out version and add our fire over the top of it.
Now we have a window that has erupted in flames. For our shot where the subject ran in front of the window, we have to create our fire behind the action. We did this by using Photoshop to create a layer over each individual frame, which allowed us to add the motion of our subject accurately in front of our fire.
After applying our layers, the fire looked much more realistic behind our subject. We added fully of a fire and now our illusion is complete. For more tricks in the trade, join us online at www.videomaker.com
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