The attempts at muzzle flash

[Chronoteeth]

I tried to make a muzzle flash using WW's guide, this is what I got:



Pretty crappy huh, well, if you want, you can use it as you wish for any gun you want.

I'll post more once I make more.

This is in the maps and mods area cause people can use my muzzle flashes in a gun mod if they wish.

[Linguica]

Chronoteeth said:

well, if you want, you can use it as you wish for any gun you want.

lol

[iori]

Run a few filters over that.

[Epyo]

Huh, is this Doom 3 or Zdoom?

[Scuba Steve]

[Mivalekan]

Scuba Steve said:

Hah, busted.

[Chronoteeth]

Yeah, It's a peice of crap, heh, I know, I just started using photoshop thats why, and scuba steve, you enlighten me with what it would look like.

[iori]

Is that a challenge? :P

[Sporku]

All I can say is.. That muzzle flash could use some serious work.

[Nmn]

Ok, because an image gives more than a 1000 words I've decided to do some tweaks.

First I've mirrored it. A star of a flash of a light (and that is what a muzzle flash really is) is farely symmetrical. It doesn't shape an X star, thus was mirrored vertically.
A flash should be very bright, thus I've used plenty Light tweaks including the Lightness Up Retouch in the middle (that's where it is at it's brightest)
Then I removed the dirt around the flash that You made using the lousy density airbrush. I don't know what that is (gun powder? sparks?) but it's not good IMO.
It also looks You didn't use the smudge tool that makes an impression of radialy spreading rays-which make a decent "flash star".
I hope I helped in some way.

[Chronoteeth]

This is still quite crappy, but it's at least better than my other one.

[Nmn]

Random smudging.
Try to think of smudges spreading out radially out of the center of Your muzzle flash, but You're on the right track.

[Chronoteeth]

I made much more outta control smudgeing this time, a little better.

[Nmn]

Getting there. Much improvement.