An Explosion!

[AnnIQ Edison]

Wasn't sure where to put this but does anyone have or point me in the right direction towards a picture of a giant explosion. I'm trying to make a sig like the one below but can't find an adequate explosion for the background.

If someone has one can they please post it here.

Thankyou

- The Inquisition

[K]

http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=search&am...plosion&p=5

Blend those four at the bottom.

[Docpepper]

If you don't won't to use stocks you can get a realistic explosion effect using the clouds filter and some messing around with the channels. I'll look and see if I can find the tutorial I based most of my explosion effects off of. Explosion effect

thats just one of many which can be found on good-tutorials.com. You could also combine that with stocks as well to add intensity to the effect.

Keith did you slice your and use html for your sig ?

[K]

You make it sound a lot more complicated than it is , but yes... it's just a couple of images next to each other that are linked.

[Docpepper]

lol k it's kick ass sig anyways

[K]

Thanks man. It's similar to my desktop wallpapers at home.

I'm loving serenity/firefly agian at the moment.

[Docpepper]

Do you happen to have that wallpaper available ? I've been looking for a good firefly/serenity wallpaper for a while now

[K]

On my main screen I'm using a slightly edited version of these..

http://www.summerglau.co.uk/gallery/wallpaper_collection.php

I flipped it horizontally, put the text back the right way round and got rid of the serenity logo. I'm not at home at the moment, so I can't upload the exact one.

On my verical screen I have just the background. I removed River and the explosion, so it looks like the two screens run together. Pretty cool.

[AnnIQ Edison]

Thought I posted it but Thank you for that K and Howdy. its appreciated

[K]

No worries. Happy to help.

If you're about to start working with Stock Photos, you can't really go wrong with...

http://www.sxc.hu

http://www.morguefile.com

Both good resources.

Boring bit coming up!

And if you're going to be honest about it, check the terms of use for each photograph. The photos I mentioned have no specific restrictions outside of the sxc standards, which are pretty lax. Obeying that stuff is a good habit to get into, should you ever get approached to do anything commercial, going straight to the royalty free stuff is a good way to avoid getting into trouble. Or if you're really serious, then you can start buying photographs.

End of boring bit.

Yeah. Cool. Happy to help.