Adding flame to a fake fireplace

I know it's always going to look fake to anyone who knows that it's a gas fire, but for the sake of making a non-functioning, fake fireplace look like it's got a cheery blaze going on, can anyone suggest a good method?

I've added flames from a geniune fireplace and sort of painted with a low opacity soft brush around the edges of the logs to give a glow the colour of the flames. Has anyone got better suggestions to make a fire look real?

Thanks in advance,
Jo

MsCynic wrote in news:ChB2f.17110$iM2.1401124
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I know it's always going to look fake to anyone who knows that it's a gas fire, but for the sake of making a non-functioning, fake fireplace look like it's got a cheery blaze going on, can anyone suggest a good method?

I've added flames from a geniune fireplace and sort of painted with a low opacity soft brush around the edges of the logs to give a glow the colour of the flames. Has anyone got better suggestions to make a fire look real?

Thanks in advance,
Jo

Yeh, thats right just paste in a photo of a real fire and feather the edges. Trick is finding a good fire image

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Yeh, thats right just paste in a photo of a real fire and feather the edges. Trick is finding a good fire image

Thanks for replying. Had a photo on disk of a fireplace when the fire was actually going. No one has actually noticed it's fake yet.

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I know it's always going to look fake to anyone who knows that it's a gas fire, but for the sake of making a non-functioning, fake fireplace look like it's got a cheery blaze going on, can anyone suggest a good method?

I've added flames from a geniune fireplace and sort of painted with a low opacity soft brush around the edges of the logs to give a glow the colour of the flames. Has anyone got better suggestions to make a fire look real?

Thanks in advance,
Jo

Yeh, thats right just paste in a photo of a real fire and feather the edges. Trick is finding a good fire image

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

I would use a photo of fire too but you may find better result using some blending modes than on normal.

Alien Skin Eye Candy has a nice fire plugin. Fools most of my clients

Robert Strom

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:47:27 +1300, MsCynic
wrote:

I know it's always going to look fake to anyone who knows that it's a gas fire, but for the sake of making a non-functioning, fake fireplace look like it's got a cheery blaze going on, can anyone suggest a good method?

I've added flames from a geniune fireplace and sort of painted with a low opacity soft brush around the edges of the logs to give a glow the colour of the flames. Has anyone got better suggestions to make a fire look real?

Thanks in advance,
Jo

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I know it's always going to look fake to anyone who knows that it's a gas fire, but for the sake of making a non-functioning, fake fireplace look like it's got a cheery blaze going on, can anyone suggest a good method?

I've added flames from a geniune fireplace and sort of painted with a low opacity soft brush around the edges of the logs to give a glow the colour of the flames. Has anyone got better suggestions to make a fire look real?

Thanks in advance,
Jo

Many years ago, codes changed to only allow gas fireplaces. While some can be "tuned" to produce acceptable results, most were rather anemic for ad shots. I scanned most of my older shots (done using Pine Mountain fake logs, which worked well in real fireplaces) and began dropping these into the gas-log units for my clients. With a bit of Skew, and some Layer Mask(ing), they were the cure-all. Now, if one did not have access to a stock of real fireplaces, it does make the task a bit harder.

As some have suggested, the AlienSkin Fire effect might work. I have it, but have never used it.

Hunt