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Good tips, flaming pearl is a bit like swirl, Too damm easy.. Kids can do this from the age of 7... They call it experimenting.....

Original Post: "MELTDOWN, A PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL"

A artist named Michael Schwartz posted a piece titled "Meltdown" on ArtSig.com which is a "critiquing" site. He explained the piece was created from a digital photograph and put through a program called "Ulead PhotoImpact" which I was not familiar with. The first critique registered by another artist who gave it a "one-thumbs down" (-1 point) which isn't good. She didn't like the composition. The rating system goes from "three-thumbs up" to "three-thumbs down." By the time I critiqued it, it had gotten another rating of a "One-thumbs up (1 point)." So this gave his piece a "0" for his rating. I gave him a "one-thumbs up" rating. This what I said in my critique:

Hi Michael. I am going to pull you out of the "0" rating that you have as I write. I can see by looking at the rest of your work, you are a "master" of the "Ulead PhotoImpact" program. As are your photos first rate. I really like the effect that you achieved in "Meltdown." I myself don't really care what you shot to get this effect. It's a great element. That is not the important issue here. What is, is the composition.

I, like Jean Ann below, agree that something else should be done here and not to have just centered the "meltdown." I would try some of the suggestions below. I myself, would like to suggest what I would have done. As a user of PhotoShop, I would select the element then go to "transform" and lay the "meltdown," move it into the upper left-hand corner and add some extreme perspective so it looks like it is trailing away. Large in the lower left-hand corner, smaller in the upper right. I would even have keep the black background.

I would even try to repost if possible. I promise you that you will definitely rate much higher. Sincerely, Denny Karchner

This is the piece as he had posted it. Here is the link to that posting on ArtSig if you are interested. Just copy it and paste into your browser.

http://www.artsig.com/go/works/view?id=25065