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If you stare into a fire for any length of time you’ll fry your eyeballs and I don’t recommend it. However just before your eyeballs fry you’ll notice several things. Fire is semi-transparent. The flames appear to dance. And the hottest part of the fire appears to be bright white. We’ll look at techniques for achieving this effect in CorelDRAW and/or Xara with a little help from my image editing program of choice.

I normally never draw anything on paper anymore just because Byron Canfield said I must and I’m stubborn. In this rare instance, however, I did. The fluid nature of the flames was easier to capture on paper by using a technique called “slip-sheeting” where you begin with a rough drawing and then do successive tracings (slipping the drawing under a fresh sheet of tracing paper) until the drawing is satisfactory. I scanned the drawing and Imported it into DRAW as a bitmap file.

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