Explosion Effect

In this tutorial you'll learn how to make realistic looking explosions in Photoshop.

1.) First off all create a new Document 500 x 500 px. Set the Backgroundcolor to black.

2.) Now, choose the Lasso Tool and make a selection with irregular edges, just like I did in this tutorial.

3.) Fine. Now choose Red (255, 00, 00) as your foregroundcolor and yellow (255, 255, 00) as your backgroundcolor. Now use the Clouds-rendering filter>:
Filter > Render > Ñlouds

4.) Deselect your Selection and use the Gaussian Blur Filter
Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur
Set it's Radius to 40.

5.) Here we go. Create a new Layer. Layer > New > Layer.
Hit "D" on your keyboard to get the Standart colors ( black / white ).
Now use the Clouds-rendering filter again:
Filter > Render > clouds

6.) Now go to the Layermodes and choose Color Dodge as mode. To get it even more realistic try to experiment with the opacity or moving your effect layer.

That's all folks. Hope you liked it.