First Attempts at Lava

[Ascension]

This is a fun method that you have here...let's me experiment a lot. On the first image I did your steps without doing the color stuff and then duplicated the top lava layer, desaturate, brightness/contrast, fill chunks with black, delete whites, black outer glow at 100 size and then merged that down to the first lava layer and then did the color steps (but red only went to 50 on the shadow adjust on the lower lava layer) and on the top lava layer I set that to pin light and did a color select with yellow at 200 fuzziness and used that as a mask. This lets the lower lava layer show through and gets a bit of flow going without using the smudge tool. The second image I duplicated the top lava layer, desaturated it, set it to linear light, and then duplicated that again. Looks like the hell I've always been trying to create.

[Nytmare]

Oh man, that little dude is in so much trouble...


I had just been playing around with using the lava level itself to dictate where the land was living. Very very nice.