Help with painging particles with alpha

I am very new to skinning and painting. I want to make a fire particle buy I don't know how to do it right. Here are some atempts. To make them transparent I change the color of the picture to gray, with black background.

If someone would like to help with painting the image I uploeaded it as a psp file.

So, how to paint nice particles?

Try with ingame textures?

Ehm how to do? I have to convert so I can use it in max and I need some file to use as opacity map.

Convert the blp into a tga, open it in the material manager using the Warcraft III texture setting, and then apply all the options you want.

This is of course if you're using the art tools.

I do not. I use max8.

Then...forget everything I've just said. Sorry I can't help.

Converting issues...? Or is it help with the texture? Whats the problem here >.<

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