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Realistic Fire Effect

In this tutorial, i'll show you how to make realistic looking fire that you can apply to texts or any other shapes or objects..

Start a new RGB document (size around 600x600) filled with black background.
- Use the type tool and create a new text in WHITE and position the text centered in the lower half of the document.

Now create a new empty layer by clicking on the create new layer icon.

Now Press CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+E, this will combine all layers to the new layer.

Now roate the new layer 90CCW. (Edit » Transform » Rotate 90CCW)

Now apply the Wind Filter to this new layer (Filter » Styleize » Wind)
Method: Wind, Direction: From the Right.

Press CTRL+F 2 times to reapply the filter 2 more times.

Now rotate the image back to normal: Edit » Transform » Rotate 90CW

Now go to Filter » Blur » Gaussian Blur: enter 5.0 px

Now go to Image » Hue/Saturation
Check the "Colorize" Box.
Set Hue to 40 and Saturation to 100


Now Duplicate this layer, to do this, right click on the layer and choose "Duplicate Layer"
You should now have this:

Now apply some Hue saturation to the new duplicated layer:
Image » Adjustments » Hue Saturation:
Set Hue: -40

Now set the duplicated layer's blending mode to: Color Dodge

Now go to Layer » Merge Down To merge the 2 layers together.

Now to create our flames, we go to Filter » Liquidfy. Now with the Warp tool selected, set brush size to between 40 and 50, and brush pressure to around 40 to 45.

Now just click and drag from the white edge of the text to wiggle your way into the orange to create the flame.

CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW FULL SIZE

Next, change your brush size to about 30, and pressure to about 30, and go for 2nd round of creating your flame.

Once your happy with your flame, hit OK.

Now move the original text layer to the top on the layers pallete, and change it's color to black.

Now go to Layer » Rasterize » Type to rasterize the text layer. Now use the Eraser tool and select the 200px SOFT brush, and erase out the top half of the text.

Now, if you want to create a reflection, do a selection about half of the bottom part of the flame.

Press CTRL+SHIFT+C to copy, then CTRL+P to paste this as a new layer.

Now go to Edit » Transform » Flip Vertical, Then use the move tool to move the layer down just below the text. Set this layer's opacity to 20%. You can use the eraser tool with 200px soft brush to erase out the bottom part of the reflection.

HERE IS MY FINAL (DOWNLOAD PSD FILE)

 

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User Comments

DAVINCI Sep/03/2010 14:33GOOD JOB.....IS THE BEST TUTOR....SIMPLE AND EASY...
valeron Aug/21/2010 16:16if you follow every step you will sure do this. I worked with other colors because i wanted a special flame and put a style on the original text and it looks great. (sorry for my bad english
Irene Kurta May/29/2010 01:34I want to ask the author a lesson with such a request! I need your written permission to translate this tutorial resource arttower.ru (under the copyright agreement). If you do not mind, send me a reply to email irka_linkin@mail.ru
Manish May/11/2010 19:39Good tutorial, thanks
Deepak Bhadauria Apr/28/2010 16:00hi, my name is deepak bhadauria. i am working photoshop in last 9 years. but i am not expert in special effects in photoshop. plz guide me. how to expert in photoshop special effects.
Andy Apr/08/2010 00:25some of these comments are pretty harsh i came across this tutorial a while ago for my college project it helped me out loads and again im coming back to refresh my memory to use it for a commercial product well thats what i hope to acomplish. So for all you whinners out there, if you dont have a use for it dont use it other will have a use, and if you dotn understand this then either photoshop isnt for you or you need to learn the very basics of photoshop first. this is one of the simplist things to do in photoshop, fire is easy now try and do ice! and see how well you do.
nomore shit Mar/26/2010 05:58this sucks monkey balls this fucken stupid
hhhyy Mar/26/2010 05:01yhyhhhhh
why do you care Mar/26/2010 02:19u do not konw how to spell
ur mom Mar/25/2010 23:45the instructions suck
MKEezyFBaby Mar/23/2010 23:46Da Instructions r a piece of shit. its a fuckin ass fuck
dickey Mar/22/2010 23:59these are the fuckin dumbest set of instructions ever
dickey Mar/22/2010 23:49u dont know wat the fuck ur talking about get a life its could a job bitch
kbtechnocrate Feb/24/2010 03:25Awesome Tutorial, i fell into some difficulty when it came to adjusting the Hue, also my photoshop doesn't have mege down, but merge seemed to do the job. This tutorial can be easily understood by anyone with moderate photoshop skills. Looks like the same way they made the logo for that hit tv show american chopper.
JD Dec/23/2009 16:14Thanks, I've been looking for a good fire-text tutorial!!!!
Madea Dec/12/2009 07:36holy jesus... you bad you bad, this thing right here... is off da chane!
bivishan Oct/16/2009 22:41hot.................................. very hot
phonie Aug/20/2009 05:59Stolen from http://photoshoptechniques.com/texp/fireptk.php
oye Jul/29/2009 16:26oye
staya Jun/16/09 20:31it's very hot guru
metal arsonist May/17/09 18:21Nice tutorial, very clear. First, some people have to acquire some skills with photoshop tools. This is woeful easy to learn. Cheerz!
kinii May/6/09 11:15tweezle is lame
Madanator May/6/09 11:01training to be an arsonist ,nice...
tweezle May/6/09 10:32when will i use this ??!! wtf
person May/5/09 08:35=P
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