Fire Text

Today let’s check how to make a firing text using the Photoshop.

1. Open a 500×500 pixels document with Black as the background colour.

   

2. Create a Text on it. I’m using Arial font. Just Type “Photoshop”. Font colour should be white. Better to be in upper case. And Select the text layer and Go to Layer>>Rasterize>>Type.

   

3. Now duplicate the “photoshop” layer once. And Select the middle layer (“Photoshop”).

   

4. Now we want to create a wind effect to this text, for that rotate canvas 90CW. Image >> Rotate Canvas >>90CW. Now Go to Filter >> Stylize >> Wind. Click the direction from the left, and method as wind. Click OK. To make more effect press “Ctrl + Fthree times. Now rotate the canvas to 90 CCW. Image >> Rotate Canvas >> 90 CCW. “

   

5. To make more effect to the wind, Go to Filter >> Blur >> Gaussian Blur and set the radius to 2

   

6. The next step is to give our Photoshop layer a black background which will be needed for the next step. To do this, duplicate Layer 1 (our original background layer) and merge this duplicate layer with the blurred text layer we just made.

   

   It will look like this…

   

7. With the middle layer still selected, go to Filter->Liquify. St the brush size to 80, density to 11 and pressure to 92. Now take the Warp tool and push the streaks around to get a sort of rising “S” pattern over the letters. Then hit OK

   

8. Select the middle layer. Now go to Select Image->Adjustments->Hue/Saturation and select Colorize so we can fiddle with the color. Bring Saturation up to 100 and set Hue to about 40. Make sure the option “Colourize” is ticked.



9. Duplicate this colorized layer and select this duplicate. Then Go to Image->Adjustments->Hue/Saturation again, this time with Colorize off. Set the Hue to -20 to make the flames red. Set the Blending Mode of this duplicate layer to Overlay.

   

10. Select the “Photoshop copy” layer and click the transparency lock button.
11. Set foreground color to #f9e400 and the background color to #a36a06. Then click the gradient tool and draw. Finally it will look like this. You can also change the layer style.

    

That’s all. Enjoy the tutorial.