| Fire text is one of the most classic technique that you can see in Photoshop tutorials. I am trying out another version here using some real fire images, mix with filters and blending methods. Here we go! |
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| Create a document of a reasonable large size with black background. Using Type tool, with size 280pt and Trajan Pro font, type a number "1". You can download the font here. Otherwise you may also use other fonts of your preference. |
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| Right-click on the type and choose Blending Options. Check on Outer Glow and key in the following settings. |
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| Check on Color Overlay and key in the following settings. |
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| Check on Satin and key in the following settings. |
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| Check on Inner Glow and key in the following settings. |
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| Right-click on your type layer again and choose Rasterize. Using the Eraser tool with size 200px, fade off the top portion of the type. |
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| Go to Filter > Liquify. Select the Forward Warp Tool and key in the following settings. Using the Forward Warp tool, create some waves on the border of the type. |
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| Download the Fire image from Shaedsofgrey. Go to Channels tab and select the Green layer. Ctrl + left click on the Green layer to load selection of the highlight areas. |
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| Go back to Layers tab and use the Move Tool to drag any part of the selected area into the document with the "1" you done earlier. Place the fire above the type. |
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| Using the Eraser tool with 15px, erase all the excessive fire, leaving only those parts that is waving around the type. |
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| Duplicate the fire layer. Set the Opacity of the original fire to 30%. Set the Blend Mode of duplicated fire to Overlay. |
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| Repeat the processes to cover the type with more flames. And there you got your first flaming type! |
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| Create more flaming letters according to your own preferences. |
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| Download Premade Background from Chulii Stock. Resize and place the image into the document as shown below. |
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| Create a layer above the Premade Background and fill it with #000000. Set the Opacity of this layer to 50%. Use the Eraser tool to reveal the wooden floor. |
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| Create a new layer and name it as Glow. Paint 3 huge red dot with the Brush tool (Soft Rounded) as shown in the screenshot below. |
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| Set the Blend Mode of this layer to Color Dodge. We are done for this tutorial. Hope this will be useful for your future works.
PS: I will love and appreciate if you post a link to this tutorial on your site to share with your readers. But PLEASE do not copy the entire tutorial, embed it into your personal blog and make it look as if it is your own work… Thanks. |
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I am Johnson Koh, a graphic and web designer in Singapore. Founded 10Steps.SG in August 2008 with the purpose to share my experiments and interesting design news. 
Awesome one but i am stuck in nd 2nd step itslef pls help me
i crated d black background nd text nd d problem is u told to right click nd select blending options nd outerglow but i am not getting d color,spread size etc its showing me something different such as advanced blending fill opacity knockoutetc pls help meeee plsss
so cool .. you the best
Fantastic tutorial!! It’s the only one I’ve gotten to work so far. Thank you Mr. Koh. You’re very talented.
Here’s another great way to get a cool burning glow effect for the last step-
1. Right click your text layer and select “Duplicate Layer”
2. Move that duplicated layer under your original text layer
3. Go up and select Filter–>Blur–>Gaussian Blur. Set the radius to 20px or higher depending on your taste.
Good Luck!
Wonderful effect! Thanks for easy to follow tutorial
Awesome tutorial. Favorited!
Wow
it’s The Best Design Of His Kind That i have ever seen
it’s my Work With My name[OMAR]
I hope u like it
http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/3323/flamingomar.jpg
best fire effect absolutely fantastic ..
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Can you make an action of this, plzzz? Plss send to my e-mail, thank you so much…^^
Plager your tutorial John!
I’m your Fan
Link: http://photoshop.kingtutz.com/2009/10/22/scorching-fire-text/
WOOOW… super cool ^^
Good Job, and keep going
Very nice desing. Thx..
Check this out!
My face on fire in facebook using your awesome tut!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=130324
Hi, I’ve used this tutorial to make a invitation to school party
Check it out http://strajk.deviantart.com/art/Scary-school-party-140937927 and thanks 
Loved this tutorial. Easy. Looks awesome!
Here’s mine! http://www.flickr.com/photos/22069163@N03/3967292261/
tired that fire with that pic cant be done on sc3 did it in brushes there is no move like sc2 has
i jus njoyed dis concept…n tanx a lot…..u rokk!:)
Thank you for this tutorial!
Nice Tut, I enjoyed very much.
Hey Johnson ..Its an awesome tutorial
i’m newbie for Photoshop,when I drag fire to the Text ,The Fire was Grey and i can’t change it into Fire color like on your Tutorial..Please Help me
I’m follow every steps on your tutorial
If you are in channels, choose the green one like in tutorial. The CTRL + Click and you have a selection. Then choose the RGB channel to get color in your fire. If you put the fire to the text now, you should have colors ^^.
Have fun and GreeZ from Switzerland,
FreeZZa
hmm hey johnson.. awesome effect..:) i once saw some smoky letters on internet somewhere i don remember.. but it was all blue in color.. i thought ur creation is same with only the color change from blue to fire color..
How did you erase so good can you plz teach or put it on the tut because when i erase i get corners and all that in the pic plz teach us.
Hi Dhaval, I usually use the Eraser tool with Soft Round type and a reasonable large size (around 50px and above) for erasing such flames/waves images. Some trials and errors involved so make sure your History list is long enough to handle them.
wooooooooow, its realy coor work
great…
n thanks alot for this tutorial ,
keep posting mr.koh
Yes there are many fire text tuts out there. BUT YOURS IS THE BEST!
Nice Tutorial, Thankz
Awesome tutorial! Thanks a lot. Was real easy to follow.
Certainly is the best tut when we talk abou fire and typo
Congrats and thanks .. =)
just the link; http://ejiboo.fileave.com/Flaming-Nick-sample.jpg
Loved it. here’s what i have so far. i’ll go a lot further with it. popped it together in an hour with your awesome instruction. thanks!
[img]http://ejiboo.fileave.com/Flaming-Nick-sample.jpg[/img]
Loks cool. But I’m having issues with the erasing step near the beginning. Can you go into more detail about the settings u use? I’m a reletive n00b at this
It’s awesome.i never seen before.Thank you. it’s usefull for me.Again i apprciate you.Thank you very much.
thank for post.
Classy stuff mate
Very refined
i dont understand how too get the fire onto the text can you go into more detail please?
Great tutorial, I’m going to use it with my students. A useful tip might be to suggest the early steps could be saved as a action so you wouldn’t have to do so much work for the subsequent letters. : )
Johnson u are rocking man…
Haha thanks Lawrence. It’s great to see you again
Great Tutorial. Thanks..
i love it
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Awesome fire effect but i have a problem in erasing the fire because its density because when i erase the fire so it fit the letter it become so bad and when i use the green channel it loose its fire effect and become dark and ussles not like real fire thanks for the great tutorial and sorry for my bad grammar
I love this effect and I really surprised how simple you create the fire from a fire image.
You did great! Thanks you
so nice…we’re wating for next
nice, nice.. love it
Awesome effect and great explanation howto, thanks!
um everytime i try to chang the color of satin or outer lay etc the gray stays there and cant change the color
wow, that’s the best fire i’ve ever seen. Awesome!
I have a question. When you said to Ctrl + Left Click to select the highlighted areas, it just says that I could not use the move tool because not all channels were selected. But I am not even to that part yet.
Hi Fallon, after you done the Ctrl+left click on the Green Channel layer, select the RGB Channel layer again. Then go to Layers tab and you can use the Move tool from there. I am sorry for the lack of clarity on this.
Thank you so much. This is the best tutorial I have ever seen!
Another great one Johnson!
Great tutorial, thank you Johnson! You have a teaching method that makes it easy to understand for the novice.
Thanks again,
Craig~The 7thDwarf
Excellent tutorial easier than I thought it could be, thanks for this new way to create fire letters.
This fire text is actually different…….and thanks for such a well explained tutorial. I am sure it will come in handy for me. Thanks once
its really superb fire effect. you have done a good work. Congrats…………..
Hey
Awesome job on the tutorial,but i have problems already in the second step of the tutorial.I did a A4 Page and did it black and then put a font that i want but when i get to the blending options and put the outer glow,color overlay,satin and the inner glow,it doesn’t do like you have in the picture.
I tried a couple of time but it just comes out the same thing.
What do u think I did wrong?I hope you can help me!
One again you did a excellent tutorial!
Regards
Eran
Hi Eran, you may wish to adjust the values for each of the Blending Options. The values shown in this tutorial are meant for web sizes (approx 1000-1200 pixels). A4 Page with 300dpi is a rather high resolution. So every values have to be set higher in proportion as well. Let me know if you encounter further issues?
Amazing post bro, will surely come in handy for me.
you had such a great work over there with some good tips. thanks
why is that when i’m dragging the fire into the “1″ doc is has no color??it’s black and white..
Hi Jess, with the selection loaded (after ctrl+left click on the Green Channel), click on RGB Channel layer. Go back to Layers tab, and you can move the fire in color. Sorry for the confusion
excellent tutorial, thx for all your work and effort
i have the same problem and just cannot figure it out.
1. i download the image onto desktop
2. copy and paste into new tab in cs4
3. make green channel selection and click on rgb and i’m able to move the fire image around
4. how do i move it into original tab with the text? when i copy and paste from one tab to another, i just get the black/white version
please help!
Hi. I struggled a little with this myself but finally figured it out! You probably just misunderstood it like I did.
Basically, you need to MARK all the channels. What I did when I read this was to just click on the eye (show/hide) for all the channels, which is wrong, cause I still only had the green channel marked. Hope you understood what I meant.
Good luck!
And thanks for publishing one of the greatest tutorials I’ve seen so far!
wow..it’s HOT
It’s a great tutorial and very easy to follow thanks. Can it be translated to spanish?
Very nice tutorial. Getting this effect w/out a plugin is something most folks wouldn’t even try.
But that is also the fun of Photoshop isn’t it
I love this! Reminds me of Supernatural… awesome tv show.
Thanks Niyi! Great to hear from you again
That was a great tutorial…Thanks!!!
Thanks too
Thanks for the appreciations guys!
one of the better fire text tutorials around..
Awesome effect…thanks for this tutorial