Creating Fire Effects in Adobe Photoshop Elements

Video Transcript

"Now we are going to learn how to make a fire effect on text in Photoshop so start in your documents it's gray and we'll make it black. Let's get some text in there showing on the black, going to make it a bit bigger at 72 fire and let's drag this out a little bit bigger about there looks good. So first of all what we are going to do is we are going to go to transform and we are going to rotate that counter clockwise and we are going to go to filter, go to stylize, wind and ask and restorize it. Actually before we do that let's just copy that layer so we have an original version and won't tear that off. So on our fire copy we go to stylize, wind, yes we want to restorize that fire and we are going to go from the left, make sure it is on wind, say we have got some little spikes coming out and we are going to go wind again one more time and apply a dramatic effect on how we want to transform that back counter clockwise and it is sticking straight up. Now we want to play with the colons a bit and before we do that we want to layer it a little bit so let's go to gloss and blur and let's get down about 2.8 and play with it and get it however you want. Now we want to the colors so we will go to adjustments, go to hue saturation, go to colorize and drop the lightness a bit and try and get an orangy, that's a nice orangy yellow right there, let's duplicate that layer and we want to hold down our shift or command on that and merge those two lines together and we are going to go to liquify and make sure it is selected, the right size, I have got it around 15. We are going to create some movement, in the flames coming off now. Actually I might this a little bit bigger, make it about a 20/25 maybe might be good. Just wiggle around like flames would come off the text and click on it and wiggle it up and shrink it a little bit. So do a couple licks coming off here and there and I am just doing this really quickly for you guys so take your time with it as you should always, get it looking perfect. That might be enough for now and click o'kay and there you go we have got some nice movement now. I am going to duplicate that layer and I am going to go to layer styles and I am going to pick a light and duplicate that one again and get a couple more, get it looking real kind of firey and now get your original fire and bring that back up top and let's transform that back counterclockwise and bring that into the middle file so let's add an outer glow to it and there we go. That's how we create the fire effect on your text in Photoshop."