Lesson 4
Flaming Hot Fire Text In Photoshop
Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop text effects tutorial, we’re going to learn how to create a fire text effect, engulfing our letters in burning hot flames. We’ll be using Photoshop’s powerful Liquify filter for most of the work on the flames themselves, but we’ll also be taking a look at the Wind filter, using adjustment layers to colorize the flames, layer styles for adding color to our text, layer masks for blending the flames with the letters, and more!
Here’s the result we’ll be working towards:
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The final “fire text” effect.
Let’s get started!
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Step 1: Create A New Blank Photoshop Document
Let’s begin by creating a new blank Photoshop document. Go up to the File menu at the top of the screen and choose New. Or, for a faster way to create a new document, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+N (Win) / Command+N (Mac). Either way brings up Photoshop’s New Document dialog box. Enter in the dimensions you need for your effect. For this tutorial, I’m going to enter 3 inches for my Width, 3 inches again for my Height, and for the Resolution value, I’ll enter 300 pixels/inch. When you’re done, click OK to exit out of the dialog box. Your new document will appear on your screen:
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Create a new Photoshop document using the New Document dialog box.
Step 2: Fill The New Document With Black
Since our flaming text probably won’t look very impressive against a white background, let’s fill our new document with black. For that, we’ll use Photoshop’s Fill command. Go up to the Edit menu at the top of the screen and choose Fill, or press Shift+F5 to select the Fill command with the keyboard shortcut:
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Go to Edit > Fill.
When the Fill dialog box appears, choose Black for the Contents at the top of the dialog box, which tells Photoshop that we want to use black as our fill color:
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Choose Black at the top of the Fill
Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop text effects tutorial, we’re going to learn how to create a fire text effect, engulfing our letters in burning hot flames. We’ll be using Photoshop’s powerful Liquify filter for most of the work on the flames themselves, but we’ll also be taking a look at the Wind filter, using adjustment layers to colorize the flames, layer styles for adding color to our text, layer masks for blending the flames with the letters, and more!
Here’s the result we’ll be working towards:
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The final “fire text” effect.
Let’s get started!
Download our tutorials as print-ready PDFs! Learning Photoshop has never been easier!
Step 1: Create A New Blank Photoshop Document
Let’s begin by creating a new blank Photoshop document. Go up to the File menu at the top of the screen and choose New. Or, for a faster way to create a new document, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+N (Win) / Command+N (Mac). Either way brings up Photoshop’s New Document dialog box. Enter in the dimensions you need for your effect. For this tutorial, I’m going to enter 3 inches for my Width, 3 inches again for my Height, and for the Resolution value, I’ll enter 300 pixels/inch. When you’re done, click OK to exit out of the dialog box. Your new document will appear on your screen:
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Create a new Photoshop document using the New Document dialog box.
Step 2: Fill The New Document With Black
Since our flaming text probably won’t look very impressive against a white background, let’s fill our new document with black. For that, we’ll use Photoshop’s Fill command. Go up to the Edit menu at the top of the screen and choose Fill, or press Shift+F5 to select the Fill command with the keyboard shortcut:
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Go to Edit > Fill.
When the Fill dialog box appears, choose Black for the Contents at the top of the dialog box, which tells Photoshop that we want to use black as our fill color:
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Choose Black at the top of the Fill