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Hot Fire Text Effect

posted by photoboy27

Learn how to make this cool hot fire text effect.

1. Create a new document. Fill the background with black and then type your text in white.

2. Now go to Filter > Stylize > Wind and use these settings:

3. Now go to Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 degree CW, and apply the Wind Filter again (or hit CTRL F). Rotate and repeat until the text is again in its normal position. It will now look like this:

4. Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and use these settings:

5. Go to Filter > Distort > Ripple and apply these settings:

6. Here is how your image should now look like.

7. Now you have to pay a little attention. Go to Image > Mode > Grayscale (a Flatten dialogue will show up, hit ok). Then go to Image > Mode > Indexed Color and now go to Image > Mode > Color Table and choose Black Body like this:

8. And here is our final result. Enjoy!