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[leo]

Fire effect, a very easy way of giving your text or an object some flames.

Open up a new document and set the background to black and type in your words (in white)



Duplicate the text layer and then hide the original one by clicking on the eye next to it in the layers palette.

Go to Filter - Stylize and choose wind



apply the wind twice from the right and then twice from the left, you should get something like the following:


now rotate the canvas 90º clockwise (image - rotate canvas) and apply the wind twice from the left, then rotate your image back 90º counter clockwise, you should now get this


Go to filter - distort - ripple and apply the default settings

Now go to filter - blur - guassian blur and apply the default setting.

Go to image - mode and select greyscale, accept flatten image.

Next go back to image - mode and select indexed color, then choose from the same menu - color table, from the drop down menu choose black body:



Ok we pretty much have our flames now:


Now change the image mode back to rgb and then type your text again, giving it a yellow outer glow from layer - layer style - outer glow


this should be your result:)


optional effect - shadow text, at end duplicate text layer, remove outerglow - edit transform - flip vertical, move it down with the move tool, rasterize the text in layer - rasterize - type, finally go to edit - transform - distort and distort it to get the desired effect

[Timo]

Wow, I thought it would look cheezy... That looks really good, thanks Leo.

[Josh]

Very nice leo

Have you submitted to good-tutorials?

[Daniel8_9_3]

pretty cool i can do some of those steps in Fireworks MX 2004 not sure if i can do the whole thing though

[leo]

cheers, not bad ain't it

havent submitted it yet but will do. Not sure if you can do all of it in fireworks

[Daniel8_9_3]

I can do the wind effect in fireworks it has that feature it may be possible to do it in fireworks im gonna see if theres a way.

[Joe]

nice one leo

i really must start work on a new tutorial

[Daniel8_9_3]

well this response is a little late but oh well better late than never....

i didnt get the 'same effect' in fireworks but i got pretty cool results nonetheless.

Check it out

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[Josh]

pretty cool dan

[Joe]

more kind of a lava effect really, but good nevertheless

[Daniel8_9_3]

another one fireworks mx2004

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[Daniel8_9_3]

yeah that first one kind of does look like lava actually or thermonulclear meltdown
the second one looks better.

[Daniel8_9_3]

heres a third type where the flames kind of shoot outward from a centralized area.

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[BADDIST1]

Thank you for posting this thread. I found this site on and find it a useful resource in my quest to learn web design.

P.S. Don't haze me cause I'm a N00B

By the way all those pics are sweet!

This post has been edited by BADDIST1: Jun 11 2004, 07:37 AM

[leo]

Welcome aboard baddist1

hehe, don't worry, we're "n00b" friendly , all our tutorials are geared to help the beginner advance in web site design and marketing

May i ask what search terms you found weborum under? i like to keep track of how it's doing in the search engines and which keywords it appears for

Leo