[Dramatic Fire Text]

omg, its been over a decade since i made this tut and i totally forgot about it right after posting it! absolutely loooooove everyone's responses! shout out to @Ella@MJWand WOW @Maximilian@LoudSilencei really love what you've done with the tut and the birbs

 

also HUGE shout out to @ReMakefor saving the post there's no way i would have still had the original images!

 

randomly seeing this thread all these years later has made my day  

BONUS: i decided to follow my tutorial for old times sake and felt like adding an extra layer of black text with a highlight to give in an almost action-movie vibe

[Dramatic Fire Text]

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This is a tutorial on how to make dramatic fire text like this:

 

1] Start with a black background and another layer with orange text saying whatever you want. I recommend using a classical like font because it works better with them. [it could be any color just orange looks the best.]

 

2] Magic wand select the text with global on, and at 69% -ish tolerance. Then with orange as primary and brown as secondary do a linear gradient like this:

 

3] Then duplicate that layer twice so that there are three of them like this:

 

4] On the "Small" Layer use a Gaussian Blur to about 10 radius:

 

5] On the "Large" Layer use a Gaussian Blur to about 80 radius:

 

6] Merge all of the text layers down to one like this:

 

7] On a new layer above the text layer, render a black and white clouds.

 

Then set that clouds layer to "Color Dodge"

 

8] Merge all of those layers to one and You Did It!!

You can also set the layer properties to make the text look different:

It looks cool with: Color Burn, Additive, Reflect, Glow, Difference, Lighten, and Screen