Viddler

How to make Fire

In this first step we will start by creating the fire text as white, rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise, on a black background.
Go to File, New and set the document size to 8x10, Mode RGB color, Under Contents click White.
To make the Background black, press Command-I for Mac or Control-I for PC. This inverts the white background to black.
Over a black background layer create the white type layer FIRE with the type tool and hit Enter. Make sure your font is this and relatively big. Position the type with the Move tool
Now make a new layer above them by clicking on the create new layer icon
Transform Layer 1 90 degrees counter clockwise with Edit, Transform, Rotate 90 CCW.
In this step we run four wind filtrations on the merged layer then rotate it back.
With Layer 1 active go to Filter, Stylize, Wind. Leave the dialog set to defaults and click OK. Repeat the filtration three more times. Use Cmd + F or Ctrl + F to repeat the last filtration.
Now rotate Layer 1 90 degrees clockwise with Edit, Transform, Rotate 90 CW.

Now we will Blur and colorize Layer 1.
With Layer 1 active go to Filter, Blur, Gaussian Blur. In the dialog box set the Radius to 7.5 pixels and click OK.
Now go to Image, Adjust, Hue/Saturation or Cmd + U or Ctrl + U. In the Hue dialog box click the Colorize button, set the Hue to 40, the Saturation to 100 and click OK.
Duplicate Layer 1 and make it red.
Duplicate Layer 1 by dragging it to the create new layer icon or with Cmd + J or Ctrl + J to create Layer 1 copy.
With Layer 1 copy active, go to Image, Adjust, Hue/Saturation or Cmd + U or Ctrl + U. Set the Hue to -40 and click OK.
Note: The shortcut names layers differently as in Layer 2 instead of Layer 1 copy.
The resulting layer should look like Figure 4b and the document like Figure 4a.
Set Layer 1 copy to Color Dodge mode and merge down.
With Layer 1 copy active, go to the Mode dro