From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Type Effects

Setting your type on fire - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Type Effects

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Setting your type on fire

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- [Instructor] In this movie I would like to show you how to create this flame effect using the Flame filter. Here is my starting point and you can see that I've chosen a very thin, very mono white sensor of type face, and that's important for this technique to work well. This is a very processor intensive filter, and as much as you can simplify the path that you're going to apply the filter to, the better result that you will get, and certainly the quicker result that you'll get. So as I mentioned, path, the type needs to be converted to a path. So I'm going to come to my on fire type layer, right click, and then choose Create Work Path. Now I need to create a blank layer for the flame filter to be applied to. And turn off the original type layer. We can see that we have the active path selected, I'll come to the Filter menu, and come down to Render and then to Flame. You will likely get this warning message. It's telling you that because the path is long, the preview is only going to show the first 3000 pixels, and the rendering may be slow. I'm going to use this option, Multiple Flames in One Direction, and I'm going to increase the Flame length to 100. Randomizing the length, and the other settings I'm going to leave as they are. For the quality, I'm going to choose Medium, which is a good compromise between a reasonably fast rendering time, and decent quality. If you're working with a slower computer, you might want to choose Low as the rendering quality. And there is our result, I can now press Command or Control h to hide the path outlines. And then just to finish this off, I'm going to drag this layer above the type layer.

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