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PUTTING YOUR TYPE ON FIRE
This is a pretty cool trick for setting your type on fire.
Step one:
Open a new grayscale image (note: it must be grayscale at this point). Fill the background layer
with black. Make white your foreground color, then create your type. Render your type by going
under the Layer menu, under Type, and choosing Render Layer.
Step two:
Go under the Layer menu and choose Duplicate layer. When the Duplicate Layer dialog appears, at
the bottom of the dialog, change your destination to New and click OK. This will duplicate your type
layer to a new document. We'll need this layer later in the problem.
Step three:
Switch back to your original document. Merge your Type layer with the background layer by pressing
Command-E (PC: Control-E). Go under the Edit menu, under Rotate Canvas and choose 90 degrees
clockwise. Then go under the Filter menu, under Stylize, and choose Wind. In the Wind dialog box,
make sure your chosen method is "Wind" and that your direction is "From the Right", then click OK.
Press Command-F (PC: Control-F) to run this same filter, with the same settings, again.
Step five:
Go under the Edit menu, under Rotate Canvas and choose 90 degrees COUNTER clockwise (CWW).
Then under the Filter menu, under Stylize, choose Diffuse. See that it's set to Normal, then click OK.
Step six:
Go under the Filter menu, under Blur, and choose Gaussian Blur. Add a 2-pixel blur.
Step seven:
Go under the Image menu, under Mode, and choose Indexed Color. Then go back under the Image
menu, under Mode, and choose Color Table. In the Color Table dialog, in the pop-up menu at the
top, choose "Black Body" and click OK. Then go under the Image menu yet again, under Mode, and
choose RGB.
Step eight:
Switch to the other document (remember--it's the one with the duplicate of our text layer--it looks
blank because it's white text on a white background). Go under the Layer menu and choose
Duplicate layer. When the Duplicate Layer dialog appears, at the bottom of the dialog, change your
destination to the name of your main document (the one where we're building the fire) and click OK.
Your type layer will appear in exactly the same place as it was earlier, before the duplication.
Step nine:
Press the letter "d" to set your foreground color to black, then press Shift-Option-Delete (PC:
Shift-Alt-Backspace) to fill your text with black. Lastly go under the Filter menu, under Distort, and
choose Ripple. In the Ripple dialog box, choose 27 for amount, and for size choose Large, and click
OK to complete the effect.
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