Bill Rosener: Well, this is Dr. Bell. Welcome back in this video. You know how to create some flames using adobe Photoshop. So we'll be taking some text and making them look like it's on fire.
Bill Rosener: Well, the 1st step you wanna do is go ahead and open up adobe Photoshop, and we'll be creating a somewhat large image compared to what we've been working with. So the very 1st step I'm gonna do is come up here to file new file new.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna go 1,024
Bill Rosener: pixels and width.
Bill Rosener: and I'm gonna go 768 pixels in height and
Bill Rosener: 300 pixels per inch. So make sure 1024 pixels, and then 300 pixels per month on the resolution, and then go ahead and press. Create.
Bill Rosener: Okay? The 1st thing I want to do is get this a black
Bill Rosener: so easy way to do that would be press on the default foreground background. Icon, that's gonna get your foreground color to black. Now I want to select the whole thing, and I could use the rectangle marquee and select it all, or I can come up here and go select all
Bill Rosener: and grab it on.
Bill Rosener: and I just want to fill it. And to do that I'm gonna come right up here to edit, fill
Bill Rosener: foreground color normal, whatever percent and press. Okay.
Bill Rosener: okay. Now, I want to get some white text
Bill Rosener: to do that. I'm going to go ahead and press on the type tool.
Bill Rosener: And I can see here is the font color, but a lot of times when I simply toggle these.
Bill Rosener: and then I'll I'll do that one right here. I can see the font color has automatically changed away.
Bill Rosener: And I'm just gonna go ahead and press right here. And I'm gonna type a fire.
Bill Rosener: And I've got aerial black. Let's go with a much thicker font size or larger font size. I'm gonna go with a 280 oops. 1st of all, select the text.
Bill Rosener: then come up here
Bill Rosener: and change
Bill Rosener: the font size to 2 80, and depending on your whether your 1st name, last name. You may want that a little bit larger, a little bit smaller.
Bill Rosener: Okay? Well, the next step we want to do is well before I even move that and add the flames and some wind. We need to take these 2 layers.
Bill Rosener: and I'm going to deselect make sure that this is selected there, and I want to create another layer that has both of this on it.
Bill Rosener: What I could do is duplicate, flyer, duplicate the background and then merge those but an easier approach.
Bill Rosener: And here's the keyboard shortcut control alt shift, E,
Bill Rosener: so I'm going to go ahead and hold the control.
Bill Rosener: the Alt. Press the shift and then press the and that's going to take the the text and the background and create another layer.
Bill Rosener: Now, what I need to do is add some wind and wind goes in an East West direction there. So I'm gonna come up here and go edit
Bill Rosener: transform. And I'm gonna go 90 degrees counterclockwise.
Bill Rosener: Next step I'm gonna do is like I'm gonna go ahead and add some wind. And to do that I'm gonna come up here to filter.
Bill Rosener: and we go to stylize
Bill Rosener: and down here towards wind.
Bill Rosener: and you can see I'm coming from the right, and that's the direction I want to go so we can see a little bit here on the top of the letters here and press Ok.
Bill Rosener: And let's get that even more pronounced. It's just barely visible.
Bill Rosener: So now what I can do since that was the last command, I can just stop, press right here on, when or I could press.
Bill Rosener: control all F,
Bill Rosener: and let me do that one more time.
Bill Rosener: Okay, so I've done that 3 times. Now we're going to simply rotate this back.
Bill Rosener: So I'm gonna go to edit transform.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna go rotate 90 degrees clockwise this time.
Bill Rosener: And if I want, maybe I'll reposition this text a little bit over here.
Bill Rosener: Okay, and maybe let's go ahead and blur that to blur it. I'm going to come up here and filter. I'm going to go to blur and Gaussian blur.
Bill Rosener: and I've got mine. It's set at 7, so we'll go ahead and do a Gaussian blur of 7.
Bill Rosener: Now I'm going to add kind of an orange tent to this
Bill Rosener: to do that. I'm going to come up here to image.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna go to adjustments.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna go to hue saturation.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna go ahead and press the colorize button.
Bill Rosener: And I'm gonna change. The hewed about 40
Bill Rosener: and the saturation
Bill Rosener: to 100,
Bill Rosener: and then I'll press so colorize 100 saturation, 40 on the hue and press. Okay.
Bill Rosener: now, I'm kind of sure create more of a red tent. And to do that I'm going to duplicate this layer so I could control JI could drag it down to the create new layer. I can or I, just right click, right click and choose duplicate layer.
Bill Rosener: And okay.
Bill Rosener: now, what I'm gonna do.
Bill Rosener: let's kind of create a red tent. And to do that very similar to the second ago, I'm like an image adjustments. I'm going to choose hue saturation
Bill Rosener: this time. I'm not going to press the colorize button, but I'm going to decrease the hue, and I'm going to go with a minus 40 on the hue.
Bill Rosener: Okay, now I'm gonna go ahead and on the layers window.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna come right over here and I'm gonna go to color dodge. I'm gonna change that to color dodge.
Bill Rosener: Then I'm going to take these 2 layers and merge down.
Bill Rosener: So it's going to combine those 2 layers.
Bill Rosener: What I could have done is if I ever wanted to is, I could turn these layers, make them not visible. Then I could right click, and I could go merge visible, since those are only 2 layers that are visible
Bill Rosener: or like I just did, I can right click and merge down. That's gonna take that one layer and merge it on down.
Bill Rosener: And now we're tired ready to start adding some like, I'm gonna say, some real flames to do that. I'm gonna come up here to filter.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna choose liquify.
Bill Rosener: and that's going to kind of open it up in a separate little window here.
Bill Rosener: and what you can do is decrease that I bet my brush size here at
Bill Rosener: 91. Maybe you can start off with a 50, and you can see the size of that circle kind of small. I'm gonna change that to a hundred, just to go a little quicker here
Bill Rosener: and see where I'm kind of positioned my cursor. If you want to get some of the white.
Bill Rosener: come up, just go ahead, and so I'm just going to go ahead and press and drag.
Bill Rosener: So kind of press here, press and just keep holding and drag it out. Maybe. Now I kind of grab a little bit more.
Bill Rosener: Okay, I'm gonna call that gun.
Bill Rosener: Okay. So now, we've kind of got some flames on top of our letters.
Bill Rosener: Okay, now, what we're gonna do is we're gonna take the fire
Bill Rosener: and we're gonna duplicate it. So I can right click on it and duplicate layer.
Bill Rosener: Okay? And now I'm gonna drag. I'm gonna 1st of all. Drag this to the top.
Bill Rosener: I'm going to drag it right up here to the top, or I can drag layer one down, and then I'm going to go ahead and change this to Black.
Bill Rosener: It's I'm gonna select the tax.
Bill Rosener: change the foreground
Bill Rosener: to black and hit. Okay.
Bill Rosener: and maybe I'll move that over just a little bit.
Bill Rosener: Okay? And then maybe I think I even had it
Bill Rosener: kind of a little lighter at the top and darker at the bottom.
Bill Rosener: And to do that, I'm just going to go ahead and select this text.
Bill Rosener: And then I'm going to go ahead and do a gradient fill.
Bill Rosener: So I'm gonna start here.
Bill Rosener: And actually, since I'm going this direction, I think I wanted it lighter at the top. Maybe something
Bill Rosener: you can actually go different directions
Bill Rosener: like so.
Bill Rosener: or if you want, even start up higher
Bill Rosener: and just kind of come part way in.
Bill Rosener: Okay, now we've got that. Let's go ahead. And the final step is going to be recreating a reflection. So in both of these cases you can see over here the word
Bill Rosener: FI re fire. I'm getting a reflection. Same thing here on my name. That's gonna be the last step.
Bill Rosener: So to do that, we're going to go ahead again. We're going to hit the control alt shifty.
Bill Rosener: And that's going to take all this information and create a new layer with it.
Bill Rosener: So I'm going on the top layer
Bill Rosener: control alt shift any.
Bill Rosener: and that has created a new layer.
Bill Rosener: Now, all I need to do is I'm gonna come up here to edit, and I'm gonna choose free transform edit free transform.
Bill Rosener: And I'm going to drag the top
Bill Rosener: this, this hair cursor right here is the top.
Bill Rosener: I'm gonna drag it down. Now, here's the tricky part. I'm gonna take the bottom
Bill Rosener: and actually go above.
Bill Rosener: And maybe I'll take this one on down further.
Bill Rosener: and I'll even take this one.
Bill Rosener: That's good right there, that's fine.
Bill Rosener: and I'm just going to go ahead and press on the rectangle marquee.
Bill Rosener: and you can see if you take a look over here I turned off all these other eyes. What is available
Bill Rosener: visible? And I'm gonna go ahead and highlight all this.
Bill Rosener: and then I'm going to press the delete on the keyboard, which is going to delete that black area.
Bill Rosener: Maybe I'll hit a control. D, I'll use the move tool.
Bill Rosener: Move this on up a little bit, and then the last step here is we're going to decrease the opacity, and I'd go down to maybe like 20.
Bill Rosener: 26 is looking good here. So anyway, decrease the opacity so that it looks like it. There is a reflection there
Bill Rosener: and then. Finally, the last step would be to come up here to file, go to save a copy.
Bill Rosener: and I would choose, if you want, if you knew you wanted to come back up, save it in Pst format. But if you're happy with your final image, just go ahead and call this one
Bill Rosener: assignment 35
Bill Rosener: dot. Jpeg.
Bill Rosener: okay, well, hopefully, in this video, you learned how to
Bill Rosener: had some fire, some flames to some text. I'll catch the next video. Thanks a lot back.