The first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to create a New Text Layer, so I'm going to
click on the Text Tool. I'm going to make sure that Times New Roman is my font. You
should have that font installed in your computer. And I'm just going to disable this final group
and we're going to start it from scratch. So I'm going to create a solid coloróblack,
press OK. With the text we selected I can just click right in the middle of the canvass
and type "F" and I'm using this orange color as my Foreground Color. Then I can press Ctrl
Enter, Command Enter to exit the Text Tool. I can press V on the keyboard to access the
Move Tool, then I can hold Shift Alt, Shift Option on the Mac, click on one of the corner
handles and drag out to scale the letter F and make it a little bit larger, and we're
going to work just with this one character.
The next thing we're going to do is create a flame, so we're going to use the Flame Generator
in Photoshop for that. So I'm going to click on the Pen Tool and we're going to create
a Path, and that Path is what the Flame Generator is going to use to place the flame in our
composition. I'm just going to Click and Drag to make a Path, and this is where our flame
is going to go. Once I get to the end, I can just press Escape on the Keyboard to complete
that path. Also, notice that when I was creating the path, you can see this preview outline
over the path is going to end up. If you don't see that, you can go into this icon here in
the Options Bar and make sure Rubber Band is checked. Let me uncheck this so you can
see the difference. See there's no Preview. I don't know how the path is going to look
until I set it. That's because the Rubber Band is disabled. Once you enable it, you
can see the Preview. So I'm just going to Undo those changes and just stay with the
original path that we created. And, by the way, I'm hitting Ctrl Alt Z, Command Option
Z on the Mac to Undo.
For now we have this Path, and what I'm going to do now is Create a New Layer and I'm going
to call it "Flame," then I'm going to go to the Filter Menu, under Render, I'm going to
click on Flame, and this is going to bring up the Flame Generator. And from here, we
have a lot of options to create the flame around this path. You can choose any number
of different Flames. I'm going to stick with the first one, which is One Flame Along Path,
and for now, I can leave the settings at Default. You can come and make adjustments if you want
to. I'm not going to do so just because I want to see what my default settings are going
to do. And then I'm just going to press OK. Photoshop is then going to Render your Flame,
and if you're not happy with the flame, you can just Undo and go back into the Flame Generator,
and, maybe, adjust some of the settings to get a different flame. But this is going to
be okay for this tutorial, so I'm just going to stick with this flame, and what I'm going
to do is I'm getting into the Path Panel and just delete the work path. We don't need it
anymore and I don't want it to be distracting us as we work, so I'm just going to go ahead
and delete it from the Path Panel.
At this point, you can also use the Move Tool to change the position of the Flame. You can
rotate it, you can scale it, you can distort it. You can do anything you like to it in
order to better position it in your scene, so I'm just going to place my flame here;
then I'm going to hold Ctrl Command and Click on the Text icon of the Text Layer to make
a selection around the text. Then I'm going to hold Alt, Option on the Mac, and click
under New Layer Mask icon to make a Layer Mask that hides everything that was selected,
which was the letter F in this case. If I hold Alt and click on the Layer Mask icon,
I can see my mask. Everything in black is hidden and everything in white is being revealed.
I'm going to hold Alt, Option on the Mac, and click again on the thumbnail to bring
that back.
What I can do now is, with my Brush Tool, I can paint with white in areas where I want
my flame to show through. I'm, actually, going to use a small Soft Brush, maybe something
like this, and I'll increase the size of that brush just a little bit by tapping on the
right bracket key on my keyboard and just bring in some of those flames back. So now
it looks like a fire is wrapping around the text. What I'm going to do now is I'm going
to actually give the text some shape, so I'm going to double click to the right of it and
I'm going to bring up the Layer Style Window, and just to make sure, I'm going to click
on this icon here and click on Reset to Default List. And, also, I'm going to click on the
Bevel and Emboss, but before I make any changes, I'm just going to click on Reset to Default,
just to make sure we're all looking at exactly the same settings. Then I'm going to click
on Contour, back in Bevel and Emboss, I'm going to change the Gloss Contour and this
down pointing arrow and we saw the different contours that we have that will make adjustments
to the text. You can actually click on this icon here to the right and choose Contours
here at the very bottom, press OK and you're going to get more. And this is going to give
you more Contours. It will give a different Bevel Effect to your image, but the one I'm
going to use is this one here; the one that has two peaks. Then I can play around with
the Size, Depth, until I find something that I'm happy with. I'm going to leave the Lighting
by Default, add an Angle of 120 degrees, and an Altitude of 30 degrees. I can, maybe, add
a little bit more Opacity to the Highlight and make the Shadows a little bit darker as
well, then I'm going to press OK.
I'm going to click on this up pointing arrow to collapse the Layer Styles just so we have
a little more room to work with, and I want to create a Black and White Adjustment Layer
that is going to turn everything Black and White. But I only want this Layer to affect
the Text Layer, so I'm going to click on this icon here, which will turn it into a Clipping
Mask. You can also press Ctrl Alt G, Command Option G on the Mac if you make a Clipping
Mask. At this point, if you like, you can play around with the reds and yellows, which
will make areas of your image darker and brighter in areas that contain those colors. So I'm
just going to darken them up just a little bit to get more of a darker Chrome Effect,
and I'm going to click on the Layer Mask, and I'm going to press Ctrl I, Command I on
the Mac, to Invert. That turns the Layer Mask black, which, in turn, hides everything. Now,
I can paint with white to reveal some of that Black and White. And so, what I want to do
is I'm going to paint in certain areas to bring back the effect. But before I do so,
I'm going to bring down the Opacity of my brush and the Flow as well, maybe around 50,
54, and 56. I can just paint here at the bottom and in the edges.
So what's going on here is that we have a Chrome Text, it's on fire, and since it's
reflecting some of that fireósome of those are orange and in some areas are just chrome,
like here at the bottom and on the tips. So, essentially, the orange is a highlight. What
I'm going to do now is I'm going to create a Curves Adjustment Layer and I'm just going
to give it a little bit of a Contrast, but, again, I only want to affect the text below
it, so I'm going to click on this icon to make that into a Clipping Mask, and I'm just
going to create some Contrast here, creating an S Curve, like so. I don't want to make
that too dark, and this looks okay.
Now I'm going to create a solid color and I'm going to choose Dark Red, and, again,
I'm going to make that into a Clipping Mask. This time I'm going to press Ctrl Alt G, Command
Option G on the Mac. I'm going to click on the Layer Mask icon, press Ctrl I, Command
I on the Mac, it Inverts it to black. You could, also, fill it with black if you like,
hides everything, and then I can paint with white to reveal some of that red. And I want
the red to be somewhat of the transitioning color between the orange here and the gray.
You can, actually, get some of that red almost all the way to the end there, but there's
very little gray from red, and if the effect is too strong, you can just bring down the
Opacity just a little bit. It's a very subtle effect. So, now, this looks a little bit hotter.
What I'm going to do now is I want to Create a New Layer, and we're going to create some
of the highlights in the text that's being caused by the flame, and I'm just going to
paint with white, so I'm going to press D on the keyboard to get my default colors Black,
foreground color; white, background color then I'm going to press X to Invert those. So,
now, white is my foreground color. And I'm also going to bring the Opacity to 100%, Flow
to 100%, and I'm just going to paint with white there. I'm going to go into my Blend
Mode and select Linear Dodge and I'm, actually, going to place that on top of every other
layer, just so I can show you how this works.
Apparently, things just look white. And what we're going to use this layer for is to make
things look hotter and brighter, but, currently, it just looks like a white stroke even though
we have the Linear Dodge Blend Mode. What we're going to do is double click on that
Layer, and it's going to bring up the Layer Style Panel. Notice what happens when I uncheck
this box. Did you see that? Look at the edges here. The edges become hotter and brighter,
see that? So, by unchecking this box, the pixels blend differently and it creates that
hotter effect. So I'm going to press OK, then I'm going to press Ctrl T, Command T on the
Mac, to Transform. I'm going to hold Shift Alt, Shift Option on the Mac, and Scale this
in, and we're going to create Highlight here on the edge where the fire is. The area that
is hottest. And we can place that right about here. I want to Scale that in as, maybe, somewhere
there and I can use the arrow keys on the keyboard to move that around. I'm going to
press V on the keyboard and then tap on those keys. I will, also, maybe, give it a little
bit of burst. I'm going in to Filter, Blur, Gaussian Blur, and just blur that a bit more,
just so you can get that hot bright effect you see here, and then I'm going to press
OK. Then I can press Alt, Option on the Mac, where that same layer is selected, Click and
Drag to create a Duplicate.
This duplicate, we're going to use to give highlights in other areas of the image. What
I'm going to do is I'm going to click on Edit, Puppet Warp, then click on Show Mesh, so I
can see the Mesh, and I'm going to add some points here, so I can hit that into position
right about here, like so, then I'm going to press Enter on the keyboard. And I can
also use the Eraser Tool to erase areas that I'm not happy with, and I'm going to move
that around just a little bit more, just so I can place it into position, and what I want
to do is on the Black and White Layer, I want to hide some areas, just so I can get a little
bit more orange there and it looks a little bit hotter, like so. I can also use a Smudge
Tool in this Layer here so I can add or blend that into the text. And now we have a really
nice highlight here, and it's also hot because we brought some of that orange back. And another
thing you can do is press Ctrl J, Command J on the Mac, to make a Duplicate of the Layer
you're currently on, and you can use that Duplicate and move it somewhere else in your
composition, and just distort it so it fits the new area. Or you can, of course, create
a whole new Layer, change it to Linear Dodge and remember to uncheck the Transparency Shapes
Layer check box, and then paint with white, or you could, also, paint with a bright yellow
to get that same hot effect.
Obviously, if you start using the brush, you may need to use a Smudge Tool as well to better
fit that highlight onto your image. I'm going to take all these Layers and put them into
a Group. So I'm going to select the top layer, select the bottom layer, press Ctrl G, Command
G on the Mac. I'm going to enable the final image, and another thing that this image has
is this smoke in the background, and I want to show you how to create that. So I'm going
to open up this group. Right above the Color Fill, I'm going to add a Radiant and this
is going to be a Radial Radiant, and we're going to go from Red to Black, so I'm going
to Click and Drag the Black Swatch to the right side and Click and Drag the White Swatch
to the left side. And I'm going to double click on the White Swatch and change the color
to a dark red, maybe something like that, then I'm going to press OK. I can change the
Scale of the Gradient and move it around if I want to, then press OK.
I want to Create a New Layer and I'm going to use Black and White as my foreground and
background color, then go into Filter, Render, Clouds; I'm going to click on the Layer Mask
icon and do the same thing again, Filter, Render, Clouds, or I can just click on Clouds,
or press Ctrl F to repeat the last filter. I want to create a New Group out of that,
so I'm going to click on the New Group icon, Click and Drag that Layer on to that group
and Create a New Layer Mask, and I'm going to hold Alt, Option on the Mac, we're just
going to create Black Layer Mask, which hides everything, then with a Soft Brush, sort of
large, maybe 129 pixels, I can paint those Clouds back and it will look like smoke. I
want to bring down the Opacity and the Flow, though, and then I can just start painting
with white. I want to bring down the Opacity of that Layer to, maybe, about 50% or so.
And that's how I achieved this final effect. I just kept repeating everything that we talked