To teach you to draw the 3D fire-lit font

Effect Chart:

1th Step

To create a new black background 1400px * 782PX document, we will start by using the downloaded gravel texture to prepare the ground.

Open the texture in Photoshop and draw the selection:

Copy and paste the selection to our file and use the free transform to change the angle of the selection:

Use the soft eraser tool to lighten the edges of the texture:

Add the following two adjustment layers and create a clipping mask on the ground texture:

Threshold value

Curve

And here's the effect so far:

2nd Step

We'll add some gravel to support our text. We can go back to the gravel texture and select the entire image:

Copy and paste the entire selection into our document. Resize to fit the document and reduce its opacity to around 70%

To dodge the edges with a soft rubber tool:

Apply the following two adjustment layers and set them to the new gravel layer's clipping mask:

Threshold value

Curve

Here is the effect so far:

3rd Step

Select text

Move the selection to our gravel ground image and copy the selection:

Paste the selection onto the text, use the soft eraser to remove some parts of the texture, and don't let it overwrite all the text:

Load the flame texture image and redo the steps above to copy the flame's selection:

Paste the selection onto the text and change the layer blending mode to strong light:

We can copy the 3D layer and move it to the top of all the texture layers:

Change the blending mode of this layer to "overlay":

This is the effect so far:

4th step

We will add the surrounding flames to our documentation and use the Lasso tool (feather set to 40px) to select part of the flame Image:

Copy and paste the selection into our document, using the following USM sharpening to sharpen the flames slightly:

Set the flame's layer blending mode to color filter:

Attach the flame to our text and add more flame elements around the canvas, as shown in the picture:

5th step

We're almost done! To fine-tune the effect, I added a color balance adjustment layer on all layers:

Shadow:

Middle tune:

Highlights

Copy some additional flame elements from the flame material and paste them in the position shown below:

And that's my final effect:

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• PS Text Tutorial