Fire text with Photoshop and happy S. Valentine!
For this S. Valentine I’ve thought that a heart of fire could be very very nice. We’ll create a fire text, and in particular the text: “LOVE”; but instead of using letter “O” we’ll use a heart!
For letters “L, V and E” we’ll use Arial Black font, and for the heart we’ll use Sexy Rexy Smitten font. You can download this last font clicking here, and at this URL you can find font’s home page:
http://www.dafont.com/sexyrexy-smitten.font
Download the zip, insert the font in your font folder (Control Panel —> Fonts), and look at the characters map to knowing wich symbols correspond to any character. In my tutorial for example I used letter “W” that corresponds to a simple heart.
Start creating a new document with your own preferences, these are my preferences:
Be sure to have black as Background Color and white as Foreground Color. Choosing Background Color we’ll fill the document with black.
Now use Horizontal Type Mask Tool:
And set this Tool in this way:
Write anything you want, in my tutorial I write LWVE (The W will be the heart):
Now go to select “W” and change the font from Arial Black to SexyRexy-Smitten:
If the character’s dimension is too big for the document, you can make it less big:
Perfect, now click on Rectangular Marquee Tool and use it to move the text in the best position (for example in the center):
With Paint Bucket Tool, go to fill selection with white (only one click with this tool inside the selection):
Deselect the text going to Select —> Deselect:
Ok. Now use the Smudge Tool, it’s visualized with this symbol: 
, set the smudge tool as indicated here:
The dimension of the Smudge Tool depends by your document dimension; change its value as you want. Now try to simulate the movement of the fire, it is a movement similar to waves. Make practise.
The movement goes from the bottom to the top of any letter; try to start with the Smudge Tool in the middle of a flame, or also in the top’s flame:
When you finish with the flames, add a Color Balance layer, clicking on the bottom icon in the layers window (Create new fill or adjustments layer):
Set Shadows, Midtones and Highlights as showed:
Shadows
Midtones
Highlights
Rewrite the beggining text using the Horizontal Type Tool:
Change the text color from white to black simply clicking in the Switch Foreground and Background Colors button:
Naturally remember to select the text 
! Use the Move Tool to move the text in the exact position of the first text (that now has the flames):
Remember that you can move a layer only if it’s selected.
Select fire text layer. Go to Filter —> Blur —> Gaussian Blur…, and set the Radius to 4px:
Click Ok and change the Blend Mode of the last text layer (where there is only the text) from Normal to Overlay:
Very good, this is the end:
Click on the image for the real size.
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