Animated Flame
 

1. Create a new document.

2. Load a candle or something with a flame into this document. ( I used this one )

3.The candle should be in a single layer. To create the flame create a new layer.  

4. Draw with a brush a flame with a brown or black color. 

5. Duplicate the layer (Layer-> Duplicate Layer)

6. Now use: Filter-> Blur-> Gaussian Blur
and Filter->Blur-> Motion blur.                               

Use this filters several times until your flame looks like this: (View picture)     

7. Create a new layer, again

8. Filter-> Render-> Clouds. Use this settings :

 

9. Change the ‘Blend mode’ from ‘normal’ to ‘Color Dodge’
Look to it that your layers looks like this:

Thats it! To animate the flame u can use Image Ready or Marcromedia Flash. I used Flash for the candle on top.                                                                      

 
 

 

 

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