This tutorial will show how to create a fire text effect! All the details of each step should be the default settings unless it says otherwise. For this tutorial you will need Layer Effects(only inner glow) and G'MIC.
1. Add Text

2. Script-Fu > Layer Effects > Inner Glow (Orange, Opacity:100, Size 20)

3. Back to text layer repeat step 2 with Yellow and Size 10

4. Move Yellow Inner Glow layer to the top

5. Merge Innerglow layers with text layer, Change bottom layer to black

6. Filters > Light & Shadows > Drop Shadow (Red, Blur Radius: 20)

7. Duplicate Drop Shadow Layer 2 times and turn off visibilty on all other layers, merge visible layers

8. Go to FIRE layer and IWarp the edges of the text with radius 15 and amount .15 Swirl CCW

9. New Layer...Filters > Render > Lava

10. Duplicate Layer and set layer mode to Screen, Merge Down

11. Duplicate Lava Layer

12. New Layer fill with yellow set layer mode to Hue, merge down

13. Filters > Distorts > Value Propogate (more white)

14. Turn Visibility off on bottom 3 layers

15. Go to GMIC > Layer > Negation (Change Input Layers to All Visible)

16. GMIC > Deformations > Water (Smoothness 2.5)

17. Add Layer Mask and erase where the text is using the airbrush tool so it still shows some flames

18. Colors> Brightness Contrast (Brightness:10 Contrast:20)

19. Filters> Map> Displace (X:10 Y:10)

20. GMIC> Colors> RGB mixer (Red Contrast 1.3, Red Brightness 54)

21. Flatten Image

Looks cool JFish.

Thanks for posting it. Trying it now. Will post my results when finished.



Edit: Just finished trying it. Here is my result:



Thanks again for the tutorial JFish.

Funny to see that the Water filter is used to render Fire at the end

it's all fractal noise

I love the effect, Jacob! Good job, and thanks for taking the time to share it.



The only thing I did differently was use Bernhard's Color Balance technique (the tute was an older one, the new menu is Color/Color Balance - not under Layers):

I really like the effect, especially that the highlighted areas looked very inhanced

Nice technique JFish!
Thank you so much for sharing it.
28 Days Later font would work excellent with this.

On the other hand it's been awhile since i burned a guitar sooo....