I was looking at several fire tutorials and only saw one that looked really good so I took a stab at it and was surprised how easy it was. Now I can't remember where it was. Anyway, here's my result.

Wow, that is realistic, maybe you had better find it,

Thanks Molly, I'm still digging around, it's starting to bug me now.

Maybe the dog took it and buried it where you won't find it.

looks great !

my only point of criticism would be the yellow splatters above the flames
they look like paint, not sparks

dont you have a history in your browser, Drac ?
you could look it up there

Molly - Nah, the dog only eats tennis balls and an occasional squirrel.

Esper - I have by preferences set to delete browsing history on exit so I don't fill up my cache too quickly. I did find that sucker though. It was a PS tut that I adapted. the sparkes were made with a debris brush and Perhaps I should have scaled it down a bit and used the eraser tool and a soft brush to remove the excess.

http://10steps.sg/tutorials/photoshop/t ... re-effect/

I like everything this guy does.

this looks great on its own too

Yes I thouht that too. It is so nice and shiny.

draconian: nice work!! looks so good with the fire against the dark leather background. that tutorial looks great too - not sure i could follow a ps tutorial since i haven't used ps for so long, but that's probably no loss - it's not like i lack tutorials to try .

I have to admit, I couldn't follow it: Didn't get very close at all ...

oh dear, here we go again, lol

i just want the glow effect and i cannot replicate it exactly with layerfx
had to improvise

what is the equivalent of Color Dodge ?

I didn't follow the tutorial except for general reference. It was done entirely in Gimp. I barely know how to open things in PS and maybe convert or do a save as to something I can use in Gimp.

Mike - Looks pretty good. Try using an eraser and a large fuzzy brush to remove some of the unwanted flames to make it look like the text is actually on fire itself instead of just in the fire.

Esper, I think Color Dodge is just Dodge in Gimp.

yes Odinbc, that worked best