This is a variation of the common fire tutorial. Start out by creating a new document with black background. The image mode should be RGB. Write your text in white. Your have to have some space for the text to rotate it.
Go to Edit>>Transform>>Rotate 90° CW and then Filter>>Stylize>>Wind. Here comes a pop up and asks you if you want to rasterize the text. Yes you do so press ok. Choose Wind and from the left. Now do this once more. Then rotate the text back to normal using Edit>>Transform>>Rotate 90° CCW.
Filter>>Stylize>>Diffuse
Filter>>Blur>>Gaussion Blur, about 1 pixel
Filter>>Distort>>Ripple, 100 %
Image>>Mode>>Indexed color, Palette=exact
Image>>Mode>>Color table, Black Body
If you have some trouble with this part. Try first to go to Image>>Mode>>Greyscale and then Image>>Mode>>RGB before you do the things above. I have experienced that it don't looks good when you use Photoshop 7 and do it in the same way as Photoshop 6.
The last thing you do is to inverse the pic. Image>>adjustment>>Invert. If you want the usual fire just skip the last part (inverse) and use greyscale (Image>>Mode>>Greyscale) from the beginning.
Here you have the word fire written in Swedish. Use your imagination to come up with more ways of using this tutorial.
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