circle of fire

hi! i'm trying to create a rounded image... like a cd design... do anyone of you know how to make a realistic fire effect that is going round? circle of fire thingy... i'm confused because i cant seem to do it in a circular form
thanks!!
:p

I don't have PS here at work, so this might not work...

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find a fiery text tutorial - usually involved the wind filter and index color>color table>black body

Instead of using white text, draw a white horizontal line (I imagine this would look good a bit rough and wavy) and apply the tutorial principles to this

[*]when you've got a horizontal line of fire, apply the polar coordinates filter to turn it into a circle.[/list]I'll have a play about when I get home and compose a proper tutorial if it works...

ok, its not bad...probably wants a bit of tweaking...
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open a new image on a square canvas (I used 400x400px) with a black background

using the paintbrush on a fairly small setting, draw a line from the top of the canvas to the bottom, roughly half way across, in white.

filter>stylise>wind (wind, from the left)

ctrl+f to repeat

filter>stylise>wind (wind, from the right)

ctrl+f to repeat

rotate the canvas through 90 degrees so the line is horizontal

filter>distort>ocean ripple (1,1)

image>mode>greyscale (yes to flatten all layers if it asks)

image>mode>indexed color

image>mode>color table (select black body from the dropdown list)

image>mode>RGB color

[*]filter>distort>polar coordinates (rectangular to polar)[/list]There...let me know how you get on.

The last tut was good but i have a better suggestion to make the flames look real. After the wind, go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and blur it at a setting of between 3 and 5.

thanks so much for your help! i really appreciate it! yey!

I made this fire ring and was wondering if I can put it in my styles pallete. I'm not sure how to do it. Does it matter that I made it CMYK? I never use RGB.
Thanks,
Sue

That was a great tutorial behemoth.


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hi

Sorry...u cannot put it in your style platte but you can keep it as a Edit > Define Pattern.

Shay