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Firey Text

  • Set the foreground color to red.
  • Then using Paint Shop Pro's text tool choose a font .( I used 48 pnt. Tango BT in this tutorial)
  • Place your text on the screen and deselect it.
  • Select IMAGE > OTHER > DILATE 3 times.
  •  Set the foreground color to yellow.
  • Then place the text in the center and deselect it.
  • Select IMAGE > OTHER > DILATE .
  • Set the foreground color to black.
  • Then place the text in the center of the yellow text.
    Don't deselect the black text.
  • Select FILE > OPEN and load fire.gif .
  • Select the FILL tool from the tool palette.
  • Select PATTERN from the control palette. Click on OPTIONS then select fire.gif from the list of images. Fill the black text with the pattern.
  • Deselect the text.
  • Select the RETOUCH tool from the tool palette
  • Select SMUDGE from the control palette. Using the smudge tool with a brush size of 1 drag flames from the patterned area upward.
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