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Fire Tutorial for Paint Shop Pro (PSP) 7

There are tons of graphics resources for fire available online nowadays, but they aren't always appropriate for every project. And besides, it's more fun to do it yourself.

1. Make a new 80x80 image, 16 million colors with a black background. Set the foreground and background colors to R=255, G=162, B=1).
2. Create a new Raster layer and draw a rectangle on the new layer:
   
   • Antialias = Checked
   • Line width = 1.
   
   
3. Apply a wrinkled plastic texture effect (Effects -> Texture Effects -> Texture...):
   
   • Texture = #12
   • Size = 25%
   • Smoothness = 50
   • Depth = 50
   • Ambience = -50
   • Shininess = 75
   • Color = 255, 235, 203
   • Angle = 0
   • Intensity = 50
   • Elevation = 30.
   
   
4. Apply a curlique effect (Effects -> Geometric Effects - > CurlyQs...):
   
   • Number of columns = 5
   • Number of rows = 10
   • Size = 100%
   • Strength = 10
   • Clockwise.
   
   
5. Apply a curlique effect (Effects -> Geometric Effects - > CurlyQs...):
   
   • Number of columns = 9
   • Number of rows = 15
   • Size = 100%
   • Strength = 10
   • Counterclockwise.
   
   
6. Apply a crumpled paper texture effect (Effects -> Texture Effects -> Texture...):
   
   • Texture = #11
   • Size = 25%
   • Smoothness = 25
   • Depth = 25
   • Ambience = -50
   • Shininess = 50
   • Color = 255, 235, 203
   • Angle = 0
   • Intensity = 50
   • Elevation = 30.
   
   
7. Rotate the all layers of the image 90° to the right.
   
8. You might want to add vertical perspective (Effects -> Geometric Effects -> Perspective - Vertical...) to give it a more triangular shape. This is with -60 perspective.
   

Play with the settings and have fun.