Create a new image

Select the "brush" toll and choose "sparks" as selected brush

Brush in the center of your image

Now go to filter / render / nature / flame

In the Option menù choose as gradient "sunny harvest"


Changing the form/shapes apply again the flame filter

create a new layer and fill it with the sparks brush ( call it "sparks" )


Hide the sparks layer

Select the background, Go to: Filter / map / displace and use the settings showned in the image.


Now make visible again the "sparks" layer and go to: Colors / Colorize ( choose a color that you like )

Set this layer as "burn"

Create a new layer over the "sparks" layer and call it "flames", use again ( one or two times ) the filter flame ( filter / render / nature / flame ).

Give a color to this layer ( colors / Colorize ) [ 234,77,-22 ]

Go to Modify / Copy the visible [ Shift+Ctrl+C ] and than create a new layer with him

Copy this new layer 2 times

Select the middle copy and go to: Filter / Distort / Polar Coords
set this layer as: "overlay"


Select the top layer and go to: filter / blur / motion blur ( zoom - see the image )


Set this layer as "difference" ( tonalità / hue )


As final touch...

Go to Modify / Copy the visible [ Shift+Ctrl+C ] and than create a new layer with him

Set as "grain merge // fusion grain"


Altri esempi partendo da uno sfondo bianco // other example starting from a white background:


Starting from a black background


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