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Create a Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect on Text This post is part of a series calledMastering Text Effects. How to Create a Richly Ornate Typographic Illustration Create a Steam Powered Typographic Treatment - Part I Take typography one step further by having text falling from the sky in a burning inferno. Yes, this is the text-on-fire tutorial to end all tutorials. It uses a little Illustrator for the text and a lot of Photoshop to burn up the screen! In previous tutorials youve seentwo smokeeffectsthat Ive created, but lets face it, you cant have smoke without a fire somewhere. So in this tutorial, I will show you how to create a fire effect similar to when a spaceship or comet enters the earths atmosphere. The image well be creating is inspired by a Nike Ad I saw some time ago. Im not sure what the URL is. If anyone knows it, please link us up in the comments. Its always a good idea to keep your eyes open for inspiration for effects and designs no matter what you are doing. Graphics are everywhere and you can learn a lot by looking at what other people do. Now on to the tutorial! Step 1 First create a new document and fill it with a dark grey. Step 2 Create a new layer, call it Clouds, and using the Lasso Tool (L), make a selection similar to the one Ive shown below. Set your background color to a 50% grey and the foreground to a dark grey. Go to Filter Render Clouds and, holding the Alt key, create clouds. After that go to Images Adjustments Levels, and change the input levels and output levels until you make the clouds neither too dark nor too light (see the image shown). This layer will be on top of the others. Step 3 Create another layer and repeat Step 2, but this time just change the background color from 50% gray to a blue or green color. This will create a small cloud, lighter than the big one. Step 4 Now well switch to Adobe Illustrator to create some text. I used Times New Roman for the font. After that go to Effect 3D Extrude and Bevel.