Set your font into fire.

- Click here to see the video version of this tutorial.

- First open a new 500 x 500 PSD document.

- Go to Layer -> New -> Layer, and click ok.

- Change your foreground color to black. (#000000)

- Now fill the newly created layer with the black color, using the paint-bucket-tool ().

- Change your foreground color to white (#FFFFFF), and now type some text.

- Go to Filter -> Distort -> Twirl, apply the following changes and press ok:

- Go to Filter -> Distort -> Ripple, apply the following changes and press ok:

- Go to Filter -> Pixelate -> Fragment, apply the following changes and press ok:

- So far your work should look similar to this:

- Go to Filter -> Distort -> Displace, apply the following changes and click ok:

- After you click ok, a dialog box will appear, then browse to your Adobe Photoshop Displacement Maps folder (e.g. J:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\Plug-Ins\Displacement Maps), and from there choose Crumbles.

- Go to Edit -> Transform -> 90 Degree CW Rotate.

- Go to Filter -> Stylize -> Wind, apply the following changes and click ok:

- Go to Edit -> Transform -> 90 Degree CCW Rotate.

- Go to Layers -> New Adjustment Layer -> Hue/Saturation, click ok. And then a dialog box will appear, apply the following changes and click ok:

- Go to Filter -> Distort -> Ripple, apply the following changes and click ok:

- Go to Filter -> Blur -> Blur.

- Final result should look something like this: