Creating real FIRE !

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Its gettin hot in here…! Inkscape Version 0.46

I was searching for a way to create real fire in Inkscape.

Now i got it! The magic word is…turbulence ! This is really a cool feature.
This tutorial is made with the development version build 5. mar 2008.
Let`s go:
First, change the background color of your document 100% black. Draw a rectangle ca. 600x 400 px. Then create the fire-filter.
Open the filter dialog: Object > Filter Effects .
Click the “new” button and get the effects “turbulence”/ “colormatrix” and “blur”.

Settings:

Then you have to draw a fire shape along the (transparent) black lines like this:

Cut the shape with Object > Clip > Set and you have a real looking fire in Inkscape !

Nice.

Now we add an text. Fill and stroke, gray / white alternate gradients:

and with the fire:

Nice too, but we make it perfect! We need smoke!
Use the calligraphic pen and draw some wavelike lines along the letters with white/alternate gradient fill.
Settings for the pen:

I don`t like the sharp contour. So i build another easy blur filter:

The result:

Better!

Now we create smoke around the fire at the same way:

At last dubble the fire and scale it down.

Puhh. That`s it ! After these steps you could have a real looking fire effect! This is my finish picture:

Download the original SVG here.

Hope you like it ! Have fun!

Chris