Making a candle flame

Make a new document, 1000×1000, black background

Grab the gradient tool and make a gradient like mine shown below.

Choose from it’s options the Diamond gradient and on a new layer make the gradient like in the example:

Now press CTRL+T (command+T on Mac) to enter free transform mode, right click and choose perspective. Drag the right bottom corner to the place where it is the other orner … practically switch their places. Here is what should look like.

Make a selection and delete the unwanted portion of the image, leaving only the candle flame.

Hit CTRL+U (Command+U on Macintosh) to bring up the Hue/Saturation options and colorize the image. Here are my values:

Let’s add some wind effect: go to Filter>Distort>Wave. Click Randomize until you get your desired shape and click OK. Now you have a candle flame.

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