was messing around in Photoshop, testing painting a beard anyway, it was dark to light orangy brown in color over black background when I tweaked its "Levels", it made it into a not bad fire look!

maybe interesting way for folk to make custom flames etc ;)

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That looks great; thanks for the tip! :)

My pleasure! :)

guess I better write a tutorial on that while I remember it! :p

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That would be nice. :)

I found that rather than painting fire entirely in Photoshop, you can use photos and get a more realistic look.

I used a photo for this candle flame:

and a blaze photo for torches near the pillars:

All you need is to find good images of flames on a black background. Google image is a good source but there are also some at CGTextures.

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