Not a problem, I don't exactly have some sort of big secret (and my PM seems to be busted) ^_^ I work entirely in Photoshop with the basic hard/soft brushes. If I recall, for the fire I started with red, on a large soft brush at low transparency, then added layers of orange, gold, and pale yellow at smaller brush sizes (still really low transparency). Once that was all where I wanted it I went back and smudge-tooled the edges a bit in places just to tweak some of the swirls and added some flecks of dark/black throughout. And that is my hopefully un-confusing and long-winded explaination.