Open my own fire image
Open the image by ikopanas Copy
Paste
Erase background
Blend mode hard light
Recopy and paste head
Painted some orange on hair
Blend mode soft light low opacity
Erased some of this layer at varying opacity (all this was because the man's hair had disappeared into bg)
Recopied and pasted some of the horse's mane
Brightness/contrast
Blend mode multiply
Manufactured some mane with grass brush
on a new transparent layer, copied and transformed
FilterForge frame