Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Light burst Tutorial



Step1: Set your foreground color to black. Type your text. Rasterize your type layer. Put a selection around your text. Go under the select menu and choose save selection.
Step2: Deselect your type. Switch your foreground color to white. Under the edit menu choose fill. Change the mode to multiply. Go under filter menu Blur, choose Gaussian Blur. Enter 2.5 pixels.
Step3: Go under the filter menu, under stylize and choose solarize. Press shift+apple+L to run the Auto Levels. Duplicate Layer.
Step4: Filter menu under Distort, choose polar coodinates. Choose polar rectangular.
Step5: Go under the image menu, under Rotate Canvas, choose 90º cw. Invert you4 image (appple+I). Filter menu, choose stylize, choose wind.
Step6: In the wind dialogue box choose wind for Method and from the right for direction. Run this filter 2 more times pressing apple+f twice
Step7: Invert your image. Run the wind filter 3 more timse. Rotate canvas 90º ccw. Filter menu, Distort, choose polar cordinates.
Step8: In polar cordinates choose Rectangular to polor. Change the layer Blend Made from normal to screen.
Step9: Create a new layer. Choose a gradient. Drag through this layer. Change the Blend Mode to color. Optional Invert your layer
Step10: Click on your text layer copy. Filter menu, under Blur, choose radial Blur. In dialoge box choose zoom. Increase the amount to 66. Click your original text layer select menu, load selection. Choose alpha 1. Change your foreground color to black. Deselect your text.

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