Exploding Text

This tutorial will teach you how to make text explode with light.

Create a new document in your copy of Photoshop.

Settings :



Now type some text with your pen tool

Use 48 pt, color black, the font is your choice.

The longer the text line, the more blur you will have to do. To keep it simple type in the word TutorialMan with caps and lower case.



Now we are going to rasterize our text layer. Right click on your text layer and select Rasterize. Your text layers will now switch from vector to pixel.

We're going to add a new layer now. Right click on the text layer you just rasterized and select Duplicate Layer

Select the new layer on your layer panel as your current editing layer.

Set your foreground color to white and click Edit > Fill.

Setting :



Now we are going to Blur your pixels: Select the menu Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur.


Setting: 5.2

Changing your coordinate scale actually interprets that your pixel points have been in a
polar graph and regraphs them in a rectangular graph which is the normal graph most are familiar with. (if you took advvanced math in hs you may remember the polar graph) What we are doing is changing the way the pixels are oriented, applying an effect to them in that new state, then will change the graphing method back.

Select Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates.

Setting : Polar to Rectangular

Rotate your canvas to get your wind to orient correctly. Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 CW

Apply a wind to your active layer. Filter > Stylize > Wind.

Settings :



A little break in between. Your project should look something like this.



Apply wind a second time. Filter > Stylize > Wind

Adust the levelsby clicking Image > Adjust > Auto Levels

Click Image >Adjust >Invert

Apply wind a third time. Filter > Stylize > Wind

Apply wind a fourth and last time. Filter > Stylize > Wind

Rotate your canvas back to normal by clicking Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 CCW

Change your coordinates back by clicking Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates.

Setting : Rectangular to Polar

On the layer panel Set Layer Mode to Hard Light.

Now it is time to colorize your image. Click Image > Adjust > Hue/Saturation.

Be sure to :

Check the "Colorize" checkbox and play with the settings of
Set saturations up to the top
Select the Hue of choice
set your saturation down to the level you want .
And you should get something like this

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1. Type some text. I used: TG using the font "Lucida console" the font color doesnt matter so just pick one.



2. Now go to Blending Options (Right-click on text layer).
Select (and modify) the following:

Dropshadow, color to #4B6B95
Innershadow, color to #304B98
Outerglow, color to #44CAFE
Innerglow, color to #314E9A
Bevel and emboss
Contour, now just double click on the little box and you'll see something like this:



3. Create 2 more points to have a total of 4 points and give them the following input-output values:
point 1: input: 0% output: 0%
point 2: input: 27% output: 4%
point 3: input: 59% output: 56%
point 4: input: 100% output: 99%


You'll see something like this:



4. Select satin, change the color to #60ACFF and change the contour to "ring".
And finally select color overlay and change the color to #B7E1F7.

Exploding Text

This tutorial will teach you how to make text explode with light.

Create a new document in your copy of Photoshop.

Settings :



Now type some text with your pen tool

Use 48 pt, color black, the font is your choice.

The longer the text line, the more blur you will have to do. To keep it simple type in the word TutorialMan with caps and lower case.



Now we are going to rasterize our text layer. Right click on your text layer and select Rasterize. Your text layers will now switch from vector to pixel.

We're going to add a new layer now. Right click on the text layer you just rasterized and select Duplicate Layer

Select the new layer on your layer panel as your current editing layer.

Set your foreground color to white and click Edit > Fill.

Setting :



Now we are going to Blur your pixels: Select the menu Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur.


Setting: 5.2

Changing your coordinate scale actually interprets that your pixel points have been in a
polar graph and regraphs them in a rectangular graph which is the normal graph most are familiar with. (if you took advvanced math in hs you may remember the polar graph) What we are doing is changing the way the pixels are oriented, applying an effect to them in that new state, then will change the graphing method back.

Select Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates.

Setting : Polar to Rectangular

Rotate your canvas to get your wind to orient correctly. Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 CW

Apply a wind to your active layer. Filter > Stylize > Wind.

Settings :



A little break in between. Your project should look something like this.



Apply wind a second time. Filter > Stylize > Wind

Adust the levelsby clicking Image > Adjust > Auto Levels

Click Image >Adjust >Invert

Apply wind a third time. Filter > Stylize > Wind

Apply wind a fourth and last time. Filter > Stylize > Wind

Rotate your canvas back to normal by clicking Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 CCW

Change your coordinates back by clicking Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates.

Setting : Rectangular to Polar

On the layer panel Set Layer Mode to Hard Light.

Now it is time to colorize your image. Click Image > Adjust > Hue/Saturation.

Be sure to :

Check the "Colorize" checkbox and play with the settings of
Set saturations up to the top
Select the Hue of choice
set your saturation down to the level you want .
And you should get something like this

Clean Text

1. First, create an image about 300 x 100 pixels, and 72 pixels/inch. Select a foreground colour of #CACACA, and fill the image, to make the background this colour.

When you've filled the background, then select your text tool, and add the text you want to add, make the colour of the text close to #3F3F3F A darker grey. Once done, you should have something similar to the image below.



2. OK, now we can add the shadow. It is as easy as adding a layer effect, and can come in very usefull for other things too. Go to Blending Options (Right-click on text layer).
Use the options below, to get the effect. You can always play around a little with these, if it does not suit. (The colour used for the shadow is #8A8A8A)



So once you have that, just click OK, and you should get your final result. It's as easy as that!

Blood Effect

1. Create new file with 72 PPI and white background. The mode has to be Grayscale. Type the text with thick font.



2. Select > Load Selection

(Choose Layer Transparency)

3. Layer > Flatten Image

4. Select > Inverse



5. Filter > Pixelate > Crystallize (cell size 4)

6. Select > Inverse



7. Noise > Add Noise

(Guassian, Monochromatic, Amount. 70)


8. Blur > Guassian blur (Radius 2.0)



9. Image > Adjust > Curve
(make the curve as shown in fig.)



10. Press Ctrl + D to deselect

11. Image > Adjust > Invert



12. Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 CW

13. Filter > Stylize > Wind

14. Method : Wind Direction : From the Right



15. Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 CCW

16. Image > Mode > RGB

17. Image > Adjust > Hue Saturation

18. Click Colorize

19. Drag the Saturation slider to 100

20. Drag the Lightness slider to -5

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Activate the background layer by clicking on it in the Layers palette (below right). Then use the Polygonal Lasso Tool and select the foreground leaves that overlap the edges of the branch (below left). Make sure the "Anti-aliased" check box is selected in the Options palette. When the selection has been made, click Cmd/Ctrl C (Copy) followed by Cmd/Ctrl V (Paste). This will paste a new layer with a portion of the foreground leaves directly over the background layer.

17. Drag the new layer to the top in the Layers palette so it appears in the foreground (below right). The finished image appears below left.

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Now click Select > Deselect (Cmd/Ctrl D) and make the new background visible in the Layers palette (below right). The fringe is not nearly as bad as it was but it is still slightly visible. We're getting there. Make sure the copy of the toucan layer is still active and click Layer > Matting > Defringe... to reapply the defringe command.

14. Accept the default width of 1 pixel in the subsequent dialog.

15. Now we have a smooth edge and the toucan blends perfectly over the new background. The only thing to handle now is that the branch appears to be floating in midair. There are a couple of ways to handle this. We could use the Rubber Stamp Tool and clone the ends of branch and extend them to the edges of the image. But in this case we'll make some of the leaves in the foreground appear to lay in front of the branch. It will be a slightly better effect because it will add the illusion of depth to the image.

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Click once anywhere in the white background. This will make a new selection including all of the white background plus a little bit around the edge of the toucan.

12. Press Edit > Clear (or press the Delete key or Backspace key) to delete all the background pixels.

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8. The strategy is to make an anti-aliased selection of the toucan. This will give us the partially transparent pixels needed for the fringe. Since the transparency of this image was created over a white background we want to re-create the white background on this layer, then make a new selection using the Magic Wand. Start by setting the foreground color to white in the Toolbox, then select the Paint Bucket Tool (below left). Click the Paint Bucket Tool anywhere in the transparent area to flood-fill the background with white (below right).

9. After flood-filling the background the image should look similar to the one below.

10. Next, select the Magic Wand Tool . Then in the Options palette set the tolerance to 32 and check the "Anti-aliased" check box. This will give the selection an anti-aliased edge and will ensure that some of the pixels around the edge of the toucan image will be included in the selection. Anti-aliasing will cause the pixels around the edge to be partially transparent.

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5. Accept the default width of 1 pixel in the subsequent dialog.

6. There is some improvement, but the fringe pixels were completely opaque (having no transparency) so the defringe command produced a jagged edge. Ideally we need to make the fringe pixels partly transparent, then reapply the defringe command. Click Edit > Undo to reverse the command and revert the layer to its previous state.

7. We are going to duplicate the layer containing the image of the toucan because we want to work on a copy of the layer in case we make a mistake. The quickest way to do this is to use the Layers palette and drag the layer onto the "New Layer" icon at the bottom of the palette (below left). Then hide all other layers either by clicking their visibility icons to the left of each layer or by Opt/Alt clicking the visibility icon of the new layer (below right). Make sure that the new layer copy is the active layer (highlighted layer in the Layers palette - below right).