Photoshop Explode/Speed Text Effect
In this Photoshop Tutorial we will show you give your type a nice feeling of speed.
Step One: Open a new document, make the background black and type your letters in white. Now press Ctrl+E to reduce the layers to the background.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrhLHYPvTuMJ1gE38ZjBjJtroJ1LAbyZhKRMo2x3-x6R3O52OfyCnBAlZX2_Zik-bE7Ed-OQ46PIKIWNU66nLDBsKnbj4UMaSdf_beb0dYbY5TAF-ejISevIAlOQflCUxUm4KAUYb2lWA/s400/1.jpg)
Step Two: Now go filters> Blur> Gaussian Blur and set the radius 2.0.
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Step Three: Next go to Filters> Stylize> Solarize. Your text looks like this!
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggbtzbgqC9Jwt1Fg_wb-eS7X2oZo0TfnpZsNSPCt6Jf0IV27NBZAhg1XPJ73mr46Wu6YuC87u9VILMQtGkU_Wu1-YZXsAnjtpsPefyum7bbIMUANegD-JhbvbesZbtB40wR5o-xJcu0TQ/s400/3.jpg)
Step Four: Then use Image> Adjustments> Channel Mixer and use these settings:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWu8qdxR11dZdJnpz8r8FFsUbzGAu82AwGePg_FzjDifey7BJ9ck-rxg3F0z69_3HD3W2_jvOD123TiDzj4FOluP9tukSymoijBU7BF1DfcuNkjjZ0EN7cfpBJYuEX12_R5iDolvWCSh4/s400/4.jpg)
After putting the values in Channel Mixer, your text looks like!
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmXsxJEbiBn1lMRy4GGOjGFm3y3YPKynoSGtG9h2lUfs-zpMj3sY3ogiKwmpQ-wFVrzow9ErisBUqHG3c6HLZR-KD3POfMgFC8-quIENE2OqG522YZHRgERxVkvecbZKrQr7VufILmZjI/s400/5.jpg)
Step Five: Now go Filters> Distort> Polar Coordinates and use these settings:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsxqK008Nag41aGak0hKI_YDhZ-_uXDeJuY4EPME8myKjE_KqXHPKNc_wqbYO1hweDEw3MzWQOQ3KiKPp54J_WmrrKVi3PqhyPdP7u79PBsC1BEyRwfirQA5OJVUEonUopFSsWPl8l03M/s400/6.jpg)
After this:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9pLvzuqoJ-pEZ97wY7VK0jR121-p_bCp5FdeVpR8c-_bLWNVxv4ixeU-M2xEW6Gdb0nEe6wFGV6wU62WrXkWLxz8H13a49Ci7bjoIMNLKNrat4n1Z9fWhq8zGCDT7F_h79Q2vew-Dlfc/s400/7.jpg)
Step Six: Go to Image> Rotate Canvas> 90°CCW. Next apply Filters> Stylize> Wind and use these settings: (you may use wind two times; depending on your image size).
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsxmyJJt4cIhTKU25fHUzUsoz7qOtRYUP0UIBH6NGITO7YJz4lgW0L1OqnaK2p7_4-m0p5gff0mWUv-FPU9WDCJ1rN8LLWs3l2zztINbhYGP7VLCofNR28jeWDeJXs2wf9lNIDJI9SDSs/s400/8.jpg)
After this:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDB46SlZ54zj25cNdRmN__bA_d3bexIDqSh_nS7FyHCtQUG2ou9wWRlnX7oa1HeZgL61_MBQe9gc9fVitjZka1b07imwSVHKDejKccUrBci8uxAhGxAkPgme-0uVox219TnoFG6hEcR-0/s400/9.jpg)
Step Seven: Then go to Image> Rotate Canvas 90°CW. Now go again Filters> Distort> Polar Coordinates and use these settings:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheB3xZyqnrr8u4fTL3LgftxtrlW4GykUHb80xywL0H1bPlC_-bxroMpXiiCkq2LCSIZ4bG9EJJ_7qu2f8h9ljF48Tgy_Ngni4Iefi89hyphenhyphenzcwyRglagWpc6VlNgxaDMofdNcEyErqVjSPY/s400/10.jpg)
Final Result!
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9pfohMFUYEBdvGzSpLwP04cP8bb9wFC5Tpc7JwThx91mzDeoMjn4CkFa1exTbddMt009GYmtnfN7Je9hwZj8mHYAxR73sS8bJHbMeD_-1V5YBcqJktiDIxAXIjD2nnpx_sRAu1jegIRM/s400/11.jpg)
If you want to change the color of your text, Go to Image> Adjustments> Hue/Saturation or press Ctrl+U. The Hue/Saturation box appears and set the color's you want.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsTvP3pxPP7Ma1GB_LiwKzk8sFeVQun4yq5jEP4Xu4ucE-H9v6mZmT590H08x4GBjwPfCec2PYkzJ0jRAFUd1hua71xMjN2lkuVNcDCX35kFmSq8bKAIW6O82nAc90YVpV18_5fz0ijxA/s400/15.jpg)
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3 Comments:
My text doesn't look like that when I Solarize it. And that's about as far as i could get in this tutorial.
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Anonymous, At
September 3, 2009 at 10:04 AM
have you tried doing ctrl-e. i did that the first time i looked at this tut
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Sam, At
October 7, 2009 at 4:22 AM
This waas a lovely blog post
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Tara F, At
January 17, 2022 at 1:38 AM
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