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.



Step Two: Now go filters> Blur> Gaussian Blur and set the radius 2.0.



Step Three: Next go to Filters> Stylize> Solarize. Your text looks like this!



Step Four: Then use Image> Adjustments> Channel Mixer and use these settings:

After putting the values in Channel Mixer, your text looks like!

Step Five: Now go Filters> Distort> Polar Coordinates and use these settings:



After this:



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).



After this:



Step Seven: Then go to Image> Rotate Canvas 90°CW. Now go again Filters> Distort> Polar Coordinates and use these settings:



Final Result!



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.