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Thursday, April 30, 2009

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.







3 comments:

Anonymous said...

My text doesn't look like that when I Solarize it. And that's about as far as i could get in this tutorial.

Sam said...

have you tried doing ctrl-e. i did that the first time i looked at this tut

Tara F said...

This waas a lovely blog post

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