Light Burst Tutorial

Step 1: 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.

Step 2: Deselecct your type. switch your foreground to white. Under the Edit menu choose fill. Change the mode to multiply.Go under the filter menu, under blur,, and choose gaussian blur.

Step 3: Go under the filter menu, under stylize and choose Solarize. Press shift + Apple + L to run the auto levels. Duplicate layer.

Step 4: Filter menu, under distort, choose polar coordinates. Choose polar to rectangular.

Step 5: Go under the image menu, under rotate canvas, choose 90degreess cw. Invert image ( apple + I ). Filter menu, under stylize, choose wind.

Step 6: In wind dialog box choose wind for methode and for the direction choose from the right. Run filter 2 more times by pressing (Apple + F) twice.

Step 7 : Invert your image. Run auto levels. Run the wind filter 3 more times. Rotate canvas 90 counterclockwise. Filter menu, distort, choose polar coordinates.

Step 8 : In polar coordinates, choose rectangular to polar. Change the layer blend mode from normal to screen.


Step 9 : Create a new layer. Choose a gradient. Drag your gradient through this layer. Change to blend mode to color.


Step 10 : Click your text layer copy. Filter menu, under blur, choose radial blur. In the dialog box choose zoom. Increase the amount to 66. Click your original text layer. Select menu, load selection. Choose alpha 1. Change foreground color to black . Deselect your text.