StarBurst Text Effect
John Woods
Adobe Certified Expert
Photoshop 7.0
Open Photoshop, click the “ D “ key this puts the Foreground and Background
colors at the default settings of White and Black.
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Select File>New on the Photoshop banner bar. Set the File size to 6 inches wide by
4 inches high at a resolution of 200 dpi. Click on Background for the Contents color.
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New file with Black Background Layer.
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Click the “X “ key and Flip the Foreground and Background colors.
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Select the Type tool in the Photoshop toolbar. Click in the image and add some
text with a Bold Face.
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Text Layer added to Layers palette.
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Click on small arrow at the upper right of the Layers Palette. Select Duplicate Layer
from the popout menu.
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Duplicate layer control panel open, change name to something that gives you a
good description of what has been done to the text.
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Drag Layer Down.
New Text Layer “ Wormhole Text Explode “ added to Layers palette. Click on the
new layer and Drag the Layer below the text layer, so it is behind the text layer.
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Select Filter>Blur>Radial Blur on the Photoshop banner bar.
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Since the text layer is still in vector space when we apply this filter, we need to
Rasterize the text layer first. Click OK. Select Layer>Rasterize>Type on the
Photoshop banner bar. Select Filter>Blur>Radial Blur on the Photoshop banner
bar.
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Radial Blur Filter control panel open, set the Amount to 100%, set the
Blur Method to Zoom and the Quality to Draft.
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Results of Radial Blur
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Select Filter>Blur>Radial Blur again.
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Radial Blur Filter control panel open, set the Amount to 71%, set the
Blur Method to Zoom and the Quality to Good.
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Results of second Radial Blur
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Click on Add a Layer Style Button at the bottom of the Layers Palette. Select
Gradient Overlay from the popout menu.
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Figure 15
Click Here
Gradient Overlay control panel open, click on the gradient shown to open the
Gradient Editor control panel.
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Opacity Stops
Color Stops
Change Color of Stop
Gradient Editor control panel open. To change the colors of the Gradient, click
on the color stops on the bottom of the Gradient display. To change Opacity
click on the Opacity stops on top of the Gradient display. To add stops Mouse
Click either above or below Gradient display. To copy a stop click the Option
key (Mac) or Alt key (PC) Mouse click and drag the stop. To change color of
stop click on stop then click on color swatch below the stop.
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Color Picker control panel open, select a dark Blue for Left color stop.
Click OK
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Color Picker control panel open, select a light Blue/Green for Right color stop.
Click OK
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Gradient Editor with New gradient showing.
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Rename the New gradient Gas Flame 3 click on New
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Gradient Editor with New gradient added to Presets.
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Gradient Overlay Layer style control panel open Settings:
Angle: 45 degrees,
Scale: 73%
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Layers palette showing text layer with Gradient Overlay Layer Style applied.
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Click on small arrow at upper right of Layers Palette. select Duplicate Layer
from the popout menu.
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Duplicate layer control panel open.
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Layers palette showing Duplicate layer. Click on the Link Icon in front
of the Wormhole Text Explode layer, link the layers together. Click on
the small arrow at the upper right of the Layers Palette, Select Merge
Linked from the popout menu.
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Results of Radial Blur and Layer Duplication.
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Select Edit>Transform>Scale on the Photoshop banner bar.
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Change the scale size to 105% in the tool options banner bar.
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Change the scale size to 105% in the tool options banner bar.
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Double Click on the “ T “ of the original type layer. this selects the type and its
Layer.
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Text options in the tool options banner bar. Click on the Color swatch and
change the color to Black
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Color Picker open. Click on a Black color in the Color Picker control panel
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Results of changing text color to Black.
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Click on Add a Layer Style Button at bottom of Layers palette, select Outer Glow
from the pop out menu.
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Color Picker open, select a Blue/Green for the Glow color. click OK.
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Results of Black text and, a Blue/Green Outer Glow color.
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Click on the small arrow at the upper right of the Layers Palette, select
Flatten Image from the pop out menu.
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Flattened Image only one Background layer.
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Final Image save as jpeg, tiff etc.
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