Movie type Explosions
Photoshop Tutorial
Here is a cool little effect I just made up. I know this one is going to be popular. A movie type explosion, complete with flying sparks!
INGREDIENTS
by Colin Smith
- Type
- Lasso
- Layers
- Blurring
- Layer Blending Modes
- Difficulty 7/10
1
Put your type on its own layer and render. Right click/Cmd
Click on its name in the layers pallette and render type. PS 5.5
calls this rasterize type.
2
Now its time to rope us some type! Grab the lasso tool and
select a portion of the type.
3
Now select the move tool (V)
Drag the selected peice away from the rest.
4
Repeat steps 2 and 3 lots of times, using differant selection sizes and shapes, until you get something like this.
5
Duplicate
the layer and apply a motion blur>Radial blur = 100 and quality = best
6
Duplicate the blurred layer 2X
7
Set
the top blurred layer to Dissolve and bring the opacity to 47%
8
Change
the color of the blurred layers and the sparks using the Hue/Saturation
control. Add a black background and "BOOM".