Light Burst Tutorial

Step 1: Set your foreground color to black. Type your text. Rastrize your type layer. Put a selection around your type layer. Put a selection around our text. Go under the select menu and choose save selection

Step 2:Deselect your type. switch your foreground color to white . Under the edit menu choose fill. Change the mode to multiply. Go under fitter menu, under Blur ,choose Gaussian Blur. Enter 2.5 pixels

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 90º cw. Invert your image (Apple + I). Filter menu, choose stylize, choose wind.

Step 6: In wind dialog box choose wind for direction. Run this 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 90º ccw. 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 the Blend Mode to color. Optional invert your lawyer

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