Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to create a powerful,
sci-fi graphic of back-lit text floating in deep space. Create a new document by pressing
Ctrl + N on Windows or Cmd + N on a Mac. Name it whatever you'd like. Make its Width: 1550
pixels, its Height: 870 pixels and the resolution: 150 pixels per inch. The Color Mode is RGB
and 8 bits per channel. Then, click OK or press Enter or Return.
If your foreground and background colors aren't white and black, respectively,
press "D" on your keyboard and then "x" to invert them.
We'll fill the document with black and since black is the background
color, press Ctrl or Cmd + Delete. Open your Horizontal Type Tool and open your list of
fonts. Choose a font you like. I'm using "Aldo the Apache Regular". If you'd like to use
it, I provided its link in my video's description or project files. I'll make its size: 183
points, Sharp and Center Alignment. Click on your document and type out your text. To
increase or decrease the space between characters, highlight them and press and hold Alt or Option
+ the right or left arrows on your keyboard. To center your text on your document, open
your Move Tool and press Ctrl or Cmd + A to select to select it all and click the "Align
Horizontal Centers" icon. To deselect it, press Ctrl or Cmd + D. To slide your text
down or up, press the down or up arrows on your keyboard.
Ctrl-click or Cmd-click on the large "T" to make a selection of your text's shape.
Ctrl-click or Cmd-click on the New Layer icon to make a new layer below the active layer.
Go to Select, Modify and Border.
Make the Width: 25 pixels and click OK. We'll fill it with white and since white is the
foreground color, press Alt or Option + Delete. Then, deselect it. Double-click the large
"T" to highlight the text and click the color box to open the Color Picker. Pick black and
click OK. Open your Move Tool and go to Layer, Rasterize and Type.. We're rasterizing the
text, so we can apply certain effects and filters to it. Make Layer 1 active and change
its Blend Mode to "Dissolve". We want to keep this Dissolve" effect, but make the layer's
Blend mode "Normal" To do this, click the New Layer icon to make a new layer. Shift-click
on Layer 1 to make it active, as well. Then, merge the 2 layers by pressing Ctrl or Cmd
+ E. Now, we still have the Dissolve effect, but its blend mode is Normal. Name it "Radial Blur".
Go to Filter, Blur and Radial Blur. Make the Amount: 100%, the Blur Method: "Zoom"
and the Quality: "Good". Drag the cross hair to a location that approximates the location
of the top, center of your text. Then, click OK. Your first few tries may not be accurate,
so just press Ctrl or Cmd + Z to undo the last step and try again until you're happy
with the blur's location. Increase the blur effect by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + F a few times.
Notice the subtle striations in the blur. This is because the Layer that we applied
the radial blur to was originally stippled by the Dissolve blend mode. To slightly lower
or raise the location of the blur, press your Down or Up arrow on your keyboard. Next, we'll
brighten and colorize our image. Make your top layer active and click the Adjustment
Layer icon. Click "Hue/Saturation". Check "Colorize" and drag the Hue slider to a color
you like. I'll increase the Saturation to 100%. We'll make a copy of the text. First,
make the layer active and then, press Ctrl or Cmd + J. Drag the copy below the original
text and name it "Shadow". Go to Edit, Transform and "Flip Vertical". Press and hold "Shift"
as you drag the shadow down until its flush with the bottom of the top text. Go to Edit,
Transform and "Perspective". Go to a bottom corner and drag it out until the shadow's
perspective angle matches the perspective angle of the radial blur. Then, press Enter
or Return. Press the Down arrow on your keyboard to lower the shadow until its top edges are
aligned to the bottom of the top text. Next,we'll make the shadow gradually blur and fade out.
Make a copy of the shadow and click the layer mask icon to make a layer mask next to the
copy. Press and hold Alt or Option as you drag a copy of the layer mask next to the
original shadow. Make the Shadow copy layer active and go to Filter, Blur and Gaussian Blur.
Make the Radius: 1 pixel and click OK. Make the original shadow active. Go back to
Filter, Blur and Gaussian Blur. This time, blur it 8 pixels. Then, click OK or press Enter or Return.
Click the layer mask to make it active. Open your Gradient Tool and Gradient
Picker. Click the "Black to Transparent" gradient and the Linear gradient icon. Go to the bottom
of your shadow and press and hold "Shift" as you drag up the gradient line to approximately
here. Then, release. To sharpen the top part of the shadow, make the top layer mask active.
Place your cursor approximately three quarters of the the way up the shadow and press and
hold Shift as you drag up the gradient line to the top of the shadow. Next, we'll add
a glow around the rim of the text. Make your text layer active and click the "fx" icon.
Click "Outer Glow". If your version of Photoshop is earlier than CC 2015, your Layer Style
window will look a bit different. Make the Blend Mode: Color Dodge, the Opacity 35% and
the Size: 10 pixels. Then, click OK. Next, we'll add a small, bright flare at the source
of the radial blur. Click the New Layer icon to make a new layer. Name it "Source Light".
Open your Elliptical Marquee Tool and go to the center of the source of the radial blur.
Press and hold Alt or Option + Shift as you drag out a circle approximately this size.
Go to Select, Modify and Feather. Feather it 50 pixels and click Ok or press Enter or Return.
Open your Gradient Tool and click the Radial gradient icon. Go to the center
of the circle and press and hold Shift as you drag the gradient line across approximately
twice the distance of the diameter of the circle. Then, release. To deselect it, press
Ctrl or Cmd +D. To slide the flare up or down, press the Up or Down arrows on your keyboard.
Next, we'll add a lens flare. Make a composite snapshot of your image by first making the
top layer active and then, pressing Ctrl + Shift + alt + E on Windows or Cmd + Shift
+ Option + E on a Mac. Go to Filter, Render and Lens Flare. The Brightness is 100% and
the Lens Type is 50-300mm Zoom. Drag the lens flare over the center of the glow and click
OK. Because the preview window is so small, you may have to reposition it a few times
to get it over the center. Lastly, we'll add stars to the background. Since the text is
blocking the radial blur from shining through it, we'll block the stars from shining through it, as well.
Click the New Layer icon to make a new layer. Fill the empty with black and
since black is the background color, press Ctrl or Cmd + Delete. Go to Filter, Noise
and "Add Noise". Make the Amount: 100%, Gaussian and Monochromatic. Then click OK or press
Enter or Return. Go to Filter, Blur and Gaussian Blur. Make the Radius: point 3 pixels and
click OK or press Enter or Return. Press Ctrl or Cmd + L to open your Levels window. Drag
the Input black slider to approximately 170 and click OK. Change the Blend Mode to "Color Dodge".
Ctrl-click or Cmd-click on the text to make a selection of it. Click the Layer
Mask icon to make a layer mask of the selection next to the stars layer. Right now, the stars
are showing through the text, but not the background, so to reverse the effect, we'll
invert the layer mask. To do this, press Ctrl or Cmd + I.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!