This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to create an image of highly,
electrically charged text. I provided a Photoshop PSD file that contains two images of sparks that
we'll use in this project. The link to the file is in my video's description or project files.
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For now, hide both layers. We'll create a new layer below them by Ctrl-clicking or Cmd-clicking the
New Layer icon. We'll fill the empty layer with black, but before we do, check your foreground
and background colors. If they aren't black and white, respectively, press "D" on your keyboard.
Since black is our foreground color, press Alt or Option + Delete. Double-click the black layer
to open its Layer Style window. Click "Gradient Overlay" and the gradient bar.
Click the lower, left Stop and the color box. In the hexadecimal field, type in: 290E00.
Click the lower, right Stop, the box and type in 150B06.
Then, click OK on both windows or press Enter or Return twice. The Blend Mode is Normal,
the Opacity is 100% and the Style is Radial. The Angle is 90 degrees, and the Scale is 100%.
Click the New Layer icon to make a new layer above the background. Go to Filter, Render, and Clouds.
Change its Blend Mode to "Color Dodge". We'll make an inverted layer mask next to the clouds
by Ctrl or Cmd-clicking the Layer Mask icon. This hides or masks out the clouds. We'll be brushing
white over the center of the active layer mask to reveal back the center of the clouds
Open your Brush Tool and invert the colors by pressing "x" on your keyboard or by clicking
this icon. Open your Brush Picker and pick a soft, round brush. For its size, type in 1400 pixels.
The Opacity and Flow are both 100%. Go to the middle of your document and click once.
Make a new layer. Let's press "v" to open our Move Tool so it's easier to navigate our
cursor over the screen. Go to Filter, Render and Fibers. Make the Variance: 15 and the Strength: 10.
We want more black than white, so we'll invert it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + I. Go to Edit,
Transform and "Rotate 90 degrees Clockwise". We'll stretch it out to the sides of our
document by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + T to open our Transform Tool. Go to the middle anchor
point on one of the sides and press and hold Alt or Option as we drag it out. Then, press
Enter or Return. We'll convert it into a Smart Object, so we can modify it non-destructively.
To do this, click the icon at the upper, right corner and click "Convert to Smart Object".
Go to Filter, Blur, and Gaussian Blur. Blur it 1 pixel. Open your Transform Tool
and if you see this message, it's just letting us know that the Blur filter
will be temporarily turned off until we're done with the Transform Tool.
Click the Warp Transform icon and click the Custom tab. Click "Bulge" and type in minus 50.
Then, press Enter or Return or click the checkmark.
Change the Blend Mode to Color Dodge . Make a copy of it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd J.
Hide the copy and make the original active. Open your Transform Tool and if you see this
message again, click OK. Click the Warp Transform icon and bend it 60%.
Reduce its opacity anywhere from 15 to 20%. Make the top layer visible. To save
some space in the Layers panel, let's collapse the smart filters.
Make the top layer active and make a new layer above it. Open your Horizontal Type Tool
and Type Picker. Pick a medium to heavy font. I'm picking BankGothic Bold.
I'll make its size 166 points, but feel free to make it any size you want based on the font you
choose and the number of characters in your text. The Aliasing is irrelevant for this effect. I'll
choose center alignment. Click on the document and type out your text. To adjust the spacing
in your line of text, also known as "tracking", highlight the line and press and hold Alt or
Option as you press the right or left arrow key on your keyboard. To center it, open your
Move Tool and press Ctrl or Cmd + A to select your document. Click the Align Horizontal Centers icon
and the Align Vertical Centers icon. Deselect it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + D.
Make it into a Smart Object and double-click it to open its Layer Style window. Click "Outer Glow"
and the color box. Type in: FFFDE2. The Blend Mode is Color Dodge and the Opacity is 80%.
The Technique is Softer, the Spread is 0% and the Size is 250 pixels. The Contour is Linear and the Range is 50%.
In case you're wondering what Range does, it allows us to control the falloff of our Outer
Glow. A lower setting gives us a harder glow, while a higher setting gives us a softer one.
Go to Filter, Blur and Gaussian Blur. Blur it 5 pixels.
Let's collapse the Smart Filters to save some space. Go to Filter and Liquify.
With the Forward Warp Tool active, adjust the size of your brush to approximately this size.
I made the Size and the density both 45 and the Pressure: approximately 50. Drag your brush
a little over the first few characters pulling it to the left like taffy. Make sure you re not
distorting it too much. Pull the middle characters a bit to the left and right
and pull the last ones more to the right than left.
Make the bottom sparks layer visible and active and change its Blend Mode to "Screen". Make the
top sparks layer visible and active and change its Blend Mode also to "Screen".
Ctrl or Cmd-click the thumbnail of your text to select its shape. We'll make an inverted Layer Mask of the selection
by Alt or Option-clicking the Layer Mask icon. We'll copy the layer mask to the bottom sparks
layer by pressing and holding Alt or Option as you drag a copy of it straight down.
Make the top layer mask active and reduce its Density to 10%. Lastly, we'll intensify the red colors.
Open the Adjustments tab. If you don't see it, go to Window and Adjustments. Click the
Hue/Saturation icon and open the list of color ranges. Click "Reds" and increase it to 80%.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!