Hi.This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
I'm going to show you how to create powerful, shattered text.
I provided this cracked texture, as well as, two custom brush presets.
One brush set is a series of explosion textures and the other is a set of smoke brushes.
Their links are in my video's description below or project files.
If you're not sure how to install brushes, watch my tutorial showing you how.
I included its link, as well.
Before we begin, if you’re not already a subscriber to Blue Lightning TV,
click the tiny button at the lower right, or the link in my video’s description below.
Once you've installed the brush presets, open the cracked texture file I provided.
Click off the lock icon to unlock it and click the eyeball icon to temporarily hide the layer.
Ctrl-click or Cmd-click the New Layer icon to make a new layer below it.
We'll fill the empty layer with black, but first, if your foreground and background colors
aren't black and white respectively, press "D" on your keyboard.
Since black is your foreground color, press Alt or Option + Delete.
We're ready to add text and since we want it to be white, invert your foreground and
background colors by either pressing "x" on your keyboard or by click this icon.
Open your Horizontal Type Tool and pick a thick, heavy font.
I'm using, "FM College Team Regular".
If you'd like to use it, I provided its link, as well.
I'll make its size 250 points, but feel free to adjust this amount based on the font you
use and the amount of characters in your text.
I'll make the Anti-aliasing: Sharp and the alignment: centered.
Click on the document and type out your text.
To adjust the spacing between all the characters, highlight your entire line and press and hold
Alt or Option as you press the right or left bracket key on your keyboard.
To adjust the space between two character, click between those characters and repeat
the same keystrokes.
To raise or lower the height of a character, highlight it and press the Character / Paragraph
icon or go to Window and Character.
Drag the "Baseline Shift" icon to the left or right to lower or raise the character.
Continue to raise or lower each character to make the word look uneven and turbulent.
We can close the character panel now.
To center the word on your document, open your Move Tool and press Ctrl or Cmd + A to
select your document.
Press the "Align Horizontal Centers" icon and the "Align Vertical Centers" icon.
Then, deselect it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + D.
We'll convert our text into a Smart Object, so we can modify it non-destructively.
To do this, click the icon at the upper, right corner of the Layers panel
and click "Convert to Smart Object".
Click the Layer Mask icon to make a layer mask next to our text.
On this layer mask, we'll use the explosion brushes that you installed at the beginning
from the link I provided.
Open your Brush Tool and Brush Picker.
If you scroll down and don't see the explosion brushes, click the gear icon an click it.
When you see this message, click OK or on earlier versions, click "Append".
Scroll down and open the Explosion brushes.
Click this one.
For its size, type in 250 pixels.
Rotate the angle of the brush to approximately one o'clock and press Enter or Return.
Brush over the top edge of each character to mask out those areas on the layer mask.
To brush over the bottom edges, rotate the brush to approximately seven o'clock
and brush over the bottom edges.
Make the cracked texture visible and active.
To make it appear just inside our text, we need to make it into a clipping mask.
To do this, press Ctrl + Alt + G on Windows or Cmd + Option + G on a Mac.
Or, go to Layer and "Create Clipping Mask".
Click the New Layer icon to make a new layer.
I'll name it, "Explosion brushes".
Make sure your colors are white and black, respectively.
Click another explosion brush.
I'll click this one.
To adjust its size, first, make sure your CapsLock key is off and press the right or
left bracket key on your keyboard.
Then, click on your document to apply the brush.
I'd like to use the same brush and rotate it.
Continue to apply a variety of explosion brushes onto your document.
Next, we'll create tiny shards exploding from the center.
To make it easier to navigate over our document.
scroll to the basic round brushes and click a small brush.
Make a new layer.
I'll name it, "Exploding shards".
Fill it with black by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + Delete.
Go to Filter, Noise and Add Noise.
Make the amount: 100%, Gaussian and Monochromatic.
Go back to Filter, Blur and Gaussian Blur.
Blur it point 3 pixels.
Press Ctrl or Cmd + L to open your Levels window.
Drag the Input shadow slider to the right and the Input Highlight slider to the left
to create a speckled background.
I'm using an input shadow level of 185 and and input highlight level of 195.
Convert it to a Smart Object and go to Filter Blur and Radial Blur.
Blur it 5 pixels, the Blur Method: Zoom and the Quality: Best.
Change the Blend Mode to Screen.
Next, we'll add a dust cloud.
Scroll to the bottom of the Layers panel, make the bottom layer active
and make a newlayer above it.
I'll name it, "Smoke cloud".
Fill it with black and open the Brush Picker.
Click the "Free Powder Photoshop Brushes 3" brush set I provided.
Again, if you don't see it, click the gear icon to open your list of brush presets and
click it to see it in the Brush panel.
Click one of the smoke / powder brushes.
For its size, type in 1100 pixels.
Go to the center of your image and click once.
Next, we'll vary its density.
Reduce its opacity to 50% and click the Layer Mask icon to make a Layer Mask next to the smoke cloud.
Go to Filter, Render and Clouds.
Next, we'll colorize our entire image.
Scroll to the top and click the top layer.
Click the Adjustment Layer icon and click, "Hue / Saturation".
Check, "Colorize".
I'll type in a Hue of 220 and keep its default saturation of 25, but feel free to experiment
with these amounts to get the hue and saturation you like.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
Thanks for watching!