Electric Text Effect

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Electric text effect

Make a new document, let’s say 800×800 pixels and fill it with black.

Write a large text with white. I’ve chosen “Electric” with impact font, size 120 pts.

Go to Layer > Rasterize > Type to the layer with the text on it.

Right click on the rasterized layer and choose “duplicate layer” and hit OK. Then, hide it by clicking on

the eye next to it. Don’t worry, we will need it later.

Right click on the “Electric” layer and choose “merge visible”.

Go Image>Rotate Canvas> 90 CW. Your image should look like this:

Go to Filters>Stylize>Wind. Choose “wind” and “from the right”. Press CTRL+F (Command+F on Mac) another 2

times to repeat the filter. After that, go again to Filters>Stylize>Wind and repeat the procedure, but this

time with “from the left” option. Again, with 2 times CTRL+F.

Go Image>Rotate Canvas> 90 CCW. Your image should look like this:

Go again to Filters>Stylize>Wind and repeat the procedure, from the right and from the left, but with only one Ctrl+F each.

Go to Filters>Distort>Ripple. Select the amount desired. I’ve chosen Amount 200% and Size “medium”.

Go to mage>Adjustments> Hue/Saturation or hit CTRL+U (Command+U on Macintosh).

In the menu that will appear, choose “colorize” and move the “Hue” slider until you reach your desired color.

Your image should look like this:

Now, with the CTRL key (Command key on Macintosh) pressed, click on the thumbnail next to the “Electric copy” layer. You’ll notice the selection appeared.

With the selection activated, go to Select>Modify>Contract and choose 4 pixels. Hit OK.

Now go to Edit>Fill and in the menu choose Foreground (or backgound color, whatever is black) than hit OK.

Your final image should look like this:

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Creating A Film Border Effect

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Film Effect
First time, click File>New and set your canvas size as shown in the example.

Make a new layer .On it draw a rectangular marquee about 800 pixels width and 1000 height and fill it with black . Press CTRL+D or Command+D on Macintosh to deselect.

				Select Background eraser tool.
In it’s options fields put Diameter between 20-30, Hardness 100% and spacing between 150-170%. I’ve chosen 160%. Remember that these values are variable, it depends on what canvas size you have chosen.
	Click in the upper right hand corner of the rectangle. Hold your shift key down and click just below the film’s lower right hand corner. Release the shift key and click in the upper left hand corner of the film. Hold the shift key down and click below the film just below the lower left hand corner. Your image should be like this:
Open 3 photos you like and position them on the film as in the example.
			Turn your background off by clicking the eye next to it, then right click on a layer and choose merge visible to glue the photos on the film layer.
With the film layer selected, click Filter>Distort>Shear.

		In the options dialogue that will appear, make your curve like in the example given. You can play around until you are satisfied with the result.
Click Edit=>free transform or press CTRL+T (Command+T on Mac). Set the height to 80%, width to 70% and angle to 30 degrees. Again, I remind you that these values are variable and you can play until you like the result.

Double click the layer to bring up layer styles and blending options. Click the Drop shadow category. Set the shadow to opacity 30%, , Distance 25 px, Spread 0 and Size 5 px.

To make the effect look better, select the background layer. Use a Foreground to Background radial gradient, starting from the middle of the canvas, right under the film. For my example, I used Foreground #132844 and Backgound #ffffff.

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Creating A Fire Background

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Fire Background
First, click File>New and set the size ot Width 600 and Height 900 pixels.

Assuming you have the Foreground and Background set to the default Black and White colors, select Filter>Render>Clouds.

After this, go again to Filter>Render>Difference Clouds and apply it. If not satisfied with the result, press CTRL+F or CMD+F on Mac to apply it again and again.

Your resulting image should look like in the example here shown:
After finding a suitable filter, select Image>Adjustments>Levels. Move the slider as in the image to add more contrast to the clouds.


After this, select Filter>Distort>Polar Coordinates and select “Polar to Rectangular” in the Polar Coordinates control panel.


Select Image>Rotate Canvas>Flip Canvas Vertical.

Your image should look like this:
Make a new adjustment layer, solid color, as in the example. Let’s pick some orange color and click OK. Change the blend mode of the orange layer to Color Burn, 100%.

Make a new adjustment layer, solid color, but this time give it a red color. From the layers box, change the blend mode to screen, 10%.
Finally, you can select the background layer and give it a sharpen filter, where you can play with values until you are satisfied with the results.

	Your final image should look like this: