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Create A Futuristic Abstract Text Effect in Photoshop

This Photoshop tutorial provides 15 steps to create a futuristic abstract text effect. The steps include: creating a new document with black canvas; adding white text; merging layers; applying wave, fragment, and glowing edges filters; copying to a new channel; loading selection and filling with white; duplicating and blurring background; adding blurred text; adding clouds layer with gradient overlay; adding bokeh lights; adjusting exposure. Following these steps allows creation of a text effect that looks futuristic and abstract, suitable for movie posters.

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Create A Futuristic Abstract Text Effect in Photoshop

This Photoshop tutorial provides 15 steps to create a futuristic abstract text effect. The steps include: creating a new document with black canvas; adding white text; merging layers; applying wave, fragment, and glowing edges filters; copying to a new channel; loading selection and filling with white; duplicating and blurring background; adding blurred text; adding clouds layer with gradient overlay; adding bokeh lights; adjusting exposure. Following these steps allows creation of a text effect that looks futuristic and abstract, suitable for movie posters.

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Create a Futuristic Abstract Text Effect in Photoshop

in photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial , we will discuss how to create futuristic


abstract text. You may often encounter this type of text in media that
has a futuristic impression in it, such as movie posters for
example. For the steps to make it, it's very easy! No special
techniques will be used, only standard tricks that even beginners can
try. Let's just go to step by step how to make it. Good luck, hopefully
useful!

Step 1
Create a new document, set the width to 800px and Height 600px.

Step 2
Fill the canvas with black color, then make the text "DESIGN" with
white color, I
used the Futura font, just adjust the size as shown below.
Step 3
Press Ctrl+E on the Keyboard, so that the layers are merged into one.

Step 4
Choose Filter>Distort>Wave . Arrange the points as illustrated
below, If you have, press OK.
Step 5
Next select Filter>Pixelate>Fragment , so the result will look like the
image below
Step 6
Select again Filter>Style>Glowing Edges . Set the points as shown
below, click OK.
Step 7
The next step is to press Ctrl+A then Ctrl+C on the keyboard
to copy , then Paste (Ctrl+V) in the Channel section, after
clicking New Channel which is in the lower right corner (see image
below), the new Channel is automatically named "Alpha 1".
Step 8
Go back to the Layer Palette , click the New Layer iconthen
select Select>Load Selection . Then open the channel
palette. Select "Alpha 1", so that the selected part appears (see image
below), fill the selected part with white using the Paint Bucket Tool .
Step 9
Next Ctrl+J (to duplicate the layer) on the Background layer so that
the background copy layer appears, then
select Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur . Set the radius to 1.5 pixels, click
OK.
Step 10
Next type the text STUDIO on the keyboard, then
select Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur . Set the
radius to 0.5 pixels, click OK

Step 11
Create a new layer, then select Filter>Render>Cluods , make sure
the Foreground is white and the Background is black, then double
click on the Clouds layer so that the Layer Style window appears,
check the Gradient Overlay section, set as illustrated below.
Step 12
Change the Blending Mode to Screen and lower the Opacity to 35%
See the result as shown below
Step 13
Enter the image of the circles of light ( Bokeh ) which you can
find here . Adjust the size, click Enter on the keyboard
Step 14
Change the Blending Mode of the bokeh layer to Soft Light and
lowerits Opacity to 85%.
Step 15
Then select Image>Adjustments>Exposure . Set the point as shown
below
The final result

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