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Adding light effects to your type

Adding light effects to your type - Photoshop Tutorial

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Adding light effects to your type

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'd like to show you how to create this lighting effect using the radial filter. Here's the starting point, and because I want to apply a filter to my type layer, I am first going to convert my type layer to a smart object. Right click on it, Convert to Smart Object. Then come to the Filter menu, to Blur, and to Radial Blur. Now this filter is a very old filter. It doesn't have a preview, but we do get to change the blur center using this proxy here. It's not the most accurate, 'cause you just have to relate this to your image, but I want the blur to occur not from the center point, but from the left. And it's remembering the value that I used before. I'm going to go with an amount of 80 and this is a zoom, and in terms of the quality, obviously it takes longer to render it at best quality. Draft quality gives you a more grainy look which doesn't necessarily look any worse, it's just a different kind of feel to it. Anyway, I'm going to go with best…

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