Blur Font Tutorial

This is a very easy tutorial on creating a motion-type blur font. It can be used to create signatures, website headers, and much more!

Step 1
http://www.gfxvoid.com/tutorials/blurfont/1.gif
Creat a new document, and add some text to it. The text should be a darker shade (for better visibility).

Step 2
http://www.gfxvoid.com/tutorials/blurfont/2.gif
Copy the text layer you just created, by dragging the layer to the bottom icon (in your layers window)

Step 3
http://www.gfxvoid.com/tutorials/blurfont/3.gif
Change the color of the origional layer (the second text layer). I selected a lighter blue, although darker colors work fine too!

Step 4
http://www.gfxvoid.com/tutorials/blurfont/4.gif
Rasterize your second layer (the above layer you just colored), in the above menu.

Step 5
http://www.gfxvoid.com/tutorials/blurfont/5.gif
On your second text layer go to the Motion Blur Filter in the above menu.

Step 6
http://www.gfxvoid.com/tutorials/blurfont/6.gif
Use the above effects once you clicked the motion blur. You can experiment with the distance, but I found 50 looks best.

You can stop here, but because the bottom blur-text layer I used was light, I decided to darken it up a bit...

Optional Step 7
http://www.gfxvoid.com/tutorials/blurfont/7.gif
Go to the Adjust Brightness/Contrast option under the Image menu (shown above).

Optional Step 8
http://www.gfxvoid.com/tutorials/blurfont/8.gif
On your blur-layer, darken it 100^ to make the text blur effect more noticeable.

Final Product
http://www.gfxvoid.com/tutorials/blurfont/9.gif
Here is my final product!

If you have any questions or comments, please post below so we could help you! Thanks for reading!

I like it, nice job, thanks.

oh yea nice tut man

PS: Twan nice sig :D the first one

oO~ I've always wondered how they did that effect~ thanks for the tutorial :D

That looks amazing dude. I like the effect a lot!

Just as another way to use this tutorial, you can set the angle of the motion blur to 90 if you want it a vertical blur. If you make this rasterized layer the same color as the original text, and lower the opacity a bit, the text almost looks ghostly, it's cool

that's one nice tutorial you've got there mate :D

wow. i wondered how you guys make those nice text effects...

nice tut man but there r very easy for someone to follow them.try to make and write a new tut wich will be more impressive
if u want you can make an animation image ...... ;)

it looks a bit like the matrix logo :P lol

woow, nice tut .. damnit always needed to know how to do that thanks alot

that's cool but how can you add that to a signiture

i guess what you do is add this thing to your file and save it in the way you save a signature

SWEEET :D i like it