20% Time 6/2/08

The school year is almost over!  Just one more week, then finals, and we are through.  Woohoo!

Anyway, this week I decided to try some more effects with blurring.  I found one tutorial for Gimp on tutorialized, but you can do the exact same thing with photoshop.  Actually, the overall effect turned out to be really similar to the exploding planet picture from way back a few months ago.  (New tuts are so hard to find, the only thing I really need is some new vectors to use, but again, very hard to find becasue the world runs on CS3 nowadays).  On the plus side though, the effect is still quite different and striking, and as soon as you see it, you will probably recognize it.  It is all generated on the computer, no pictures were edited, so it looks alot like some of my earlier posts, kind of reinicesent-y.

So, I started off with a text layer “aero nova tech”.  It is an inside joke; I know a guy who is trying to upstart a kind of backyard buisness with this name and uses any and every opportunity at school to advertise.  So I was thinking that alot of graphis design has to do with advertisement and that this would be an interesting little ‘hats off’ to this “company”. 

After that, I had a blackbackground put in and I duplicated the text.  After I had combined one of the duplicates with the background, I applied a polar coordinates filter to the image to unpolarize it across the top of the screen.  Then after rotating the picture, I applied some wind to the text, both left and right.  Then after repolarizing it back to how it was before, plus all of the rays that are now coming off of it, I had to actually do two motion blur filters with the zoom setting centered around the “o” in order to clarify the wind edges and amplify it a bit.

Then I took the original text layer and duplicated it one more time and expanded it by two pixels, blured it by 10 pixels, and set it to screen and placed it under the original text layer also.  Then, I changed the text to black so that it stands out and changed the color balance of the rays in the background.  This was the end result:

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