Light Burst Tutorial

Step 1: Set your foreground color to black (click D). type your text. Rasterize your type layer Put a selection around your text (apple + click on T in layers pallet). Go under the select menu and choose save selection. 

Step 2: Deselect your type. Switch your foreground color to white (click X). Under the Edit Menu choose fill. Change the mode to multiply. Go under Filter menu, under blur, choose Gaussian blur. Enter 2.5 pixels.

Step 3: Go under the filter menu under stylize and choose solarize. Press shift + apple + L to run the auto levels. Duplicate layer.

Step 4: Filter menu, under distort, Choose polar coordinates. Choose Polar to rectangular.

Step 5: Go under the image menu, under rotate canvas, choose 90º CW. Invert your image (apple + I). Filter menu, choose stylize, choose wind. 

Step 6:  In wind dialog box choose wind for method and from right for direction. Run this filter 2 more times by pressing apple + f twice. 

Step 7: Invert your image. run auto levels. run the wind filter 3 more times. Rotate canvas 90º CCW. Filter menu, distort, choose polar coordinates.

Step 8: in polar coordinates choose rectangular to polar. Change layer blend mode from normal to screen.

Step 9: Create a new layer. Choose a gradient. Drag your gradient through this layer. Change the blend mode to color. 

Step 10: Click on your text layer copy. Filter menu, under blur choose Radial Blur. In Dialog Box chose zoom. Increase amount to 66. Click your original text layer.. Select menu, load selection. Choose Alpha 1. change your foreground color to black. Deselect your text.