Advanced Blast Effect »
By MaxW on Dec 9, 2004 in Photoshop | 0 Comments
Create this advanced blast method.
1) Make a 400×400 document. Now press “D” on your keyboard to reset the foreground and background colors to black
and white. Make sure your background is BLACK.
2) Make a new Layer. Now apply Filter>Render>Clouds
then Filter>Render>Difference Clouds.

3) Now hit CTRL+L or Image>Adjustments>Levels.
Use these settings.

Your image should look something like this, just not the same pattern.
4) Now hit CTRL+I or Image>Adjustments>Invert.
Your image should now be similar to this.

5) Now hit CTRL+U or Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation.
Use these settings.
Your image should look something like this.
6) Now duplicate this layer Layers>Duplicate Layer. Change
the new layers blending mode to Color Dodge.

Your image should look something like this.
7) Now go to Layers>Merge Down to merge these two layers
into one.

Now apply Filters>Blur>Radial Blur and use these
settings.
Now your done! Heres my final effect: