Learn to create a curly flare with some nice filter effects. This is a great example for learning new techniques

 Step 1: Create a new document, the bigger the better. I use 800x800px document. Fill the background with black by pressing D , X and Ctrl-Backspace. Choose the Horizontal Type Tool(T) with white text-color and type anything you want.

 

 

 

 

Step 2: Select Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates. Click OK to rasterize text into a real layer. Now the Polar Coordinates dialog box will appear. Select "Rectangular to Polar" and click OK

 

 

 

Step 3: Select Image > Rotate Canvas > 90^o CW

 

 

Step 4: Now right click on the "Flare layer" and select "Duplicate Layer"

 

 

Step 5: Select Filter > Stylize > Wind and click on the "From the Left" option, click OK

 

 

Step 6: Press Ctrl-F three times to make "Wind Effect" stronger, here is our image after this step:

 

 

Step 7: Now select Image > Rotate Canvas > 90^o CCW to rotate our image to normal position

 

 

Step 8: Next, select Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates, but this time we select "Polar to Rectangular" option

 

 

Step 9: Select the other layer ( the layer with no effect) and repeat step 8 with it. Now we have

 

 

Step 10: At this time, we need to group our layer-with-effect and the background together by selecting the layer-with-effect, hold down Ctrl and click on the background

 

 

Merge these two layers by selecting Layer > Merge Layers (or simply press Ctrl + E)

 

 

Step 11: We will add color to the Background by pressing Ctrl-U, the "Hue/Saturation" dialog box will appear, click on "Colorize" check box and choose appropriate values

 

 

Here is the result!