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Glorious Polar Text Effect
Glorious Polar Text 80x80In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a wonderful web for your text with some magic filter effects.

Step 1: Prepare a new 600x600 pixels document. Fill your background with black and use the Horizontal Type Tool(T) to write anything you like

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 Step 2: Duplicate this text layer by pressing Ctrl-J

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 Step 3: Merge the "small tutorials" and Background layers by click on "small tutorials" layer, hold down Ctrl and click on Background layer, right click and select Merge Layers ( or press Ctrl-E as a shortcut)

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 Step 4: Now rotate your image by go to Image > Rotate Canvas > Arbitrary and type 45 in Angle textbox and choose oCW option

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 Step 5: Go to Filter > Stylize > Wind and choose "From the Left" option

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 Step 6: Press Ctrl-F four times to repeat this effect. Go to Filter > Stylize > Wind again but this time we choose "From the Right" option. Press Ctrl-F four times again! This is our image at this time

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 Step 7: Now rotate it to normal position by go to Image > Rotate Canvas > Arbitrary. This time we rotate 45oCCW

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 Step 8: Go to Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates and choose "Polar to Rectangular" option

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Step 9: Go to Filter > Pixelate > Color Halftone and use the default settings (Max Radius 8, Channel 1 108, Channel 2 162, Channel 3 90, Channel 4 45). After this step, we get:

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 Step 10: Go to Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates and choose "Rectangular to Polar" option

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 Step 11: Blur it a little by go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and use a radius of 1.5 pixels

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 Step 12: Now press Ctrl-U to open the Hue/Saturation dialog box, make sure to tick on the Colorize checkbox and use these settings (or whatever you like)

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 Here is the result:

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 If you don't like the white text then use some effects on the text layer. I just use "Drop shadow" and "Color Overlay" (with #FD9CDC text color) effects to keep this tutorial small!

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