Color2Alpha Wind Text!!

1. File/New

2. Image Size 640x480 pixels and click OK.

3.The Background Color Has to be Black.

Get your text tool Foreground Color to White

Use any font you want and font size 40.

4.Grab your move tool and move your text to 

the Middle of the layer.

5. Go to Layer/Layer to image size.

6.Now Duplicate your layers 4 times.

7. On the First Duplicate Layer Go to
Filters/Distort/wind

                                                           This are the settings you have to use
                                                            For Style: Wind, Direction: right Edge effect: leading
                                                            threshold:5 Strength:20

                                                              Your image should look like this one Below.

8.Click on the second Duplicated layer

Go to Filters/Distort/wind

Keep all the same settings but this time

for the direction is left.

                                                           Your image should look like the one
                                                            in the below.

9.Click on the Third duplicated layer

go to Layer/Transform/Rotate 90 degree angle 

clockwise.

                                                            It should look like the image below.

                                                            Go to Filters/Distorts/Wind.

                                                                 The same settings Directions is left.

                                                             Your image should look like the one
                                                               below.

                                                            Go to Layer/Transform/Rotate 90 degree
                                                              and angle counter clockwise.

The image should look like the one below.

10. Now go to the last Duplicated layer 

Go to Layer/Transform/Rotate 90 degree angle  Clockwise.

It should look like the image below.

                                

Now go to Filters/Distorts/Wind.

Keep the same settings but the Direction is right.

It should look like the one before.

Now go to Layer/Transform/Rotate 90 degree angle 

counter clockwise.

Your image should look like the one below.

11. Move the Original layer all the way to the top

Right click on the layer and go to 

Alpha to Selection.

You can see that you have selected the font.

shown on the image below.

Now you add a new layer and name it outline.

Then go to Select Grow.

And Grow it by 2 Pixels.

and click OK.

when you've done that move the new layer

to the bottom of the original.

12.Grab the Bucket Fill Tool choose the color as black.

13. Go to Select/None

It should look like this.

14. Go to Filters/Blur/Motion Blur

Blur it by 5

Angle by 5 

Your image should look like this.

Now Press Ctrl M to merge all

the layers.

Like so it would look like one layer

in your layer dialog.

15. For the Final Step

Go to Colors

You could use Colorize or Color balance

As you can see i used Colorize it's your choice 

to what you want to choose.and press OK.

And here it the Final Image :)

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