Color Burst
Use a simple brush, add some blur and some color and get this nice burst effect. This tutorial also shows this effect in a few different distort filters.

author:
  Ryan
title:
  Color Burst
date:
  Fri 20 May 2005
category:
  Photoshop Filter Effects
credits:
 


New Document

Make a new document, anysize doesn't matter. Now press "D" on your keyboard to reset the foreground and background colors to black and white. Make sure your background is BLACK.



Brush Tool

First select the brush tool and go to the brush drop down menu. Use the Butterfly Brush Tool:





Apply Filter - Radil Blur

Now scatter the butterflies through-out the canvas. After doing so go to Filter>Blur>Radial Blur and use these settings:





Hue Settings

Press CNTRL+U and use these Hue Settings:





Duplicate Layer

Duplicate the layer, set the top Layer blend to Overlay:





Apply Different Filters

Now you got a graphic that looks similar to mine below:


You can fool around with the Filter>Distort filters. I tried the twirl filter and got:


Then I tried the Wave filter and got:


I personally like the Wave filter for this effect. Hope you enjoyed this easy tutorial.


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