It took me 25 years to figure this out in Photoshop! 

Haha... I definitely get obsessed with a certain filter, like displace, then just keep messing with it endlessly...

@@Texturelabs I love it ! I just recently learned how to use displacement a little bit for textures and I love what can be achieved with it.

hahaha same thought never imagined he would arrive till here with all the steps involved

You need 25 years practise

Haha i think you made a type when writing "haha" xD

Awesome thanks Humberto!

That's because you only learn this after 25 years.

@@AyyyyyyyyyLmao 😂

20 years here. I have rarely used the Photoshop stock filters. It's like the programmers knew what they were doing when they added them.

Thank u a lot!!!

You need 15 years more to figure out things like this lol

OK

I got 29 years on PhotoShop but I use 3D software to do this - there's an image feedback an displacement trick you can do in most 3D software that does stuff like this, I use it for creating animated planet atmospheres.

Very cool, that's a nice compliment!

same here, never seen technique like this, very creative, i hit like button when he asking, and subscribed at the end of video, need to watch other video from his channel

@@Texturelabs Thanks for this tutorial, very pleasant to see and hear

You can't teach that level of PS greatness. The man simply has a gift.

I still don't get it. Why can't he just raster the text layer?

@@gavlang I think because he didn't need a "Rasterize Layer" command, but a "Rasterize Layer Style" command which only happens of you have a style to rasterize. If that's the case then it might work with other styles set to 0% opacity as well.

Haha right on... I seriously have been trying to figure it out for years too!

Photoshop 2.0 on a floppy disk... Just the fact having a colour scan of a photo on your computer was mind blowing by then... Good old times.

You got it man... Appreciate the comment, that's really cool.

Very nice to hear that from a teacher, thank you!

No problem.... Just checked out your channel, totally! That advanced glow is rad.

Ah that's good to hear! Always hesitant to cloud up the screen, but it even helps me to try to make it super linear

Use those tears for optimal bleeding effects

God bless you for this comment.

Ah that sounds really frustrating! I definitely want to try to help get it working... thinking the problem could be one of two things: The Levels adjustment at 5:30 should be what makes each application of the effect a little bit lighter. Check that part (you can always double click the step in the action panel to edit it) and make sure it's the Black Output level that gets set to 30, and not the Black Input level. Otherwise, the action also uses the Darken blending mode in a bunch of places... I think if any of those were set to Multiply instead of Darken, it would probably create the same problem you're running into. I hope it's one of those two things, but if not, send me an email - address is in the About section of the channel - and I'll help solve it!

@@Texturelabs Yessss!! It was the level-adjustment. As suspected, the problem was sitting 30 cm in front of the screen lol Thanks a lot for your help and please keep up the awesomeness. You're teaching some beautiful sorcery here ❤️

Very cool, thank you for the kind words, and no prob!