Typography Experiment

These are some typography experiments that I made in photoshop by following a tutorial.

I used a piece of paper that had been scrunched up for the background layer, too add texture. For the text I used a bold black font, that i then edited by making the letters closer together so that they overlap. I then added a fade effect on some of the letters by using triangle shapes and the blend tool. For the next layer i added in a nebula stock image on part of the text, changed the blend mode to screen and erased some of the image so that i was only left with the parts that covered the letters, this gave a spacey look. To add to the spacey look i added in the explosion effect that i previously created in photoshop but i changed the colour of it to be pink so that it would match the rest of the design. In the layers below i added some abstract shapes, a couple with a purple to pink gradient and a couple without any fill. 

For this design i used the same techniques as the experiment above but i removed the abstract shapes and i changed the background to black. This made the pink explosion effect much brighter and more effective.

I would possibly like to develop this idea further but I would need to change the colours as they currently make the design look like its made for a night time/ winter themed music festival but my music festival will be held in summer.