Creating Cardiac Rate Effect with Photoshop

April 20th, 2011 in Text Effects | Written by Photoshop Star | 53 Comments

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On this Photoshop tutorial i am going to show u how to make cardiac rate effect which I got by experimenting with Photoshop filters.

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Creating Cardiac Rate Effect

Note: This is one old tutorial updated.

Step 1

Create a new document with size of 700×700 pixels for this tutorial. Select the Paint Bucket Tool and fill canvas with black color (#000000).

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Step 2

Apply Gradient Overlay to this layer by going to Layer > Layer Style > Gradient Overlay.

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Step 3

Create a new layer. Merge both layers (Shift+Ctrl+E) to get all effects on one layer and apply Filter > Brush Strokes > Sprayed Strokes with following settings:

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Step 4

Select Horizontal Type Tool and write something like BEAT. Text color should be white, font selected was Swis721 BdOul BT Bold (free font), 120px and smooth.

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Step 5

Select the Line Tool (Weight: 3 px) and draw the lines like on my image below:

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Step 6

Merge all line layers with text layer into one layer. Select Eraser Tool and hard round brush (12px, opacity 100%) and delete lines like i show on my image below.

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Step 7

Rotate layer by going to Edit > Transform > Rotate 90 CCW.

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Step 8

Apply Filter > Stylize > Wind with following settings:

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Step 9

Press Ctrl+F one more time to repeat filter.

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Step 10

Apply Filter > Stylize > Wind again but update direction to Right:

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Step 11

Press Ctrl+F one more time to repeat filter.

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Step 12

Rotate text by going to Edit > Transform > Rotate 90 CW.

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Step 13

Go to Layer > Layer Style and apply Outer Glow and Color Overlay to this layer.

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Final Image

Creating Cardiac Rate Effect

We have completed this tutorial with this final step.

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53 Responses to “Creating Cardiac Rate Effect with Photoshop”

  1. shifaazham Reply December 29, 2009 at 11:51 pm

    Wow! This is so cool! Now I have something new to do for my Senior Page! Thanks a lot for the awesome tutorial! :D

  2. willis Reply December 30, 2009 at 4:00 pm

    I’m real glad I found your site! Where can I get this font? I can not locate it on the web and really want to try this tutorial you made. Thanks

  3. mandeepleo5 Reply January 1, 2010 at 11:07 pm

    Thank u very much. Superb tutorial.

  4. berto91 Reply January 6, 2010 at 4:56 pm

    @Willis – Here you go: http://font-cat.com/font-en-8685.html

    So glad I came across this site, I’ve just started a digital media course and this has really made me feel more comfortable with photoshop, thanks very much!!

  5. agnesia pandora Reply January 13, 2010 at 6:47 am

    i have problem with this step ” After that create a new layer and merge it with previous to get all effects in one layer. Then apply Filter > Brush Strokes > Sprayed Strokes with next parameters”. i try then but the sprayed strokes not work. thx for help.

  6. HellCritical Reply January 17, 2010 at 4:08 am

    @agnesia pandora – I have this problem too. :( Nobody can help us?!

  7. hamid_00a Reply January 18, 2010 at 2:53 am

    hi
    tanx for tutorials
    what’s font name? i do not have

  8. laurie Reply January 24, 2010 at 6:49 pm

    Really nice tutorial :)

  9. ashwani Reply January 30, 2010 at 11:52 am

    nice tutorial it help me a lot in working and advertise

  10. Badlad220 Reply February 7, 2010 at 2:42 am

    can u use photoshop cs2 to do this and if so wot font

  11. awwiii Reply February 23, 2010 at 9:52 am

    hey
    i can change the colour at gradient overlay…
    please help me

  12. awwiii Reply March 6, 2010 at 4:15 am

    hey great!
    i have done this.!

  13. Tarun Reply March 12, 2010 at 3:03 am

    greate

  14. chickenliver Reply March 24, 2010 at 9:35 am

    hey agnesia and hellcritical, to get the effect to work you have to merge visible not merge down-hope that helps

  15. amandafin Reply April 12, 2010 at 8:22 am

    Looks awesome, but I can’t find my line tool :D Where it is? (Its not where it is in your photoshop, Im using photoshop cs4)

  16. rendi666 Reply July 21, 2010 at 1:57 pm

    nice tutorial…

  17. photaky Reply August 7, 2010 at 6:33 am

    I have the same problem…I can’t apply the Sprayed Strokes…any help please?

  18. jennilyn g. rivera Reply October 23, 2010 at 6:14 am

    i like it. i will use it on designing manual for the hospital

  19. Sayed Elham Reply November 15, 2010 at 11:10 am

    thanks for this …..

  20. abhishek Reply December 6, 2010 at 5:19 pm

    thanks for this tutorial….
    its totally awesome…

  21. yonatanp Reply February 27, 2011 at 1:10 am

    what font did you use?

  22. Amer Reply April 21, 2011 at 3:34 am

    It’s a good tutorial.

  23. kalay Reply April 21, 2011 at 10:29 am

    i like this tutorial. very nice.

  24. badri Reply April 22, 2011 at 4:08 pm

    explanation is very nice

  25. jen Reply April 23, 2011 at 4:57 am

    how did u use the line tool and merge it w/ the text? mines giving me a box when using line tool.

    • Micah Reply May 16, 2011 at 9:09 pm

      click and hold on your text layer, then click ctrl for whhichever layer you want to select, then go to the layer drop down menu and choose merge layers. Also on the box, you have to right click it to select line tool.

  26. Gagandeep Reply April 24, 2011 at 7:01 am

    Useful Tut :) Thanks

  27. akCeL Reply April 24, 2011 at 8:06 pm

    ty, i used this effect for the Name of my girlfriend (wallpaper)

  28. Farana Reply April 25, 2011 at 6:25 am

    Very Nice..
    What is ur Photoshop software’s Version ?

    I hate photoshop till Now.. But NOW i just wanna use it right NOW :D

  29. VALENCE Reply April 29, 2011 at 7:16 am

    ITS AMAZING…THANKS….!:)

  30. Stephanie Reply May 1, 2011 at 12:06 am

    It looks neat, but I’d be incredibly terrified if somebody’s EKG reading had all of those tiny spikes…. They’d be pretty much dead if that ever happened…. Oh well. Still neat looking. Thanks for the tutorial!

  31. Su Su Myat Reply May 4, 2011 at 9:25 am

    Thanks you. It’s simply for me so I like it.

  32. Rajneesh Gadge Reply May 5, 2011 at 10:46 am

    Nice tutorial!!

    Keep Writing :)

  33. Akramullah Ashraf Reply May 18, 2011 at 2:55 am

    Thanks you. It’s simply for me so I like it.

  34. Rachelle Straughn Reply May 26, 2011 at 5:36 pm

    This tutorial was very easy! It only took me 10 minutes! But it’s great for beginners. I love how this tutorial has the color codes. But I wish there was layer pictures. :)

  35. Mick3lHD Reply May 29, 2011 at 1:37 am

    Wow nice lovin it keep it up (:

  36. naeem Reply June 2, 2011 at 2:29 am

    nice tut man keep it up

  37. Trey Titone Reply June 2, 2011 at 3:09 pm

    Thinking about using this for a logo on my website. Thanks for the tutorial!

  38. Mary Reply June 6, 2011 at 8:41 pm

    Omg I can not rotate my layer :o . It says: ~The selected portion of the path does not enclose any pixels.
    I followed all the steps since STEP 7. What is the problem?
    I tryed Ctr+T combination to free transform edit and I get the same message.

    Roarr Im a pretty noob :/
    Helpp >.<

  39. Mohamed Sameer Reply June 21, 2011 at 1:55 pm

    Very nice and simply work for grate effect. I like it.

  40. yakin Reply July 2, 2011 at 8:17 am

    nice and simply work for grate effect. I like it.

  41. Hanna Reply August 8, 2011 at 3:15 pm

    Great tutorial ……thanks

  42. achraf_morocco Reply August 8, 2011 at 7:11 pm

    hi i don’t have swis721 in my cs3

  43. sangbloger Reply August 10, 2011 at 3:39 am

    nice tutorials… thanks

  44. Abdul Mannan Asif Reply August 27, 2011 at 1:56 am

    Excellent Design:)

  45. michael Reply August 28, 2011 at 4:38 pm

    I started studying photoshop using tutorials from this website and it gave me a hyper boost

  46. Rajesh Reply September 15, 2011 at 12:03 pm

    very nice

  47. Romeo1312 Reply September 23, 2011 at 10:38 am

    You should name your Layers !
    How much layers do you use with the Line Tool ?
    Which layers do you merge ?
    Why does all my image became pink instead of the word Beat with de Beating line ?

    Thanks for your answer !

    Otherwise great tutorial !!!

  48. Salman Reply January 3, 2012 at 1:57 pm

    Great site… really helped me a lot… thx

  49. Spitfire Reply January 19, 2012 at 6:40 pm

    nice easy, well explained tutorial

  50. sumit Reply March 24, 2012 at 4:08 pm

    difficulty with drawing line………..

  51. amr Reply May 7, 2012 at 1:36 pm

    i can’t Merge all line layers with text layer into one layer…i hope you to help me :)