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Photoshop has a wealth of tools available to design funky and downright
outlandish effects. In many cases these special effects resemble
naturally-occurring textures but, in other instances, they can look like nothing
else on earth! This tutorial definitely belongs in the latter camp, and
the results apparently resemble a plasmid under an electron microscope... or so
I've been told!
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Step 1: Create a new 500px by 500px document with
a transparent background, and reset your background & foreground colours to default
(i.e. black & white). Add
a new layer on top, select the Gradient Tool, and set it to use a
radial gradient with
blending mode to difference.
Now go crazy with your Gradient Tool, drawing as many swirls as you like
in many different colours. Once you get fed up or bored, repeat the
process with the linear gradient. You should end up with something
that resembles my image on the left. |
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Step 2: Now Layer > Duplicate the
background layer, set the new layer's blending mode to screen, and
Layer > Merge visible to recombine them.
Tweak the colour to your own personal taste using Image > Adjustments >
Hue/Saturation with the colorize box checked. I chose a blue
(220 Hue 75 Sat).
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Step 3: Ok, that's the hard part done, so now onto
the fun bits! Click Layer > Duplicate and
select the top-most layer in the layers palette. Run Filter > Sketch > Chrome,
with the following settings:
Detail: 3
Smoothness: 7
Now select the layer without the chrome effect (i.e. the one at the
bottom of the layer palette), set its
blending mode to colour, and
Layer > Merge visible the two layers. Duplicate the layer a third
time, set the top layer's blending mode to multiply, and merge
them together again.
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Step 4: Are you getting the idea yet?
No? Well, just in case, Duplicate the layer, set the top
layer's blending mode to screen, and merge them together one final
time. Make the whole image more appealing by running Image > Adjustments
> Invert. Et voila, a weird plasmid-type effect! |
- Tutorial written by ngz
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OOPS I see! It says draw as many swirls as you like "in many different colors"! *grin* I knew it was something I wasn't paying attention to! Hope this helps the others with the same problem. Thanks again!
Quote from mayamaven;43282:
Please help: I followed the tut extremely carefully, repeated times, but I'm obviously doing something wrong, or missing something; I keep ending up with black and white images...it seems wrong, from the first illustration you used, as yours was multi-colored, and mine was only B&W at that stage (and remained that way, even after I colorized it in the Hue & Sat step...I'd love to know how to do this, but I'm stumped! Thanks for the tut, though, and more please! :-) |
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Please help: I followed the tut extremely carefully, repeated times, but I'm obviously doing something wrong, or missing something; I keep ending up with black and white images...it seems wrong, from the first illustration you used, as yours was multi-colored, and mine was only B&W at that stage (and remained that way, even after I colorized it in the Hue & Sat step...I'd love to know how to do this, but I'm stumped! Thanks for the tut, though, and more please! :-) |
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User: Tamlin (#36142)
Date: Sun Dec 31, 2006. 08:18:42 | Post #7 of 11 |
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Quote from Billythekid;36121:
I'm stuck at part 3, 'cause I don't know how to change Blending Option to Color!
Help plz :p |
There are a number of ways to do this in Photoshop, but the easiest is to use the dropdown menu in the Layers palette - see attached screenshot. |
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