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| Energy Nova Tutorial Author - Joe (http://forums.biorust.com/member.php?u=157) |
Photoshop is the main tool many designers use to bring funky and rather unnatural creations to life. In many cases, an artist will layer various effects on a photographic base to create visually impressive montages. Sometimes, however, a single effect can produce production-quality graphics all by itself. The aim of this tutorial is to show you a remarkably simple way of creating energy swirls using a single technique, and then extrapolate the method to create a visually stunning masterpiece. Enjoy!
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Step 1: Create a blank document of any size (800px by 600px is a good start) and fill the background with a solid black colour. Select Filter > Render > Clouds from the main menu & make sure you have black and white selected as your background and foreground colours respectively. If you do this right you will have a cloudy texture like the one on the left. |
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Step 2: Apply Filter > Pixelate > Mezzotint
with the type list-box set to Short Strokes. After a
little processing time you should end up with an image that resembles the
one opposite. |
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Step 3: Its now time to create the main effect.
Run Filter > Blur > Radial Blur with your settings defined as
follows: |
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Step 4: With the bottom (background) layer
selected in your layer palette,
twirl the image a little by running Filter > Distort > Twirl with an
angle of +120. |
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Step 5: It looks interesting so far, but we can make it look better. To make your image look like the one opposite, select the top (duplicate) layer, and repeat Filter > Distort > Twirl, this time with the angle set to -180. Change the layer's blending mode to Lighten to phase the two layers together. Other blending modes have different funky effects, so feel free to experiment! |
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Step 6: Its time to add a little colour.
Choose Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation from the main menu
and enter in the following settings: |
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Step 7: It looks good, but we can still improve upon
it. Repeat step 6, but this time on the original background layer, and
with these settings: |
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Step 8: As a final touch, merge both layers
together by choosing Layer > Merge Visible from the main menu.
Once this has been done, run Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp Mask with
these settings: |