Message #141691

[BioK]

The swirlie thingie?

1. Create a new document. I made a 8 inches x 8 inches with white background. Then, fill the background layer with black color. Create a new layer, then also fill it with the black. I used inches for no reason.
2. Go to the menu Filter -> Render -> Lens Fare. You drag the cross icon to the exact middle. (Close is still enough)
3. In this step, still on the top layer, you use Free Transform (press Ctrl + T), to reduce the height to 28.3%.
4. Next, you duplicate the current layer, then rotate it for 90 degrees, so it is like a plus sign.
5. Then, you choose the blending mode for this layer is Lighten.
6. The purpose of these steps is to create a lighting-flower. So, I continue to duplicate the "Free Transformed" layer, drag it to the top, rotate it about 45 degree, and applied the Lighten mode for Blending Options also.
7. Then, you duplicate the layer 1 again, drag it to the top, rotate it about -45 degree, then applied the Lighten for Blending Option. You will have a freakish cross between an 8-petaled flower and a black hole.
8. Double click on the background layer (the bottom layer), then press Ok to unlock it.
Then, go to the menu Layer -> Merge Visible.
And then, press Ctrl + T to go in Free Transform mode, and increase both height and width to 225%
9. Go to the menu Filter -> Distort -> Wave, and applied the settings below:

Sine
155 Generators
Wavelenghth: 752 - 794
Ampitude: 6 - 34
Scale: 100%, 100%
Wrap Around

10. Duplicate the layer and then go to the menu Filter -> Distort -> Twirl, and applied the settings below.
346 for the angle then press ok. You also applied Screen mode for Blending Options on this new layer.
11. Now, you continue to duplicate the layer and rotate it again, and again to create some abstract graphics In my works, I duplicated it about 4 times, and rotate it in each different ways to have this result.
12. Then press the round button (half black, half white) at the bottom of the Layer panel and select Levels to open the Levels dialogue, then you could use my numbers below. or you could play around with others.

36, 0.94, 255
0 - 255

12. In this step, you try with Hue/Saturation.

218
41
Colorize


Then you are done. You can also do random stuff like me.