[Guide]How to make a vortex

[`Gerero®]

Step 1: Use gradient tool set to diference and go berserk... make sure its dark and light green...(try to get it to look alienish) then duplicate. Merge each gradient layer to a regular layer for editing.

 

 

Step 2: Select Filter, and go Stylize-Find Edges (on the duplicate)

 

 

Step 3: Invert colours (ctrl+I)

 

 

Step 4: Filter-blur-radial blur, These settings:

 

Amount: 50, Blur Method: Zoom, Quality: Best

 

 

Step 5: Filter>stylize>Extrude, these settings:

 

Type: Pyramids, Size: 3 Pixels, Depth: 30, Random

 

 

Step 6: Set blending mode to "Pin light" and merge down (ctrl+E)

 

 

Step 7: Duplicate the layer twice

 

Use on middle layer: Filter-Distort-Twirl Angle 200%

 

Use on top layer: Filter-Distort-Twirl Angle 400%

 

 

Step 8: On the top layer Edit-Transform-Flip Horizontal and set the settings to screen and merge down

 

 

Step 9: Duplicate the layer twice and use theese settings on the middle layer

 

Filter - Artistic - Plastic Wrap. Use these settings:

Hightlight strength: 15

Detail: 9

Smoothness: 7

 

 

Step 10: Use Filter-Stylize-Wind on the middle one (any direction) then turn it cw 90dg and press ctrl+f

continiue all the way around, and set the layers ocapacity to 60%. (Make sure to use wind on each turn of canvas.)

 

 

 

Step 11: Set the blending mode to "soft light" on the top layer and merge the layers in steps 1 through 11

 

 

Step 12: Make a new layer- fill it with black

 

 

Step 13: Go to Filter-Render-Lens Flare and set Brightness 100%, 50-300mm Zoom Lens Type

 

 

Step 14: Go to Filter-Sketch-Chrome and use default settings Detail 4, Smoothness 7

 

 

Step 15: Go to Filter-Distort-Twirl and use these settings: Angle 547

 

 

 

Step 16: Press Ctrl-J to duplicate this layer and go to Edit-Transform-Rotate 180 dg to rotate this layer 180 degrees.

 

 

Step 17: Change blending mode to Screen.

 

 

Step 18: Go to Layer-Flatten Image to merge the layers of steps12 through 18, then go to Image-Adjustments-Hue/Saturation and use below settings to color our image:

Hue - 298 Saturation - 77 Lightness - 0

 

 

Step 19: Use the Elliptical Marquee tool with 10 pixels Feather to make a selection area around our "storm"

 

 

Step 20: Then press Ctrl-Shift-I to invert the selection and press Delete to erase it.

 

 

Step 21: New layer - Filter-Render-Clouds - name bg (important for later) Using shades of green

 

 

Step 22: Next go to Filter-Brush Strokes-Accented Edges

 

Use these settings:

 

Edge Width: 4

 

Edge Brightness: 39

 

Smoothness: 6

 

 

Step 23: Next create a new layer - Set the new layers blend mode to "Overlay".

go to Filter-Render-Clouds.

Next go to Filter-Sketch-Chrome...

 

Use these settings:

 

Detail: 10

 

Smoothness: 10

 

opacity - 20

 

 

Step 24: Go back to the "BG" layer. Go to Image-Adjustments>Hue-Saturation... (Ctrl + U)

 

Use these settings.

 

Hue: 113

 

Saturation: 29

 

Contrast: 27

 

Then, still on the "BG" layer, go to Image-Adjustments-Brightness/Contrast

Use these settings.

 

Brightness: 5

 

Contrast: 27

 

Merge layers from steps 21 to 24

 

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Step 25: Create a new layer and press D and X to reset and swap your background and foreground colors to black and white then go to Edit-Fill and fill your document with black.

 

 

Step 26: We will create "wind" effect from some straight lines so go to Filter-Pixelate-Mezzotint and select Fine dots type from the drop-down box.

 

 

Step 27: To turn these dots to straight lines, go to Filter-Blur-Motion Blur and set an angle of 0 degrees - then set distance at 900

 

 

Step 28: We just need some of them and the best way to eliminate gray lines is to go to Filter>Stylize>Glowing Edges and use the default settings (Edge Width 1, Edge Brightness 20, Smoothness 11). Click OK

 

 

Step 29: Now we should duplicate this layer by pressing Ctrl-J so that we can preserve this layer in case we make some mistakes. Next we will turn these straight lines to curved ones by going to Filter-Distort-Wave and use these settings:

Number of generators - 15

Wavelength: min. - 85 max. - 164

Amplitude: min. - 1 max. - 15

Scale: Horiz. - 100% Vert. - 100%

 

 

Step 30: We can make a "plastic" effect by going to Filter-Artistic-Plastic Wrap:

Highlight Strength - 20

Detail - 15

Smoothness - 15

 

 

Step 31: Using Transform- bring top to center of the vortex with the wind layer.

 

 

Step 32: Dupilcate wind layer, go to transform- rotate - 60 degrees. Do this until you have four wind layers, have them meet as if you cut a pie into quarters.

 

 

Step 33: Make a new layer, gradient - black and white-radial- white in center

Make a second layer and fill with dark green

 

 

Step 34: Our layer order and modes will be: (Starting from bottom up)

 

First Background layer (one we started with at the very beginning)

 

Second Layer - one we created in steps 1 through 11 mode - normal opc - 100%

 

Third layer - layer we made in step 33 mode - soft light opc. - 100%

 

Fouth layer - layer we made in steps 23 through 24 mode - Soft Light opc - 100%

 

Fifth Layer - green layer we made in step 33 mode - Saturation opc - 100%

 

Sixth Layer - layer we made in steps 12 through 20 mode - Overlay opc - 100%

 

Seventh Layer - we add in our wind layers. mode - luminosity opc - 25%

Note: If you intend to have the vortex pulling in an object, make sure to place the object beneath the wind layer.

 

Flatten image and go to image - curves - strong contrast

 

blue vortex

 

red vortex

 

yellow vortex

 

 

pink and green vortex

 

 

multi1 vortex

 

multi 2 vortex

 

red 2 vortex

 

orange vortex

 

Black and white vortex

 

 

Credits: www.photoshoptalent.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Morian]

The last result is very good really! Yellow vortex pwned all! ^^

Thank you, I go to make one right now! :P

[™Dariuse®]

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