Airplane turbine effect

July 27th, 2006 by Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Special Effects

1. Create New Document with size 400×400px.

2. Go to Gradient Tool, set colors black and white and tool’s mode to Difference. Apply Gradient from top left corner to right bottom corner.

Gradient Tool in Adobe Photoshop CS

3. Apply Filter>Render>Difference Clouds and repeated 20-30 times.

Difference Clouds in Adobe Photoshop CS

4. Duplicate the layer, do it again, need 2 copies of first layer:

Layer in Adobe Photoshop CS

5. Click on first duplicated layer and go to Filter>Distort>Wave:

Filter Wave in Adobe Photoshop CS

Press Randomise button for this Filter.

6. Repeat step 5 on second duplicated layer. Set mode for this layer to Lighten:

Layer to Lighten in Adobe Photoshop CS

7. Layer>Merge Visible.

8. Press Ctrl + U to open the Hue/Saturation menu:

Hue/Saturation in Adobe Photoshop CS

9. Duplicate the layer and go to Filter>Distort>Twirl and set it to 999%, apply to layer mode Lighten, now you can press Ctrl + Shift + E to Merge Visible:

Twirl in Adobe Photoshop CS

Results:

Results in Adobe Photoshop CS

10. Duplicate the layer and go to Filter>Pixelate>Color Halftone:

Color Halftone in Adobe Photoshop CS

Results:

Color Halftone in Adobe Photoshop CS

11. Apply Filter>Distort>Polor Coordinates:

Polor Coordinates in Adobe Photoshop CS



Polor Coordinates in Adobe Photoshop CS

12. Go to Filter>Blur>Radial Blur:

Radial Blur in Adobe Photoshop CS



Radial Blur in Adobe Photoshop CS

and set the layer mode to Lighten.

My Final Results:

Like airplane turbine effect in Adobe Photoshop CS

Good luck, and be sure to check out our other Photoshop Tutorials!