Making a Random Strife Effect

October 5th, 2006 by Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Special Effects

Making Random Strife

This is really just one of those random effects I made up when I was photoshop-freestyling… It’s really pretty useless, but I found out it’s great for signature-backgrounds or headers!

Learn how to create one of those famous and simple effects!

  • Step 1 Open up a new image any size and press D and Filter>Render>Clouds;

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  • Step 2 Press Filter>Pixelate>Mezzotint and choose short strokes;

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  • Step 3 Then add Filter>Blur>Radial Blur, Zoom, best, 100 2 times;

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  • Step 4 Add Filter>Disort>Twirl and set it to the max!;

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  • Step 5 Duplicate the layer and flip it horizontal;

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  • Step 6 Set the blending mode to lighten;

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  • Step 7 Press Ctrl+E and Ctrl+U and play around with the settings;

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  • Step 8 And then you can add anything you like…

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Author        :  MICK MOOLHUIJSEN 
HomePage :  http://www.mickm.com