Swirled Vortex

May 13th, 2006 by Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Special Effects

Swirled Vortex

Author Name: TDW
URL: http://www.thedesignworld.com

1. Make a new document, I used 700×200. Press CTRL+D to reset your pallete colors. Start off with any color of background, I used white.


2. Starting with the Elipitical Marque Tool we want to make a lots of oval and round selections like below:



*Note if you hold SHIFT you can make numerous selections at once. Try it out :D

3. Make a new layer and fill the selection in with black:




4. Apply Filter>Distort>Wave with these settings:




5. Now apply Filter>Blur>Radial Blur:




6. Press CNTRL+U and use these colors settings or adjust to make a color that suits you:




7. Duplicate the layer and change the Blending Change to Linear Burn:




8. Apply Filter>Distort>Twirl to the Linear Burn layer with these settings:




9. Duplicate the layer one more time and add a little more Filter>Distort>Twirl.


10. Duplicate the layer again and rotate it:



Voila: