Create a spinning fire of doom.
May 14th, 2006 by Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Special Effects
1. Make a new image (File > New or Ctrl+N) with 450px in width and 400px in height: 
2. Create a new layer (Layer > New > Layer or Shift+Ctrl+N) and then set your foreground color as black and background color as white.
3. Filter > Render > Clouds.
4. Filter > Artistic > Plastic Wrap: 
5. Filter > Brush Stroke > Crosshatch: 
6. Another Filter > Artistic > Plastic Wrap: 
7. Filter > Distort > Pinch: 
8. Filter > Stylize > Wind: 
9. Press Ctrl+F on your keyboard to apply the previous step once again.
10. Now apply the Wind effect again but this time from the left, Filter > Stylize > Wind: 
11. Once again press Ctrl+F on your keyboard to apply the previous step once again.
12. Filter > Distort > Twirl: 
13. Now your image should look similar to the one below: 
14. Duplicate the layer (Layer > Duplicate Layer), Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal, and then Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical.
15. Set the blending mode of that layer to Overlay.
16. Filter > Brush Strokes > Dark Strokes: 
17. Filter > Distort > Twirl: 
18. Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation or Ctrl+U (make sure Colorize is checked): 
19. Now select the 1st layer we created and add a Hue/Saturation there too (Filter > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation or Ctrl+U and once again make sure Colorize is checked): 
20. Now your image should look similar the one below: 
21. Create a new layer (Layer > New > Layer or Shift+Ctrl+N) and drag it to be on top of all the layers.
22. With your foreground color still black and background color still white, go to Filter > Render > Clouds.
23. Filter > Brush Strokes > Crosshatch: 
24. Filter > Artistic > Plastic Wrap: 
25. Filter > Distort > Twirl: 
26. Filter > Brush Strokes > Dark Strokes: 
27. Filter > Distort > Twirl: 
28. Now set the layers blending mode to Overlay. Now you should have your final image. Below is an image of my final result: 
