Design a portal for backgrounds.

May 14th, 2006 by Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Special Effects

1. Start by making a new (File > New or Ctrl+N) image with the dimensions being 400px in width and height.
2. Create a new layer (Layer > New > Layer or Shift+Ctrl+N), then set your foreground color to #0066FF and background color to #000000.
3. Filter > Render > Clouds, then go to Filter > Render > Difference Clouds:



4. Filter > Artistic > Plastic Wrap:



5. Filter > Distort > ZigZag:



6. Filter > Brush Strokes > Crosshatch:



7. Filter > Sketch > Chrome:



8. Filter > Distort > ZigZag:



9. Filter > Distort > Twirl:



10. Now duplicate that layer and set the blending mode of the duplicated layer to Overlay.
11. Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal:



12. Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation (make sure Colorize is checked)



13. Filter > Brush Strokes > Dark Strokes:



14. Now your image should look somewhat like this:



15. Now go back to layer 1 and add the following: Filter > Distort > Pinch:



16. Were done!!! Your final result should look similar to the one below: