Photoshop CS: Color whirlpool vortex

This is a very useful and interesting exercise, with just a few simple steps using the fillter filter you will create a tornado with lots of colors.

Step1 . Ctrl + N Create a new document 300 x 300 px (white background #ffffff)

+ Press D to define the foreground, and the background by default (Black - white)
+ Press X to change the position of the front and back candles (white - black)

Step 2 . Click Fillter -> Render -> Clouds

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Figure 1

Step 3 . Click Fillter -> Pixelate -> Menzzotint , select Type: Short strokes

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Figure 2

Result

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Figure 3

Step 4 . Filter> Blur> Radial Blur, select:

+ Amount : 100
+ Blur Method : Zoom
+ Quality : best

Result

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Figure 4

Step 5 . Ctrl + F to add blur blur

Your design may look like the following.

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Figure 5

Step 6 . Right click Layer -> Duplicate Layer (or ctrl + J ) to copy the original layer.

Step 7 . On the copy layer, Click Filter> Distort> Twirl ( Amount : 200)

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Result

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Figure 7

Step 8 Right-click the copy layer -> BLENDING OPTIONS , blend mode : lighten

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Figure 8

Step 9 Right-click the copy layer -> Merge down (or Ctrl + E ) to merge the two layers into one

Your design may look like the following.

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Figure 9

Step 10 . Color the swirl.

Image> Adjustments> Hue / Saturation or ( Ctrl + U )

Set properties

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Figure 10

You should click on select colozize

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Figure 11

Step 11 . Add a bright white layer to the color swirl, or cover another layer of color for a more distinctive spin

- Duplicate layer (Ctrl + J)

- On copy layer -> BLENDING OPTIONS

- Blend mode : Overlay

The end result in my design

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Figure 12

Extensions .

You and I practice a little more, to get more colorful swirls, Not quite special !!!

- Starting from Step 8 .

- Instead of combining 2 working layers 1. You create color swirls for each layer.

- Click on each original layer -> Ctrl + U -> Adjust Hue / Saturation for Layer as follows

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Figure 13

- Click copy layer -> Ctrl + U -> color correction as:

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Figure 14

I have this picture.

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Figure 15

Each of the different clouds you choose will give different results, so what are the results of your practice? I wish you all create your own swirling colored circles.

Ngoc Lan