PHOTOSHOP>Twirl

00: Learn to make the Web effect seen above

01: Start by opening a new document 600x600 pixels. Hit CTRL+R (to show rulers). On the X axis of the rules (the top) hold the mouse down and drag a Guide Line down to 300pixels on the Y axis (the left side)

02: Make a new layer.Set #33FF33 as forground color and black #000000 as background color. Fill the new layer withblack and the background with the green color.

03: Make a 3rd layer and select the Single Row Marquee Tool. Select a line in the middle of the document and fill it. Deselect (CTRL+D) and Edit>Transform>Rotate the layer. Hold SHIFT while rotating, this should rotate the line in 15 degrees increments.

04: Select the Single Row Marquee Tool again and make another line in the middle. Rotate again and rince repeat till you have this:

05: Now hold SHIFT down while you click on the layer with the lines in it to select them. Go to the Black layer and hit backspace to delete the selected area. Make the line layer invisible. Press CTRL+D to deselect the lines.

06: Hold SHIFT down and click on the black layer (make sure you are in the black layer)

07: Click Filter>Distort>Twirl and apply this:

08: You can get alot different images with different values here, so play around with it a bit.

09: At this point i copied the twirled layer. Clicked Edit>Transform>Flip Horizontally on the new layer.

10: Hold CTRL and click on the new layer to select it. Click Select>Inverse or CTRL+SHIFT+I. Now move to the original layer and hit backspace to get this effect.

You can get alot of different final images with a little playing around at this point

Hope you enjoyed the tutorial.

added june 11th 2005

thokes@strangebydesign.com

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