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| Diamond Burst Effect April 22, 2006 |
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| 1. Open a new document. I used 500x500, but you can use any size you want. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. Make sure that your foreground color is black, and background white. You can change it by either pressing D on your keyboard or clicking on the two small boxes under the large two that are layered on eachother. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3. Filter>Render>Clouds, then Filter>Render>Difference Clouds. Then press Ctrl+F or go Filter>Difference Clouds 20-22 times (Cmd for Mac users). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4. Filter>Distort>Ripple. Change the amount to 500 and make sure it says "Medium" in the drop-down box. Then press Ctrl/Cmd+F or go Filter>Ripple again. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5. Duplicate the layer. Do this by either pressing Ctrl+J, right click on the layer and select "Duplicate Layer" or Layer>Duplicate Layer. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6. Edit>Flip Horizontal. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7. Change the blending mode to "Lighten." If you don't know where the blending mode is, click here. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8. Then merge the layer by pressing Ctrl+E or Layer>Merge Down. Then duplicate the layer again. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9. Edit>Flip Vertical for the new layer. Then change to lighten, just like in step 7. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10. One again, merge together, and duplicate. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11. Edit>Flip 90CW. Change to lighten then merge. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12. Duplicate again. Click on the eye of the new layer so to hide it, then click on the bottom layer, and go Filter>Blur>Radial Blur. Then apply these settings: Amount:100 Blur Method: Zoom Quality:Best |
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| 13. Click on the top layer, reclick where the eye was so to make it visible, then change the blend mode to lighten. Then flatten your image. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14. Now all you have to do is add color. You can either use Color Balance or Hue/Saturation. Get these by going Image>Adustments>Color Balance or Hue/Saturation. You can also go Ctrl+B for Color Balance or Ctrl+U for Hue/Saturation. I usually vary with both with each tutorial, because sometimes Color Balance seems more suiting, other times Hue/Saturation seems to work better. This was my result with when first making-up the steps (with Color Balance). These two were the results I came-up with when typing out these steps, and made one purple and one blue (Hue/Saturation). |
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