1) Make a 400x400 document. Now press "D" on your keyboard to reset the foreground and background colors to black and white. Make sure your background is BLACK.
2) Go to Filter>Render>Lens Flare. You want to add a few lens flares, so space them out in the middle of the canvas:
 3) Go to Filter>Distort>Polar Coordinates and use these following settings:
Now add your Hue settings. Use whatever you suits you best. I used a orangish color for mine. I also bumped the saturation up to +75. To add color press CNTRL+U.
 4) Duplicate the layer and apply the duplicated layer's blending mode to Linear Light.
Now press CNTRL+E to merge the 2 layers together.
5) Now go to Filter>Distort>Glass and apply these settings:
Apply Filter>Distort>Twirl with these settings:
There ya go, here is my quick abstract twirl:
Photoshop is so simple ;) |
