String Vortex
An interesting and and useful tutorial on how to create a string vortex

author:
  Blake
title:
  String Vortex
date:
  Mon 10 January 2005
category:
  Photoshop Filter Effects
credits:
 


New document

Open a new document, my dimensions were 380x300



Clouds Effects

Filter > Render > Clouds



Short Strokes

Filter > Pixelate > Mezzotint > Short Strokes>



Radial Blur

Filter > Blur > Radial Blur (Check Zoom, Amount 100, Quality best)



Preview

Press Ctrl + F, so far your design should look like this





Duplicate Layer

Layer > Duplicate Layer



Twirl Effects

On the duplicated layer, Filter > Distort > Twirl (Amount 100)



Blending Options

Right Click on the layer to BLENDING OPTIONS, blend mode: lighten



Merge

Ctrl + E for to merge the 2 layers, it should look like this now:





Choose Colors

Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation, check on COLORIZE and choose your colors.



Layers

Duplicate the layer and set the blend move to OVERLAY and fix up the opacity of the layer



Result

You are done! This is what your pic should look like:



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