Swirly Tunnel

[Badinflewinse]

Quick and easy tutorial to make a kind of trippy, swirling tunnel effect. I use photoshop cs but you can probably do it very easily in all other photoshop versions.

After opening photoshop go to File>New(control+n)

For this I'll be using 400x400

Press D to reset your colors

Grab your gradiant tool. Choose linear gradient, and I turned reverse off.

Drag down the gradient until you have something similer to my picture. It'll probably take a few tries until you get something that looks good.

What we got so far:


Now do Filter>Distort>Wave

Use these settings:


Next is Filter>Distort>Polar Coordinates, and choose rectangular to polar.

Starting to look cool now:


Now go to Layer>Duplicate Layer

With the bottom layer selected press control+f (unclick the the top layers eye to see it)



Now select your top layer (make sure it's visable) and do Filter>Distort>Twirl

And set the angle to 50 and hit "OK"

And hit control+f to do it again

With the top layer selected choose it's blending mode to difference

Now you can choose to color it or not

What my end result was:


Post results, comments, or criticism. This tutorial is based off the one I found here I edited the instructions in my own way and used my own pictures.

[Mitch]

I like this effect very much indeed! good job!

Edit: My outcome...

[YoungCoder]

That does look pretty funky! :)

[Badinflewinse]

Nice result sketchie :nerd: