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Kid Saiyan

Gel Blast Using Photoshop

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This effect... WOW... im jsut speechless! pretty easy also, this reminds me of a program from skyone... called Stargate, or a program like that

 

1. Make a new image, ours is 1000px x 1000px - with a white background

 

2. Fill the background with Dark Blue[ we used #141A23

 

3. Create a new layer, and grab the marquee tool

 

4. Make a rectangle reaching from the very left hand side of your page, to the very right hand side at approximatley 125px high

 

5. Fill this with white - Hold CTRL and press D to deselect

 

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6. click Filter > Distort > Ripple, and leave it at default settings - repeat this process another 3 times

 

7. click Edit > transform > Rotate 90 clockwise

 

8. click Filter > stylise > wind = Wind - From the left

 

 

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9. Do this 2 times in total - then the same again, but from the right

 

10. click Edit > transform > Rotate 90 counter clockwise

 

11. hold CTRL and press T

 

Slightly drag the middle right hand side, and left hand side boxes, about 2cm past the borders of the canvas - then hit enter

 

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12. Click filter > distort > Polar Coordinates - rectangular to polar

 

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13. Duplicate that layer, and hold CTRL and press T to transform it - make it into a shape a little smaller than the current one - Hit enter

 

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14. hold CTRL and press A - then Edit > Cut - then Edit > Paste

 

15. click the 2nd layer from the bottom on your layers palate, and do step 14 to that

 

16. select your background layer. Click Layer > New > Layer and call it Lens flair!

 

17. fill this layer Black

 

18. Click Filter > Render > Lens flair - and center it to the best you can

 

19. On the layers palate, set the blending options to colours dodge

 

20. hold CTRL and press U - and enter the following settings

 

 

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21. make a new layer called clouds, press D to reset your colours, and click Filter > Render > Clouds

 

22. click filter > distort > pinch - and give it 100% - then repeat this another 2 times

 

23. Click Filter > Render > Lighting Effects and give it the following settings :

 

 

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24. set the blending options on the layers palate to colour dodge. Then click Filter > Sketch > Chrome and give it defauly settings

 

25. click image > adjust > Brightness + contrast - and set the contrast to +50

 

Merge all the layers by clicking Layer > Merge visible

 

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Thankyou for trying it!

:):):) :)

 

 

Notice from m^e:
In future at least make sure that you mention which software you're using for creating these effects. Not really good to leave the others groping in the blind, isn't it ?
Edited by microscopic^earthling (see edit history)

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Wow, that's pretty sweet, man. I'd try it if I had decent editing software installed on my machine. But I'll just "ooh" and "aah" over yours. Good job.

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