| Tiled Plasma |
| Written by Zymic.com | |||
| Monday, 17 March 2008 13:02 | |||
Step 1Create a new 400x100 document with a transparent background (400x100 is my preferred size but anything around there will do.![]() Step 2Press D then X to reset the colours to black and white.Step 3Go Filter > Render > Clouds.Your image should now have a black and white cloud like effect. Make sure you get a good balance of black and white and make sure it all looks blended. If not, press Ctrl+F to repeat the filter. ![]() Step 4Go Filter>Sketch>Chrome. Enter in these settings:Detail: 10 Smoothness: 0 (NOTE: Adjust these settings to what you think looks like the best plasma effect.) ![]() Step 5Your image will now look somewhat like this:![]() Step 6Duplicate the layer by right clicking on the layer and selecting "Duplicate Layer" Press enter when the confirmation screen comes up.![]() Step 7Click on the duplicated layer and go Filter > Texture > Patchwork and enter these settings:Square Size: 1 Relief: 1 ![]() Step 8Press Ctrl+U to colour the layer. Click on colorize down in the right hand corner and enter these settings:Hue: 125 Saturation: 25 Lightness: 0 (Don't worry if it looks green for the moment, its meant to!) ![]() Step 9Then click on the arrow above the layer (Blending Options) and set the option to overlay.![]() Step 10And finally, click on the background layer and colorize it. Click on colorize again down in the right hand corner, but enter in these settings this time:Hue: 241 Saturation: 40 Lightness: +15 (This must be adjusted manually for the best effect.) ![]() Step 11And there you have it! An awesome plasmatic tiled effect! This tutorial is extremely customizable and you couild have stopped numerous times through out the tutorial and still got a great effect, so go and add some of your own effect (e.g text, borders, etc.) and you will end up with something like this:![]() |
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