Abstract Lava Tutorial

[dragoneye]

1) Make a new document, anysize doesn't matter. Press CNTRL+D to reset your pallete colors.


2) Apply Filter>Render>Clouds.

3) Apply Filter>Artistic>Plastic Wrap with these settings:
highlight strenght 14
detail 1
smoothness3

4) Go to Image>Adjustments>Levels and apply these settings:
channel: RGB
input levels: o o.25 230
output levels 0 255

5) Filter>Distort>Polar Coordinates:
polar to rectangular

6) Right click the layer and go to Duplicate. Set the new top layer to blending
mode Screen.

7) Apply Filter>Artistic>Plastic Wrap again:
highlight strenght 14
detail 1
smoothness3

8) Then the colors:
a) Image > Mode > Grayscale
b.) Image > Mode > Indexed Color(flatten image)
c) Image > Mode > Color Table and choose black body from the drop menu and press ok
d) Image > Mode > RGB

It should look something like this


and then just crop the best part and ur DONE!! w00t

[dereko04011]

Nice tut, but give more screenshots please!

[Illegalx17]

very nice tut! mee like! tho if you added screenshots for every step it might be better ;-) ;-) lol jk, that would be a pain.

[robgasm]

lol de, great tut, especialy for your first

[Dutchmaniac]

cool tut man thats exactly what i needed. i think i might use it for my next hp

[BiL]

um looks bloody :huh:
Im gonna try to make the color blue or something but great tut i never thought of someting like that on PS

[conspired]

End result looks great! I'll have to try this later.

[c@pt@in]

great!this is very nice!i am going to read the tut u wrote and then i am gonna do a same as yours
you must have spent a lot of time to do this
i think that is one of the best 10 i have ever seen

[rek]

good stuff keep up the good work

[half-life man]

Sweet! h34r: