Abstract Lava Tutorial

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
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...8/tutorial.jpg

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

Nice tut, but give more screenshots please!

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

lol de, great tut, especialy for your first

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

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

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

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

good stuff keep up the good work :D

Sweet! :ph34r: