Abstract Cyclone Tutorial

btw, this is my first tutorial, but i think you will be pleased with the results :)

1. Open a new document, black background and white foreground.
For this we'll be using a 500x500 sized document.

2. Filter > Render > Clouds
Filter > Render > Different Clouds

3. Control-I (Image > Adjustments > Invert);
Control-L (Image > Adjustments > Levels); set the second number (default 1.0) to '.10'.
http://img141.exs.cx/img141/9513/15py.th.png

4. Control-B (Image > Adjustments > Color Balance);
Set the numbers (left to right) as: 0, 40, 100 (good blue color).
http://img234.exs.cx/img234/4168/20of.th.png

5. Filter > Blur > Radical Blur (Method: Zoom; Quality: Best; Amount: 21);
Click (in the blur box) the top-left corner, so thats the 'center' of the blur...
http://img161.exs.cx/img161/6737/33zz.th.png

6. Filter > Render > Lens Flare (Top-Left corner, 136% amount, 105mm Prime).


** From here on we'll be altering it into a Vortex **
7. Right-click your layer > Duplicate Layer;
set mode to 'Lighten'http://img201.exs.cx/img201/3775/40hh.th.png
, then control-E
(Layer > Merge-Down) to merge the layers.

8. Right-click your layer > Duplicate Layer;
Set mode to 'Lighten', then Filter > Disort > Twirl (amount: 300).
http://img234.exs.cx/img234/5109/59kl.th.png
Control-E (Layer > Merge-Down) to merge the layers.

9. Repeat step 8, except set twirl amount to -600.
http://img240.exs.cx/img240/786/69ld.th.png

10. Control-B (Image > Adjustment > Color Balance)
and set the numbers (left-to-right) as: 0, 40, 100.

We now got an awesome vortex of lightning :D
http://img161.exs.cx/img161/223/vortex8ss.png

also you can play with the color levels before you merge layers to get something like this:
http://img40.exs.cx/img40/9235/vortex27tk.png

nice, good work, mayne, i like that first pic though :D

That is one sweet toturial mate!, I really like the result too :P good work

B) Damn that is nice... I'll have to see if Taco will upload that to a few sites.

Very nice tut man.
end result looks excellent.

My lord thats a sexy effect - I love it mate!! For future tutorials, I suggest you use ImgHst, as ImageShacks have servers are rather slow over the past few weeks.

Great tutorial, I LOVE the effect. To help out noobies, I suggest you add a few more images, but I believe you get the overall effect across.

This would rank in my top 3 tutorials, very nice. Is it ok if I submit this one?

Nice, probably one of the best on here. Good job!

go ahead and submit, but my friend already got it on good-tutorials so they prolly don't want it again

btw, i thought about the newbs today, and i'll try and get some pics of the tools, i was just a little pressed on time when i first posted...
B)

cool tutorial man

I'm totally new to Photoshop, only been using it for about 3 days, and I got totally different results...I've tried 4 times already and it keeps turning out the same...would it be possible for you to supply some pictures in the tutorial to help me out a little?