Hi all, this tutorial is ment for people who have been into photoshop for a few months and want to get some cool backgrounds, so for those of you who are experts I dont recommend picking this tutorial apart, because I made it for beginners.
Ok! Lets start off with opening a document, it can be any size, but I used 500X500.
Step 1: Make sure your foreground and background colors and black and white, doesnt matter in what order though. Then go to filter>render>clouds and you should get someting like this, but it wont be exactly like it:
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/3...cewarp14ks.jpg
Step 2: Go to filter>pixelate>mezzotint and use the setting medium strokes and you should get something like this, but remember it wont be exactly the same:
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/5...cewarp24ju.jpg
Step 3: Go to filter>blur>radial blur and use the settings:
Ammount: 100
Blur method: Zoom
Quality: Best
And you should get something like this, but it still wont be exactly the same:
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/9...cewarp31dv.jpg
Step 4: Now to color this thing, for a cool blue warp effect, press ctrl+u and use the settings:
Hue: 191
Saturation: 25
Lightness: 0
You can mess around with those settings but for the ones I put up there you should get something like this, but remember it will not look exactly the same:
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/8...cewarp47ev.jpg
Step 5 (must have a high verson of Photoshop to do this step): This might only work if you have a high verson of Photoshop, I for one am using CS2, also this step doesnt do much, it just makes the effect look smoother. Go to filter>noise>reduce noise and use the settings:
Strenth: 100%
Preserve details: 0%
Reduce color noise: 100%
Sharpen details: 0%
Remove JPEG artifact: Not checked.
And you should get something like this, but not exactly the same:
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/1...cewarp54pt.jpg
And there you have it! A slick space warp effect.
