Vortex Star Tutorial

Vortex Star

[1] Open a new canvas, size 500x500 or any size you feel suitable (as long as its a square canvas)

[2] Select the gradient button on the tool box window.http://img61.echo.cx/img61/7483/gradientbutton8wi.jpg

[3] Select the bog standard back gradient into white (you can experiment with different gradients later as they give differing effects)
http://img61.echo.cx/img61/9412/grad...lection3sb.jpg

[4] Hold shift and draw a line one quarter of the canvas down to three quarters of the canvas. So it'll look something like this.

http://img61.echo.cx/img61/1678/gradientexample5bk.jpg

[5] Select Filter>Distort>Wave and copy these inputs (You can experiment with these inputs in the future) Make sure you input the maximum settings before the minimum.

http://img61.echo.cx/img61/458/wavefunction3yn.jpg

[6] Colourize the canvas, go to Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation (alternatively press Ctrl + U) to get this window up.

http://img61.echo.cx/img61/5072/colourize7qq.jpg

Select the colourize tick box and copy these settings or similar ones (again you can fiddle with these later to get diff colours)

[7] Go to Filter>Distort>Polar Co ordinates, and copy these settings

http://img61.echo.cx/img61/6029/polarcoordinates0pm.jpg

Press ok and you get a vortex effect.

[8] Now duplicate the layer you have been working with.... So you have a direct copy of the layer above the original.

[Do this by right clicking on the layer in your layer window, and select duplicate layer]

[9] Select the Top layer and go to Edit>Transform>Flip Horizontal

[10] Set the layer blending at overlay.

And wohay, you got a vortex star.....

http://img24.echo.cx/img24/7543/final9jb.jpg

I've written this tut with the assistance of others, but wording by me, so let me know if there's anything wrong :P enjoy.

i like it .would look good on a sig to.. nice tut m8 :)

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/1568/vortex0kq.jpg

this is an effort of mine ..little bit of playing about

i like the effect man nice tut keep them coming

Looks cool, i dont i have seen a tutorial like it so far so good work.

Looks cool, not sure where to use it for though. :)

It's a nice effect, but theres a tutorial that has the same result (it's not exactly the same, but the result does look similar).... heres the link:

http://www.entheosweb.com/photoshop/shiny_...urst_effect.asp

nice tut
I'll try it out later. :)

pretty sweet effect. Nice job.

wow that would be awesome to put onto a sig and then brushed over. THANKS

o for god sake my pic didnt work first time

liked it alot, played around with it, and gives a nice effect if u give different color to the two layers, maybe there even possible to add 3 layerS?

Nice tutorial, I'll be sure to try it out when I have time, and I'll post it here if I get the chance. Looks great.

Really cool effect, its really flexible too. Im gonna mess around with it a little bit. nice tut

wow this is so simple, yet very awesome. so many ways u can branch off of this. great job!

It looks better when you have it black going into white, not white into black. try inverting it. gj.

nice tut man. thanks for sharing :D

I think this would only loook cool as a button or a banner.

I like this effect! Nicely done. I'll try it with some other colors though.

Nice, great job.
I'll try this one later :)

Used in a banner

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...5/warcraft.jpg

With a bit extra of course :P

hey thats cool good tut

great work man

pretty good, might use that as part of a siggy some time

this is cool :) :)

awesome tut......i was just messin around and added a default twirl.....
my results are thus :
http://tinypic.com/nz0jsl.jpg

Despite how dead this thread is I thought I'd give Pliskin a thanks for the tutorial and an insight on the piece of work I did using his design as the main scheme.

http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/2...lawl1ek.th.jpg

If you lower the opacity down to about 44% on the top layer then it gives it a better effect i think as if it is rotating.

nice tut man , going to try it out

http://i43.tinypic.com/2hxyrf4.jpg

here is my attempt
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/5...ortexgreen.jpg

and this
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/3284/jsmurfsvortex.jpg

im liking this spiral one that i just seen near the end.. coooolll

Thanks for the tutorial, I can use this :)