[spartaniac]

Hey everyone this is my first tutorial here in HF. So i hope you enjoy and learn something from it.

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create a new document of any resolution (mine's 1280x1024)
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select foreground color black and press alt + backspace
this fills the entire image black
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Go to Filter -> Render -> Lens flare
place it anywhere you want but for now i recommend to use mine

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Go to filter -> sketch -> Chrome set the detail to 15 and smoothness to 0
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Press Ctrl + U and tick colorize and choose whatever color you want.
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Duplicate the later 5 times
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select the topmost layer and press CTRL + SHIFT + X to bring up liquifiy
Select the twirl clockwise tool in liquify © and mess that shit
also, avoid hitting the edges.
Set the mode of the layer to lighten

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select the layer below the topmost layer and
Go to distort -> wave then apply the settings:
then set the mode again to lighten

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select 3rd from the top layer
go to distort -> twirl and set it to 360
then set the layer mode to lighten
Then select the layer below it and apply the same settings but this time instead of 360, make it -360 then change the layer mode to lighten
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select the second from the bottom layer and add a RIPPLE distortion. set it to 300% and change the layer mode to lighten.

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And there you have it :) Made in less than 5 mins.
hope you learned something here.
Here are some more examples:
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Added a new video Tut.

[Jumanji]

Very HQ tutorial, I plan on using this soon.
:)

[Coton Pker]

that's actually pretty cool...
good tutorial :) ++

[spartaniac]

Thanks hope you guys learn alot from it :)

[Bean Dip]

this is cool :D

now to make this 35 char so i can goto bed and save this for alteR!

[Volgare]

Looks like a nice tutorial. Thank you.

[#Rossy]

Great tutorial man, actually class!! Thanks alot

[atwqn]

Wow....just simply awesome creation.Thanks...

[JustAlpha]

Omg, I love this one. Thanks alot for your awsome tut.

["Rainy.]

Really nice, easy to follow tut. I'd +rep if I could, because I learned alot, thanks.

[AndrewTrack]

Great tutorial! I am just getting into graphics.

[Accomodate]

Beautiful share, thank you very much for posting this.

[ORANGE LIGHTNING]

Such an awesome effect and so much simpler than I thought. Your tutorial is really great, I'll definitely learn a lot from it. Thank you!

[DustinPwnzer]

Great Post, Helped me out lots! Very Simple And Down To The Point!

[GoLD.?]

Awesome effect. Keep posting this like this.