Forum: Photoshop


Subject: how can you create a vortex in photoshop ?

artikul8er opened this issue on Jun 27, 2002 ยท 5 posts


artikul8er posted Thu, 27 June 2002 at 4:23 PM

I recently spoke to cyberartist about the same topic , but i wanna know how or can you create a vortex in photoshop ? Any advice ?


retrocity posted Thu, 27 June 2002 at 4:40 PM

Do you mean from a top view?? Looking down into it? that's easy side or 3/4 view may be a little trickier... let me know which view, :) retrocity


Axe555 posted Thu, 27 June 2002 at 8:08 PM

Choose your forground/background colors. Filter-Render-Clouds Filter-Distort-Twirl to whatever angle looks good. Make an eliptical selection from the center of the twirl and feather to taste. Invert selection, delete, and deselect. Filter-Distort-Shear to whatever is appropriate for your needs. Add layer mask and apply black/white gradient from one edge of the vortex to the other. That's basically how the vortex part of this image was done. I can't take credit for it though. This is from the book Photoshop 6 Effects Magic and this particular section was written by Rhoda Grossman. Anyway, I hope it gives you some ideas. Rich

Axe555 posted Thu, 27 June 2002 at 8:49 PM

Hmm...maybe I should clarify that. I created the image by following the tutorial in the book, so the idea isn't mine originally.


artikul8er posted Mon, 01 July 2002 at 3:14 PM

Thanks for yout input axe555 !!