03 February 2012

Tutorial: Glowing floral

In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to make this floral effect.




Open a Photoshop document. Set the size to 1800*1600.
Create a new layer and open the Gradient editor. Set the colors to #ffffff and #91dbf1. Select the radial gradient and create a small circle, just like this:


Now open the stock.psd file and click on the thumbnail on the layer panel while holding Ctrl to select it. ( http://www.2shared.com/photo/2Jvy9Rn_/stock.html )
Move it to the picture. Position it like this:


Apply the outer glow on that layer. Set the blend mode to normal, leave the opacity at 75%. Set the spread at 3 and size at 10.


Create a new layer and open the Brush properties. Select the brush called Fuzzball (It's default). Set the size at 10 and the spacing at 71%. The rest is like this.


Follow the thicker lines of the stock and create a few U-styled going out of the white hole. Add an Outer glow effect, just change the opacity to 41%, leave everything else as it was.


Create a new layer, set the colors to white and black and create a radial gradient like this.


Set the blend mode to Overlay.


Go to Layer> New Adjustments Layer> Gradient map. Press OK and set the colors to black and white. Change the opacity to Multiply.


Create a new layer and download this brush. http://www.brusheezy.com/brushes/1283-Bubble-Brushes-for-Photoshop
Import it and pick the one called bubble6. Open the brush properties and set the values:
Make the bubbles seem like they're coming out of the white hole.


Create a new layer and download this brush. http://falln-stock.deviantart.com/art/Smoke-Brushes-Set-1-92730901
Just click once, once again from the hole.
Create a new layer and apply the image. (Image>Apply Image)
Set the blend mode to overlay.


Create another new layer and apply the image once more. Go to Filter>Distort>Wave and hit randomize. Apply the effect. Change the blend mode to overlay and lower the opacity to 73%.


And the final step is to go to the background layer and apply the water paper effect. (Filter>Sketch>Water Paper). Set the values like this: fiber length: 33, brightness: 45 and contrast: 80.


And that's it. Now you know how to make a cool floral effect in a couple of minutes! :)
If you have any questions, post them in the comments.


4 comments:

  1. Wow, looks amazing, I'll try this sometime :)

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  2. looks good, i can see me returning many times for tips. nicely done. also following.

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  3. That looks so awesome, please keep up the good work! I'm going to practice this one right now.

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  4. That looks nice. Seems like you really know your way around PhotoShop.

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