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Using the pixel stretch technique and polar coordinates, you can create interesting pixel swirls. This neat little effect that can be used with any picture & in any project, and it only takes a few quick steps!
7. This is what I ended up with! It looks strange but it's just a nice colourful swirl and can be used for signatures, headers, banners, ads, etc�
Brush King is a collection of high quality Photoshop Brushes. You can download them for free and you can use them for your website design or other graphic creations.
Brush King is a collection of high quality Photoshop Brushes. You can download them for free and you can use them for your website design or other graphic creations.
Brush King is a collection of high quality Photoshop Brushes. You can download them for free and you can use them for your website design or other graphic creations.
Brush King is a collection of high quality Photoshop Brushes. You can download them for free and you can use them for your website design or other graphic creations.
Great tutorials Fabio - as always. Now I need to download Illustrator. I love how you take something as beautiful as the swirls you created and figure out how to make it 100 times better by adding it in with a real photo.
Here's a collection of 18 swirly curly photoshop brushes. As always they are free for personal use. If however, you would like to use them for commercial purposes please be good enough to let me know and give me a donation for all of my hard hours of toil! Also, if you would just like to say thanks a donation to the continuation of my work would be gladly accepted. Thank you and I hope that you enjoy my new brush set. Oh yes� and if you use them for web work then please credit: http://www.spiralpixel.com.
Since you've already made the first ring, I will jump from here to tell you that the image on the left was made by duplicating the ring layer several times and simply varying it by scaling, rotating, adding a few filters (like blurs) and changing the opacities of each duplicate. Eventually this is how it will end up. When you're done, simply merge all the ring layers.
STEP 5: Duplicate the layer. Select the new layer and press Ctrl + U (Hue/Saturation). Check the Colorize option and use these settings to change te color of the new swirl:
First, you'll have to draw the basic outline of what you want your magic to look like. Mine is all swirly like. Create a new layer above your black background and , using a hard edged brush, draw your pattern in a grey colour.
If you plan on making a website from the results of this tutorial, you'll need to make sure the graphics end in a logical way at the edge of the image (i.e. they don't just stop suddenly.) One way to achieve this is to make this white area end before the edge of the window. Another method is to make the image 1600 pixels wide, so you can set it as the background of a 100%-wide table in your web editor.
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Now grab a free swirly brush set such as this one. Create a new layer above your hand layer called 'swirls'. Then use various swirly brushes from your set to brush over your hand. I used a purple brush color just to highlight where I'd placed my brush strokes. Try to use as many of the brushes as possible, varying size and positioning to create a random mess of swirls covering most of the hand. Don't worry about going over the edges of your hand either, we'll deal with that in the next step.
Hit the D key on your keyboard to reset your Color Boxes to its default white and black and then hit the X key to invert the colors locations. Now your Foreground Color should be set to #FFFFFF White and Background Color is set to #000000 Black. Press Ctrl + Backspace to fill the canvas with black. Create a New Layer by going through Layer>New>Layer. Grab the Brush Tool from the Tool Panel on the left to get started with drawing our flame swirls. Right click anywhere on the canvas to open up the Brush Options panel. Click on the arrow that is on the top right corner of the panel and select Assorted Brushes, and then click on the 48px Crosshatch brush type as shown in the screenshot below.
 1. Start with a new document in Illustrator.
Final result.
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We want to stretch the 1 pixel wide area so go to Edit > Transform > Scale. You should see the following:
Step 1: Let's start.
Step 1: Create a new document. Now press "D" on your keyboard to reset the foreground and background colors to black and white. Make sure your background is BLACK.
