Start a new document, whatever size you want, this effect has no purpose other than a nice background for your wallpaper or something... so lets make it BIG!. I'm making mine : 1024x768
In this tutorial, you will take a digital photograph of a person or layout and create a sci-fi looking laser blast. You will learn how to create colors using layers and blending modes. This is an exciting tutorial that will WOW your friends!
7. Now we will make the blast bend a bit, this can be done in may ways, such as filter twirl, wave etc. I choosed twirl so go to filters -> distort -> twirl and drag the handle as in the image below.
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Now would be a good time to copy the blast layer if you want more then one blast ring. You can do this by pressing CTRL + J to duplicate the current layer, then click the eye icon next to the dup layer to turn it off for now.
Now, lets fill this with one of photoshop's integrated patterns. Go to Edit->Fill, and for Contents: Use: select Pattern. and then choose this pattern from your list:
2. Go to Filter>Pixelate>Color Halftone and now a dialog box will appear, look at the image below for the settings. And then go to Filter>Distort>Polar Coordinates and set it to Rectangular to Polar.