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2. Now edit your image a bit with the Brightness/Contrast tool (Image, Adjustments, Brightness/Contrast) and play a bit with the settings, everyone got his own taste. 3. Sharpen the picture (Filter, Sharpen). You can use here the easy 'sharpen' setting, or to choose your own with 'Unsharp mask' or 'Smart Sharpen' in CS2. 4. Duplicate the image, blur it (filter, blur, gaussian blur) and change the blendmode to softlight/overlay to get some better colors. 5. Now flatten the image (Layer, Flatten Image). So now we got a background and we can start with the twirls.
5. Now you duplicate the layer (right click on the layer in the layers pallette -> Duplicate Layer) and Filter -> Distort -> Twirl. Set angle to 400 and press ok.
You can play around with this until you're happy, 999 just happened to look the best for my twirl. Play about and see what kind of effect you can come up with.
5. Then merge the layers, to do that press Ctrl+E, then go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and set the Radius to 3 pixels. Then go to Filter>Distort>Twirl and set the Angle to -999%. And that's it you are done! This is what I came up with.
12. This is the affect we are looking for. Now we are going to add color. Blue often look nice. Select the first Twirled layer. Press CTRL-U. Select Colorize Set Hue: 196, Saturation: 50.