Summary: Using Photoshop twirl distortion filter. Learn how create and render a space scene in this free computer graphics tutorial from a Photoshop professional.
Robert Segundo has been an artist since he could hold a pencil. In his 10 years in graphic design, he has worked on advertising projects with costs ranging in millions of dollars. He...read more
"So, we've started with our rings. Let's go ahead and finish up with them. As we can see here, we've rendered some clouds in there, so let's go ahead and "Filter." Let's distort these-let's go ahead and put "Twirl" in there. Here we go. Let's crank that up. Let's crank it up all the way. There we go. Massive swirl in there. Hmm. You know what? I don't like that. Let's do that again. Let's Control-Z. Let's "Filter, Distort." Let's do "Twirl" again. There we go. See, well, I guess that's all the options we really have, and it's all the way up. So, that's fine. We'll just deal with it like that. So now what we're going to do is, we're going to do another selection in here. Let's actually do "Select, Modify, Contract" our selection. And let's contract it by, let's see, we've got thirty pixels there. That should do it. Nah. Let's take it in a little bit more. Let's do "Select, Modify, Contract." Let's do it by sixty pixels. There we go. That's a little bit better. Now what we're going to do is, we're going to take our erase brush at a hundred percent. And, actually, let's do a "Select." Let's feather this layer. "Modify." We'll feather it by about-ten pixels sounds good. There we go. Now let's just start erasing. And, as you can see, it'll feather our little outside edge there, which is fine with us, and create what we're looking for. Alright. We'll pause there, and we'll pick it up in the next part."
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