Rantin Al

This quickie tutorial is for the poor neglected Mac-ites who feel left out from the Ribbon Thread and are excluded from using the PC only Sinedots plug-in.

This is a basic outline for a technique (Mac & PC) which uses Illustrator for the creation of a starter mesh.
The same can actually be done in Photoshop itself, I just happen to have a freebie from Sapphire-Innovations which speeds things up.

In Illustrator, run the Black Hole freebie to produce an offset concentric set of rings.

Stage 1. The start point.
Stage 2. Run the Pucker & Bloat filter.
Stage 3. Finally run the Zig-Zag filter.

Select > All and copy to the clipboard.
Jump to Photoshop and Create a New document.

Photoshop will set up the dimensions relative to the file on the clipboard. Just set the resolution to whatever you want, and the mode to RGB.

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Stage 4.Paste the Illustrator file into Photoshop.
(Make a background layer and fill with a colour of choice.)

Stage 5. Run the Polar Co-ordinates Filter

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Stage 6. Add a style of your choice.

Stage 6b. Hide the background layer, select All, Copy & Paste.
This creates a single layer with the style applied.

Stage 7. Apply the Wave filter. Use low settings.

Rick

Good stuff Al, that Stage seven clip look like an sylized oriental dragon

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Stage 7. Total Loopiness with duplicates of the style stages with Blending Modes.


There might be a similar plug-in here:

http://www.graphicxtras.com/products/aiplugin3.htm

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Black Hole Plug-in for Illustrator 10, OSX.

Erik

Beautiful, but I don't have Illustrator... :{

And the Ministery of Finance decided that I already spent twice as much on puters than was agreed...so no Illustrator for me.

Anyways: thanks for explaining this.

Must say I suspected vectors as the effect with PolarCoords would have meant a thickening of the lines on one end.


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Welles

Thanks, Rantin Al, I didn't know about Black Hole and always like to putter with plug-ins for PS and Illustrator.

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Erik, you might be able to conjure something with Photoshop paths?

Welles, check out that link for Graphicxtras, formerly Sapphire-Innovations.
Lots of goodies for Photoshop & Illustrator, cheap and lots of downloadable sample freebies.

Al.

Welles

Al,

While installing the Black Hole plug-in, I read the readme and realized that it was one of Andrews plugins. I've never bought his plug-ins yet but I've bought several collections of his Shapes for PS which were very clever. I hope he makes a good living from his creative offerings.