x900mhz

Just wondering if anyone can give me ideas how to recreate this effect?

jonbalza

Here's the steps I took to get close, after these, it's just shrinking it down, and copying the effect to the left farther and farther.

- Start with square canvas, about 1000 px wide. Fill the Background layer with black.
- Across the middle of the page, draw a blue horizontal line thats about 10 pixels wide.
- Duplicate that layer, set it's blending mode to screen, and give it a gaussian blur of about 5 px.
- Duplicate that new layer, and gaussian blur it again, this time around 30px.
- Duplicate it one more time, This time blurring it around 150px. Now you should have 4 layers, with the top 3 set to a blending mode of "screen."
- Flatten that image, and run "Filter-Distort-Wave" on it. Set the number of generators to be around 100, and set the wavelength and amplitude to have minimums of 1. I scaled my example vertically by 50%. Set the rest of the options to your taste.

That should give you what I have posted here, from there you can just shrink it down more, copy it over to the side, to get a nice long set of the waves.

Welles

Nice, jonbalza. Nice to have you over here. I've long admired your work over at PST. [righton]

jonbalza

Thanks, Welles. I appreciate the compliment.

I visit here often. I recently decided the site is just too nice to not post - so I'm going to try to post more than 3 times a year.

NiKKi

Just to make sure i was reading this right. Do you flatten the image first before you duplicate the layer? or are you just duplicating the shape layer?

Also, after you gaussian blur the first layer to 5 pix and you are getting ready to copy 'that' layer... which layer are you refering to? the layer that was alraedy blurred, or the original unblurred layer?

Thanks

jonbalza

Before you start duplicating the layers, you should have only one layer (the "Background" one) so there should be no need to flatten it at that point.

At the point in the tutorial where I say to flatten the image, you should have 4 layers. This is after you've done all the duplicating and blurring.

Either, actually. You'll get slightly different looks depending on which one you do, but the results will be close. Personally, I'd go with duplicating the blurred layer.

I hope that wasn't too confusing. [innocent]

x900mhz

Hey Jon,

your little tutorial was perfect from the getgo. After following it, I squished it a bit, duplicated the whole thing and then pasted it beside each other to get this final result.

Thanks.

I have added to differnt results.

jonbalza

Cool. Glad you got it working, your results look great.

NiKKi

just thought i would throw up a signnature that i made for a guy over at clubrsx.com using this method