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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 521258" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p><strong><em>January 2</em></strong></p><p></p><p>I suffer from occasional and severe bouts of insomnia. Almost never is it an issue with falling asleep, but it's an issue with getting back to sleep after waking up. When I know it'll be hours in bed before I get back to sleep I've taken to heading downstairs so I don't toss around and piss off the Mrs. I've also taken to making sure that I leave my laptop and a set of headphones in the family room so I can at least be entertained in my waking moments. Rather than just Netflixing the night away, I've recently decided to take those opportunities to try and learn something, so I dig into a set of bookmarks called "Whenever I Get To It" and find something I've put off for later.</p><p></p><p>This night I dug into a tutorial about creating <strong><em>Twirl</em></strong> images in Photoshop. I'd seen some in Photoshop groups and also on some photography challenge sites I participate in. I thought they were cool, even if I consider them more "digital art" than "photographs", but I wondered if the techniques used could be applied to photo processing. Answer? Not really. But that doesn't mean that I couldn't make a small chunk of change selling metal prints of these late in the day at some art show somewhere where entertainment and adult beverages are of equal importance. LOL </p><p></p><p>The basis of it is transforming an "ordinary photograph" in to a twisted set of colors and lines. If you're really interested, the tutorial I followed can be <a href="https://www.slrlounge.com/twirls-hot-new-photoshop-trend/" target="_blank">found here</a>. </p><p></p><p>Behold, the ordinary photograph: </p><p>[ATTACH=full]193084[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>And what I was able to cull from it in about 10 minutes:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]193083[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>If you follow the basic steps of the tutorial with my original photograph you'll get something different. I didn't like the dark-heavy top of my result after the basic steps so I took the top layer in the two layer stack and rotated it 180 degrees (flipping it horizontally would have ruined the bi-directional twisting necessary for this effect). From there, I used Detail Extraction in Color Efex 4 and Camera Raw Filter to boost Clarity and to apply a little bit of Lens Distortion correction to pull the center out a bit.</p><p></p><p>I decided to turn the steps into a Photoshop Action so I don't have to do it manually every time. I changed the steps somewhat so that I use a Layer 0 instead of a background so I can make the two combined layers Smart Objects and adjust the amount of <em>Twirl</em> in the filter after the fact. PM me if you're interested in the Action, but truth is, I just use the defaults in the tutorial (3 steps of Radial Blue and then two layers of Twist), so you can create your own following the steps.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Edit to add that the tutorial steps for this will work with Photoshop Elements as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 521258, member: 9240"] [B][I]January 2[/I][/B] I suffer from occasional and severe bouts of insomnia. Almost never is it an issue with falling asleep, but it's an issue with getting back to sleep after waking up. When I know it'll be hours in bed before I get back to sleep I've taken to heading downstairs so I don't toss around and piss off the Mrs. I've also taken to making sure that I leave my laptop and a set of headphones in the family room so I can at least be entertained in my waking moments. Rather than just Netflixing the night away, I've recently decided to take those opportunities to try and learn something, so I dig into a set of bookmarks called "Whenever I Get To It" and find something I've put off for later. This night I dug into a tutorial about creating [B][I]Twirl[/I][/B] images in Photoshop. I'd seen some in Photoshop groups and also on some photography challenge sites I participate in. I thought they were cool, even if I consider them more "digital art" than "photographs", but I wondered if the techniques used could be applied to photo processing. Answer? Not really. But that doesn't mean that I couldn't make a small chunk of change selling metal prints of these late in the day at some art show somewhere where entertainment and adult beverages are of equal importance. LOL The basis of it is transforming an "ordinary photograph" in to a twisted set of colors and lines. If you're really interested, the tutorial I followed can be [URL="https://www.slrlounge.com/twirls-hot-new-photoshop-trend/"]found here[/URL]. Behold, the ordinary photograph: [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]193084._xfImport[/ATTACH] And what I was able to cull from it in about 10 minutes: [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]193083._xfImport[/ATTACH] If you follow the basic steps of the tutorial with my original photograph you'll get something different. I didn't like the dark-heavy top of my result after the basic steps so I took the top layer in the two layer stack and rotated it 180 degrees (flipping it horizontally would have ruined the bi-directional twisting necessary for this effect). From there, I used Detail Extraction in Color Efex 4 and Camera Raw Filter to boost Clarity and to apply a little bit of Lens Distortion correction to pull the center out a bit. I decided to turn the steps into a Photoshop Action so I don't have to do it manually every time. I changed the steps somewhat so that I use a Layer 0 instead of a background so I can make the two combined layers Smart Objects and adjust the amount of [I]Twirl[/I] in the filter after the fact. PM me if you're interested in the Action, but truth is, I just use the defaults in the tutorial (3 steps of Radial Blue and then two layers of Twist), so you can create your own following the steps. Edit to add that the tutorial steps for this will work with Photoshop Elements as well. [/QUOTE]
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