This effect... WOW... im jsut speechless! pretty easy also, this reminds me of a program from skyone... called Stargate, or a program like that

1. Make a new image, ours is 1000px x 1000px - with a white background

2. Fill the background with Dark Blue[ we used #141A23

3. Create a new layer, and grab the marquee tool

4. Make a rectangle reaching from the very left hand side of your page, to the very right hand side at approximatley 125px high

5. Fill this with white - Hold CTRL and press D to deselect



6. click Filter > Distort > Ripple, and leave it at default settings - repeat this process another 3 times

7. click Edit > transform > Rotate 90 clockwise

8. click Filter > stylise > wind = Wind - From the left





9. Do this 2 times in total - then the same again, but from the right

10. click Edit > transform > Rotate 90 counter clockwise

11. hold CTRL and press T

Slightly drag the middle right hand side, and left hand side boxes, about 2cm past the borders of the canvas - then hit enter



12. Click filter > distort > Polar Coordinates - rectangular to polar



13. Duplicate that layer, and hold CTRL and press T to transform it - make it into a shape a little smaller than the current one - Hit enter



14. hold CTRL and press A - then Edit > Cut - then Edit > Paste

15. click the 2nd layer from the bottom on your layers palate, and do step 14 to that

16. select your background layer. Click Layer > New > Layer and call it Lens flair!

17. fill this layer Black

18. Click Filter > Render > Lens flair - and center it to the best you can

19. On the layers palate, set the blending options to colours dodge

20. hold CTRL and press U - and enter the following settings






21. make a new layer called clouds, press D to reset your colours, and click Filter > Render > Clouds

22. click filter > distort > pinch - and give it 100% - then repeat this another 2 times

23. Click Filter > Render > Lighting Effects and give it the following settings :




24. set the blending options on the layers palate to colour dodge. Then click Filter > Sketch > Chrome and give it defauly settings

25. click image > adjust > Brightness + contrast - and set the contrast to +50

Merge all the layers by clicking Layer > Merge visible



Thankyou for trying it!





This post has been edited by microscopic^earthling: Nov 1 2005, 06:24 AM

Wow, that's pretty sweet, man. I'd try it if I had decent editing software installed on my machine. But I'll just "ooh" and "aah" over yours. Good job.