Making concentric patterns etc

[Erik]

1/open a square doc 400x400 (to get a circle), white, RGB, foreground colour is black, background is white
2/Filter>Sketch>Halftone Pattern Size 8 Contrast 5 Pattern type: line
3/use levels to make the lines thinner
4/Filter>Distort>Spherize 100% Vertical only
5/Filter>Distort>Polar Coordinates rectangular to polar
6/doubleclick on icon in layers palette to make it a layer
7/add a new layer below and fill with clouds
8/colorize (Hue/Sat filter) the clouds
9/select circles layer, Select>ColorRange, Shadows and OK. Feather one or two pixels. and Delete the black
10/Set circles layer to Vivid Light BlendMode
11/Layer styles. Add Inner glow (I chose a dark blue), Inner Shadow and Some Satin.
12/Use PlasticWrap. Highlight 20, Detail and Smoothness 6 This adds highlights that follow the circles.

Play a bit, and tweak some settings...

Enjoy!

By the way: this is also an easy method to create waves and even woves textures. We'll tackle those later...[/i]

[Erik]

Number Two:

1/Open a new doc as above
2/Halftone Pattern as above
3/Plasticwrap filter all at max
4/Polar Coordinates as above
5/Colorize

[Erik]

Number Three:

1/New doc as above
2/Lines as above but apply Wave filter to them
3/Copy the background twice
4/Edit>Rotate 90? on the middle layer
5/Set top and middle layer to lighten (very logical...)
6/Flatten
7/Apply PlasticWrap filter 20/8/5
8/Colorize

[Erik]

As a variation on Number three you can apply the plastic wrap only to the top layes and colorize the top and middle layers individually:

[wbiss]

B7 Erik! Look forward to experimenting once again!
Thanks a bunch for sharing these techniques!

[dv8_fx]

Great technique, mon ami. [stuned] These will come in handy for a couple of projects I have to do.

Thanks for sharing.

vee

[lindaw]

Very cool Erik! Going to give it a go right now!

[sfm]

hey no fair....... I didn't even see this post/thread till now [doh]

they look way cool Erik and I will post my results when do them thanks mate
sfm

[AppleCider]

Very cool, Erik! I especially like that 2nd one with the Plastic Wrap...a filter I always forget about. Off to experiment! [slick]