I was bored

[hawkeye]

Just fooling around:

 

[Steve]

Nice.
Looks like a giant multi flavor lifesaver.

How about a quick run through of how you did this.

 

[hawkeye]

Use the pen tool to make a design. Then I set up an action to stroke and rotate the path 2°. Repeated the action multiple times. Then copied the result to a new layer and rotated it, did this several times to get the complete circle with random overlaps. Merged the layers, then layer styles, gradient fill, bevel emboss, drop shadow, and so forth to suit you.

Play around with it, you can get some interesting results.

 

[KraVeN]

those dents at the top and bottom make it a tad bit... unproportionate lol

 

[DesignMyBox]

Hey Hawkeye, thanks for the tutorial. Nice! Very much like the Vista wallpapers.
Say, does anyone remember that toy where you get circles and you put a pencil in and just rotate & it makes numerous shapes? I am sure you must have had it as kids...I just can't remember the name..

 

[Stric9]

A Spiralgraph?

 

[Dezigns Unlimited]

HAHA!! Dam, thats old school!! But yes that's what it was called if im not mistaken..

 

[sprucemagoo1]

Always looked better on wallpaper, lol.

 

[DesignMyBox]

A Spiralgraph?

A Spirograph! YES!
Thanx

 

[Ted Doubov]

I think it's sick.. trippy even. Donut ...or hubcap? lol

cool looking in any case

 

[Neo]

Very nice! I liked the first image

 

[alphaphoto]

A Spirograph! YES!
Thanx
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Yes, these reminded me of a Spirograph too! I used to play with this for hours when I was a kid.

 

[SicSid]

hmmmm that's great .... i never think of that. Thanks for the explanation.

 

[Asharak]

Cool, nice of you to give a tutorial as well. Keep it up.