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Psychedelic Wireframe Background

Filed under: Designing — Fiery Darts @ 1:04 am

Psychedelic Wireframe Background
Start by creating a new file. Create a vertical line using line tool.
Duplicate it. Press Ctrl+T . Drag the anchor point to the bottom of the line.
Rotate it 15° cw.
Press Ctrl+J and Shift Ctrl+T to create a circular pattern of lines.
Merge all line layers.
Duplicate the merge layer and rotate it slightly.
Scale it down.
Change background to black. Select line layer and press Ctrl+I to inverse the colors. Press Ctrl+t. Right click and select warp.
Adjust the nodes to get the following shape.
Press Ctrl+U and adjust hue/saturation as shown.
From filter menu select distort>>polar coordinates.
Apply settings as shown.
Merge this layer with the background. Dupliacte it and flip it vertically.
Chnage the layer mode to exclusion.
Merge both layers. Duplicate it and rotate 90° cw.
Chnage the layer mode to linear dodge.
Merge this layers. Dupliacte it and scale up.
Change the layer mode to difference.
Press Ctrl+U and hue/saturation as shown.
Dupliacte the main layer it and scale it down..
Change the layer mode to difference.
Create a new layer above all layers apply gradient as shown.
Change the layer mode to color.
Duplicate the gradient layer and change the layer mode to color burn.
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5 Comments »

  1. What do i do if i don’t have the warp tool on my Photoshop?

    Sweet tutorial by the way

    Comment by HDP — April 3, 2006 @ 9:43 am

  2. yeah very sweet tut ;) i think you have a problem if warp tool isn’t on your photoshop HDP ;)

    Comment by darkslider — April 4, 2006 @ 4:46 am

  3. should be able to recreate the warp effect by making a selection around the firework looking thing with a larger portion of the selection toward the bottom and then using spherize.

    Comment by bleh bleh — April 4, 2006 @ 2:55 pm

  4. should be able to recreate the warp effect by making a selection around the firework looking thing with a larger portion of the selection toward the bottom and then using spherize.

    Comment by wtf — April 4, 2006 @ 2:56 pm

  5. well it looks alot like the pixels are to large to be a real nice work.. but other then that its a nice tut

    Comment by amog — April 24, 2006 @ 4:55 am

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