What? You don't do garbage? 3 Rs. Reuse, recycle and remember to take the garbage
out. The most important one. Today's video is a fun one to bring your
moods up and I know the last video was a little bit scary the title. Sorry about
that but today we're gonna be doing something
very different. Few days ago a friend of mine Ben, Hi Ben,
reminded me this Photoshop technique called abstract twirl. And you can create
it from beautiful photos, from average photos, from ugly photos and even from
garbage photos. Let me show you how. I'm going to open up the photo of a garbage.
It's really not about the photo we are going to use. It's about the colors and
pattern in the photos because you will drag those colors, you will twirl those
colors to create the abstract. And if you do stock you can upload the best ones to
your stock agencies because they can be sold as digital backgrounds. Here is what
I did. You could just use a single photo to create a simple result but I'm going
to go with more dramatic results, so I'm going to multiply the image and create
colorful even pattern. And quick tip, from what I'm seeing the result looks better
if you photograph an object on a little bit darker background. To multiply the
image, the way I do it, I simply copy the whole image by
pressing ctrl+C keyboard. I have to make the canvas bigger so I'll go to image,
canvas, move the image to the top left corner, double the size and press ok. Now
your canvas is bigger. Press ctrl+V to paste the image three
more times. Move images around. Now I'm going to see if I like the way the
colors are spread and perhaps turn around some of them by flipping the
layers horizontally or vertically.
Once I'm happy, flatten all layers to create one base image. Depending on the
computer you use, you might want to check the size of the photo because once you
gonna be processing all those filters, it might take forever. So for me, I'm
actually going to resize a little bit down. I'm gonna use 2,000 pixels
in width. I'm going to convert the base layer into smart object.
What is smart object? Smart object preserves an images source content with
all its original characteristics enabling you to perform non-destructive
editing to the layer..... tongue twister. Now we are going to destroy the photo. Go to
filter, pixelate, Mezzoting, choose medium lines and now you see more the colors
ou are going to work with. Next go to filter, blur, radial blur, select maximum
100 and change the effect to zoom. I'm also going to choose best quality. Click
OK and congratulations now you destroyed your photo and now you know the reason
why you can choose any photo to work with. It is all about the pattern. You
want those lines very smooth so you might want to run the effect few more
times. I will do it two more times so go to filter, blur, radial blur, okay and
again.
Now the lines look super smooth and blended and now is the fun part. It's
time to twirl them. So what happens, you will twirl it one way and then you twirl
it the other way and you just have to blend those two layers together by
choosing a blending mode you actually like the most. That's it. Go to filter,
distort and twirl and let's select minus 100.
Now we're gonna twirl it to the left like counter clockwise. Down the road you can
experiment with different numbers, see how much actually you want to twist, how much
you want to twirl... so - 20, - 50, - 80 anything goes.
The first twirl I'll leave on - 100. Now press here to select blending. Each
blending mode will give you a different effect.
I usually go through them all and find which one I like the most. In this case
let's select lighten and at this point if you're someone who likes very simple
abstract, you can just play with it further with the colors and all that in
Photoshop later and you can just save it, you are done. But for me I'll keep
going. And I'm going to twirl it again in the
opposite direction and use blending mode I like and twirl again and use blending
mode and I just continue, keep going until I like the result I see.
Once I'm done, I'll just save it. Go to Lightroom because I prefer to go to
Lightroom and just play with the colors. Bring the contrast up, maybe change the
colors a little bit, play with the levels. I just do a whole bunch of different
effects. I literally just play with a Lightroom and see what comes out because
with this you can't really plan ahead. You have no idea what will turn out and
how it will turn out. Well I hope you liked today's video. Maybe a little bit
different, a little bit out of comfort zone. Just to play around as a kid
again but with the computer this time. If you
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comment section below and I'll see you my friends in the next video ... Cau... Ahoj...