Tutorial: Swirly line textures
OK. So I decided to attmept my hand at making my own swirly textures. I looked at other tutorials but all the ones that I could find were designed with use of a "pen tool". Since I use Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 it doesn't work for me because as most of you know Elements doesn't have a pen tool. So I played around and this is what I came up with.
Step 1: Choose your image size. I choose an image 500px high and 300px wide. Then I filled it with black. You can choose whatever color you would like.
Step 2: Create a new layer.
Step 3: On this layer use the brush tool or the pencil tool. Choose a round, soft brush, on normal at 100 percent opacity. I chose a 13px size. Then choose your color. I chose a bright green. Find the middle of the image and make a straight line going down the image. To aid in making a straight line you can hold the shift key while pulling downward.
Step 4: Keeping that same layer selected that you just made your straight line on; go to filter>distort>shear:
You are going to choose the path you want your swirl to make by clicking on points on both sides of the main line like this:
then click ok.
This will give you this:
If you want more swirls then click in more places like this:
That will give you this:
Now you can call this finshed if you like. I like mine to have more of a glow. So what I do next is add an outer glow to it.
Step 5: Go into effects> outer glow> simple. You get this:
Now to brighten it up a bit I just duplicate that layer. You get this:
Then just merge all the layers or flatten the image and there you have it. A new swirl texture.
Step 1: Choose your image size. I choose an image 500px high and 300px wide. Then I filled it with black. You can choose whatever color you would like.
Step 2: Create a new layer.
Step 3: On this layer use the brush tool or the pencil tool. Choose a round, soft brush, on normal at 100 percent opacity. I chose a 13px size. Then choose your color. I chose a bright green. Find the middle of the image and make a straight line going down the image. To aid in making a straight line you can hold the shift key while pulling downward.
Step 4: Keeping that same layer selected that you just made your straight line on; go to filter>distort>shear:
You are going to choose the path you want your swirl to make by clicking on points on both sides of the main line like this:
then click ok.
This will give you this:
If you want more swirls then click in more places like this:
That will give you this:
Now you can call this finshed if you like. I like mine to have more of a glow. So what I do next is add an outer glow to it.
Step 5: Go into effects> outer glow> simple. You get this:
Now to brighten it up a bit I just duplicate that layer. You get this:
Then just merge all the layers or flatten the image and there you have it. A new swirl texture.