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Refractment Tutorial

I received so many great tuto­ri­als (espe­cially Good-Tutorials.com), it’s about time I start to re-pay my debt. Here is a tuto­r­ial for an abstract “refract” effect.

1) Open a new image

2) Press “d” to reset col­ors, and go to Fil­ter — Ren­der — Clouds

3) Fil­ter — Ren­der — Fibers. I used the fol­low­ing set­tings (you can change the ran­dom­iza­tion if you desire):

Then you get:

4) Fil­ter — Dis­tort — Polar Coordinates

5) Fil­ter — Sharpen — Sharpen

6) Fil­ter — Dis­tort — Ripple

7) Change the color and sat­u­ra­tion: Image — Adjust­ments — Hue/Saturation (Ctrl — U)

8) I decide to add more vari­ance, so I went to Image — Adjust­ments — Lev­els (Ctrl — L) and used the fol­low­ing settings:

Voila! If you want, you can see a larger image.