Cool Ice Background

[jamonathin]

** For some reason I cannot upload images so they're in a zip folder **

I Figured I'd post a tutorial since i have nothing better to do with my life, and no one's really done anything since . . feb? i think so, anyways . .

This is what the final result will look somewhat like: (final.jpg)

Now I used 200x200 just because it's easier to do for a tutorial, but use whatever size is good for your background.

Select the Gradient Tool (G) with these settings:
- Black to White
- Reflected Gradient (horzontal stripe)
- and Difference for blend mode

Now click all over your canvas. This is what mine looked like: (1.jpg)

Now go Filter -> Blur -> Radial Blur with:
- Amount: 100
- Zoom
- Best

Duplicate the layer. Now go Filter -> Filter -> Distort -> Polar Coordinates
[- Using Polar to Rectangle -]

Now you can set the blending mode of the new layer to either Lighten or Darken, whichever you think looks better.

Here's mine with lighten: (lighten.jpg)

Now what I did after that was I duplicated the first layer again, only I flipped the image horizontally so that I would have more 'beams' shooting out. [- using lighten -]. I did the same with the Vertical bars (which should be your 3rd layer)

Now you should have a pretty cool black and white image. You can either through a hue/saturation on the entire image, or go layer by layer and go to Enhance -> Color -> Hue/Saturation; that way. (Which i think is better)

Play around with the colors and enjoy your background

[[Gandalf]]

Nice and simple tutorial, good job .

Now, since I basically suck at art, I just edited the final image around to look a bit more like conventional ice (I don't have photoshop btw).

[jamonathin]

Oh yeah, lol that does look more like ice. Im not really "color coordinated"

[MihaiG]

nice i had a good effect by just adding an overlay layer... and giving that a light blueish colour

hers a a cool thing i amde based on ur thing

[MysticVegeta]

Isnt that just find-edges and then inversing the image?

[Mikleena]

Hi friend, i like your post, I will try this and attached the come out picture here. I hope that its will a nice article.
Thanks for sharing this.

[TheGuardian001]

Mikleena, Please stop posting on 4 year old threads. Necro-posting is frowned upon here.

[jannatul18]

Its really something cool I find as the background. Good one