This seems to be a new trend. I put a link on how to do it a couple of days ago and now several of you are having fun trying it out. So here's the link for everyone to have a go and twirl your photos!
@fearinnocent
Here it is applied to a classic landscape, so it's blue on top and dark on the bottom and left, not kaleidoscopic as others above. Startling at first, but it gets old and clichéd very quickly. :)
@northy Yes, that's a cool use of "twirl" distortion, not too much of course. The extra piece here is to add in a lot of radial blur (zoom not spin), which really wouldn't work for your use at all I think.
@northy Oh now how did you do that? I would love to have a go at surreal rather than full-blown abstract, which, as Frank @frankhymus suggests, I'm going to tire of relatively quickly.
as Frank says, just a small amount of twirl... somewhere between 50 and 100 i think... in this case tho, i did flip the scene... there were two images to start with... the human element was cut out of one, and placed in a flipped (and twirled version) of an empty version of the same scene from whence he came...
here's one i didn't flip... although i had to do some clean up work to keep the human element from appearing too distorted...
@shepherdmanswife I am struggling with the making of layer 1. I cannot find the buttons suggested apart from 'control' ad have pressed the subsequent letters. How do I make another layer? This is my biggest hurdle in photoshopping which I have never mastered and I am keen to do this. Would like to have got one done before I go on holiday tomorrow. If anyone can help that would be great.
@callymazoo just press the control key ctrl and press j whilst still holding ctrl down. This should give you layer 1 . Good luck. Maybe @taffy or @northy or @frankhymus can help if I am wrong. I'm not very techie!
A little twirling practice will not go amiss! Don't like it but at east I tried. I feel sorry for the cows who were grazing in the evening light. See photo for 16th August 2015
@callymazoo@northy@shepherdmanswife Thanks for the help. I'm a bit away from figuring out how layers works, but at least the tutorials from Lynda have me less put off by PS and how complicated it seems. Like Cally, I can't quite figure out how to get a photo part into a layer (e.g., cutting a figure out of one photo to put in another), or the link between layers and filters. But, this thread is helping me understand the power of how they work.
@taffy I've taught myself photoshop bit by bit... Generally I have an idea of what I want to do, and then look for YouTube tutorials that get me there... The hatter shot I'll be posting later today is a prime example... Anyway... My point is that I never set out to learn masks or layers or cutting things out... I learned those things as they became necessary to the image I was working on...
@taffy ps - also 365 has helped me a lot... If I can't figure out how to do something in Photoshop on my own, I would post a question here and inevitably someone would have the answer... You might also want to check back for the 365sandbox tutorials we did...
The tutorial was easy to follow and gave some interesting effects. I think learning and trying any editing technique is useful! We need to know how something works before using it in our own style. To get the most out of any editing filter or preset, it is to be applied with thought and adjustment for the final image. Learning about editing filters is the same as learning about our camera settings --- when you want to use manual or over-ride settings in the camera for creative purposes, you can. @shepherdmanswife thankyou for the thread! :)
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Here it is applied to a classic landscape, so it's blue on top and dark on the bottom and left, not kaleidoscopic as others above. Startling at first, but it gets old and clichéd very quickly. :)
I also did another one today:
Very fun and a bit addictive! Fun to see what you can create!
white daisy with yellow center
My Tui from the 11th August in my main album
How beautiful, thanks for posting the link, may have a try!
as Frank says, just a small amount of twirl... somewhere between 50 and 100 i think... in this case tho, i did flip the scene... there were two images to start with... the human element was cut out of one, and placed in a flipped (and twirled version) of an empty version of the same scene from whence he came...
here's one i didn't flip... although i had to do some clean up work to keep the human element from appearing too distorted...
A little twirling practice will not go amiss! Don't like it but at east I tried. I feel sorry for the cows who were grazing in the evening light. See photo for 16th August 2015
Original image:
To this...
The original
This one started out as a not very brilliant, slightly blurry shot of some blackberry flowers, it looks much better twirled