Smoke & mirrors

Finally learned how to do this in Photoshop...
Abstract August

[Sarah]

Wonderful. Great abstract

[Clare Gadsby]

very cool. may i ask how you did it?

[Mel]

@pistache My base image was of some incense smoke, which I cleaned up a bit in Lightroom, flipped on its side and added some colour with Nik Color efex pro, and after that I used this tutorial - http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/mirror-image-effect-with-photoshop/

[Catherine Otley]

Wonderful image and colours and the mirroring really makes it!

[Clare Gadsby]

thank you so much mel for all that info. i very much look forward to having a go myself :)

[Inga Johansson]

This is wow :) I can see a face of a man with some kind of helmet.

[Wendy Bowden]

that's wicked, fabulous symmetry