Okay, in this tutorial i am going to teach you how to make a plasma orb. If you dont get the tutorial, read it thourougly and u will.



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-Create a document 500x500
-reset your colors
-set your gradient to difference

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Go crazy with your gradient until you get something similar to this.


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Filter Distort Wave


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Duplicate the layer and call it L1

Edit- Transform- Flip Horizontal
--Set layer to lighten


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Duplicate Layer L1 and call this SF1
--Edit Free Transform- FLIP VERTICAL
set to soft light


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Duplicate Layer SF1 and call this SF2
---Edit Free Transform Flip horizontal


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Flatten the whole image
--Filter Distort Polar Coordinates
-Polar To Rectangle


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Then duplicate the layer
- FIlter Blur Gaussion Blur
-2-4 blur radius

====Set Layer to ligten-gives shiney effect
FLATTEN IMAGE
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Create a color Balance Layer


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FLATTEN IMAGE


heres what i got in the end.

Nice! I might use this. :D

whoaaa, wicked. 0.0

Since i was too stupid to figure out you needed a higher version of PS, I followed a little bit of this, did some opposite things since when I put in -polar to rectangular- i got things that looked like n____n lol And i couldn't figure out how to do a color layer balance thingy, so i did a gradient mask or whatever it was and played with colors and blah! here's what I got after a few hours. ^___^ it was fun. Thanks and enjoy my crappy PS skills XD

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/Tia.../Untitled-1.png

It actually looks pretty cool